Top Regional Bank Companies To Watch In Right Now

Top Regional Bank Companies To Watch In Right Now: TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation(AMTD)

TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides securities brokerage services and technology-based financial services to retail investors, traders, and independent registered investment advisors (RIAs) in the United States. The company?s offerings include TD Ameritrade for self-directed retail investors; TD Ameritrade Institutional, which provides brokerage and custody services to independent RIAs and their clients; thinkorswim that offers a suite of trading platforms serving self-directed and institutional traders, and money managers; and Investools, which provides investor education products and services for stock, option, foreign exchange, futures, mutual fund, and fixed-income investors. Its offerings also include Amerivest, an online advisory service that develops portfolios of exchange-traded funds to enable long-term investors pursue their financial goals; and TD Ameritrade Corporate Services, which provides self-directed brokerage services to employees and executives of corporations. In addition, the company offers various products and services, such as common and preferred stocks; exchange-traded funds; a range of option trades, including complex, multi-leg option strategies; futures trades in various commodities, stock indices, and currencies; and foreign exchange products. Further, it provides mutual funds; treasury, corporate, government agency, and municipal bonds; mortgage-backed securities and certificates of deposit; new issue securities; margin lending; and cash management services. Additionally, the company offers trustee, custodial, and other trust-related services to retirement plans; and cash sweep and deposit account products through third-party relationships. It provides its products and services through the Internet, network of retail branches, mobile trading applications, and interactive voice response and registered representatives via telephone. The com! pany was founded in 1971 and is headquart ered in Omaha, Nebraska.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Jayson Derrick]

  Online brokers are seeing declines almost across the board as the market continues to focus on their practice of getting paid for order flow (PFOF). U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating insider trading and high frequency trading. According to Goldman Sachs analyst Alexander Blostein, E*Trade Financial (NASDAQ: ETFC) earns $92 million or $0.17 in EPS from PFOF while Charles Schwab (NASDAQ: SCHW) earns less than $100 million or $0.08 EPS from its PFOF. TD Ameritrade (NYSE: AMTD) earns $227 million or $0.23 from PFOF. Shares of E*Trade lost 7.83 percent, closing at $20.43, Schwab lost 4.79 percent, closing at $26.06 and TD Ameritrade lost 4.22 percent, closing at $30.67.

• [By Matt Koppenheffer]

  For Vanguard, the top-ranked online broker in the world according to this report, that's good news -- a happy customer is a loyal customer. It's likewise good news for competitors like TD AMERITRADE (NYSE: AMTD  ) -- which ranked No. 2 for its thinkorswim service and No. 8 for its main platform -- Charles Schwab (NYSE: SCHW  ) (No. 3), andInteractive Brokers (NASDAQ: IBKR  ) (No. 4 for its U.S. operations, No. 5 for its offering in Germany).

• [By Dan Caplinger]

  In order to encourage greater investor participation, Schwab recently boosted its presence in the red-hot exchange-traded fund market. Schwab pioneered commission-free ETF investing more than three years ago, but since then, rivals had cut into Schwab's minimalist lineup of proprietary ETFs with broader deals. TD AMERITRADE (NYSE: AMTD  ) had issued a lineup of more than 100 no-commission ETFs from various fund families, drawing investors interested in greater variety of funds. In response, Schwab came out with its ETF OneSource platform, topping TD Ameritrade with 1! 05 ETFs.

• [By Morgan Housel]

  Overexposed
  TD AMERITRADE (NYSE: AMTD  ) clientshad a big exposure to Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL  ) stock on margin:

  One-third of the multi-billion dollar margin balances at TD Ameritrade are in accounts that have more than 25 percent market exposure to Apple.

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