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Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)

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Royal Bank of Scotland At A Glance

Current Price: $10.20
Last Trade Time: 2/9/2010 4:02 PM
Open: $10.27
Previous Close: $9.89
Daily Range: $9.86 - $10.38
52-Week Range: $4.75 - $19.03
Volume: 580,949
Market Cap: $28.75B
P/E Ratio: 0.00
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Avatar DayJob (58.43) Submitted: 5/20/09 11:02 PM

One of this countries major economic contollers.

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Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)

Avatar adartmouth (23.42) Submitted: 11/09/09 2:49 PM

This company is toast and rightly so. The worlds biggest bailout is costing money this co doesn't have. the equity is toast as it is in a debt / death spiral due to bailout financing costs. maybe an ENORMOUS rights issue will save the stock from bankrupcy, but the equity will be diluted 5 to 1 or m...More

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Avatar gunterle (22.85) Submitted: 1/20/10 2:18 PM : Outperform Start Price: $11.90 RBS Score: -8.48

2010 is the year of the recovery of the banks

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Avatar jamespeer (96.83) Submitted: 1/09/10 4:36 PM : Underperform Start Price: $11.22 RBS Score: 2.26

What an absolutely worthless company. RBS are on life support, 84% government owned; they have made enough idiotic mistakes to make them bankrupt 100 times over. There is no doubt that the acquisition of Dutch bank ABN Amro was by far the worst in corporate history. In actual fact they paid £10BN CASH for a hell of a lot more in debt, which they added to their already enormous and horrific loan book, and continue to write off on a daily basis. Now their new CEO is a man with no financial background!? How is he supposed to take this already hopeless company in the right direction and ensure they remain competitive in this cut-throat industry?!

RBS have just sold off their asset management business to Aberdeen Asset Management; this business has the assets of most of Scotland’s ultra high net worth individuals under management. HSBC is about to acquire their remaining Asia assets, which reduces the number of corporate clients from almost 10,000 to 1,000, and they are now rounding up bidders for their commodities arm. All this may be good news in the short term for their cash flow, to ‘restructure their capital base’ (i.e. pay off mounting debts), but it gives them very little scope for growth going forward especially in the most dynamic Asia region.

To summarise, this is the worst bank I have ever known of, with the worst management, and the worst financials I have ever seen. I have no doubt that their losses will continue to mount (they have the worst loan book of all the UK & European banks by far), and they will continue to lag behind and lose market share to their main competitors. This is a zombie bank that got way too big for their boots, and is now suffering the consequences, enduring a slow and painful regression into obsolescence...

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Avatar nothingfunny (41.96) Submitted: 12/05/09 11:46 AM : Outperform Start Price: $10.96 RBS Score: -3.42

Buying betdowns and hoping for big returns longterm

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Avatar GunnarVagotis (95.71) Submitted: 11/30/09 1:16 AM : Underperform Start Price: $11.18 RBS Score: 6.70

on the hook for dubai. oops!

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Avatar martynanasi (99.11) Submitted: 11/27/09 10:35 AM : Outperform Start Price: $11.57 RBS Score: -9.39

Has 15 Billion exposure to dubai scenerio making it somewhat a risky play. Much of this will be priced in but still not played out fully on how it will be handled. I suspect that global govt banks will intervene to make sure economy doesn't get off track to far from sustained recovery. Any further credit ripples could have negative affects and be wildfire to recovery process.

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