Hot Financial Stocks To Watch Right Now

tags:PNBK,WRI,KKR,FCCO,VA, &l;p&g;With many Americans reviewing their financial situation after the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, it is important that any life insurance needs are also reviewed at this time. The reality is that many people do not think about life insurance as a financial asset and don&a;rsquo;t review their life insurance needs frequently enough. Individual life insurance policies consist of over $12 trillion in the United States. But many Americans are not well informed about their life insurance needs, policy specifics, or planning options. As your finances change, as your family grows, or when laws change, it is important to review your existing life insurance and to see if you have a heightened need for any more insurance.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act made significant changes that impact the use of life insurance as an estate protection vehicle and modified the tax ramifications of selling a life insurance policy on the secondary market as part of a life settlement. From a fundamental life insurance planning standpoint, these changes reduced the need for some individuals to have life insurance to protect an estate from federal estate taxes and improved the tax situation surrounding the sale of a life insurance policy.

Hot Financial Stocks To Watch Right Now: Patriot National Bancorp Inc.(PNBK)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Shane Hupp]

  Patriot National Bancorp (NASDAQ: PNBK) and Community Bank, N.A. (NYSE:CBU) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Hot Financial Stocks To Watch Right Now: Weingarten Realty Investors(WRI)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Stephan Byrd]

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Hot Financial Stocks To Watch Right Now: KKR(KKR)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Motley Fool Staff]

  KKR (NYSE:KKR) Q1 2018 Earnings Conference CallMay. 3, 2018 11:00 a.m. ET

  Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks:

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• [By Benzinga News Desk]

  KKR & Co. (NYSE: KKR) will pay $8.3 billion to buy BMC Software, sources said — marking the buyout shop’s biggest acquisition in years: Link

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  Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) : "I'm a buyer. I've respected them for generations. "

  Mitek Systems (MITK) : "This one is too speculative for me. I'd buy NVIDIA (NVDA) ."

• [By Tim Melvin]

  Henry McVey, a macroeconomist over at KKR & Co. LP (NYSE: KKR) who's been pretty accurate over the past few years, thinks we'll see six more rate hikes in 2018 and 2019. Guggenheim Partners predicts a whopping seven rate hikes, which would put the federal funds rate at 3.50% by the end of 2019.

Hot Financial Stocks To Watch Right Now: First Community Corporation(FCCO)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Logan Wallace]

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• [By Shane Hupp]

  First Community (NASDAQ:FCCO) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday. The bank reported $0.35 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.31 by $0.04, Fidelity Earnings reports. The business had revenue of $11.17 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $10.83 million. First Community had a net margin of 13.91% and a return on equity of 8.23%.

Hot Financial Stocks To Watch Right Now: First Capital Bancorp Inc.(VA)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Peter Graham]

  A long term performance chart shows JetBlue Airways Corporation giving a good performance that��s still not as good as that of large cap Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE: LUV) while the performance of�Alaska Air Group, Inc (NYSE: ALK), which has acquired Virgin America Inc (NASDAQ: VA), seems to have slipped recently: