3 Financial Stocks More Than 20% Under Analyst Price Targets

By John Mylant: Earnings: 1-19-2012 Consensus Estimates: ($0.18)Earnings Whisper: $0.23Revenue Growth: Dec 2011- 5.70% March 2012- (10.60%)Analysts Recommendations: BuyMedian Target: 9.45

By Bret Jensen:The stock market has had a stellar start to the year. After a dismal 2011, the financial sector is one of the strongest performers in the market so far in January.

ByHeather Ingrassia:Deloitte's 2013 outlook for the US banking sector highlighted the fact that, "The banking environment for 2013 likely contains equal parts resolution of past challenges and the introduction of new ones.

By Jim Van Meerten: Back on November 18, 2011, I wrote an article titled: Bank of America (BAC): How Low Can You Go? Well I'm going out on a limb and ready to say we found out on December 19, 2011 that its low point was hit and the answer is 4.92.

By Dividend Kings:Bank of America (BAC) has been in bad shape for a while; ever since the Countrywide and Merrill Lynch acquisitions. Shares seemed to have recovered in 2010, only to reapproach the 2009 lows set at the depths of the recession.

By Bret Jensen:The market fell again Friday to end an ugly week. We still have no resolution to the debt ceiling issue and the situation in Europe continues to worsen. However, the recent pullback has put more stocks into “bargain” territory. Here are three stocks under $15 a share with low valuations that are worth considering:

*This is the first post in a series of blogs about financial service companies and their efforts to serve the unbanked and underbanked population in the United States.

Bret Jensen submits:As we look for bargains in a market that continues to grind higher, a good place to begin is in those stocks that have significantly underperformed the overall indexes. Here are three stocks that have underperformed the S&P (SPY) by 10% or more year to date and are under their price targets by at least 25%.