As previously reported, Sandler O'Neill analyst Christopher Donat upgraded Ally Financial (ALLY) to Buy from Hold, stating that he believe Ally's (ALLY) near-prime auto finance book is "meaningfully less risky" than Santander Consumer's (SC) book or the unsecured credit cards of Discover (DFS) and Capital One (COF), yet all four stocks trade at similar multiples. He thinks Ally deserves a slight premium to these specialty finance peers and raised his price target on Ally shares to $33 from $29 while maintaining his 2019 and 2020 EPS estimates.

Barclays raised the firm's price target on Discover to $123 from $120 and keeps an Equal Weight rating on the shares. The company reported a solid Q1 beat and delinquencies are decelerating, the analyst tells investors in a research note.

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Reports Q1 revenue $1.99B, consensus $1.96B. "Ally's financial and operating results in Q1 reflect the strength and scale of our market leading franchises," said Interim CEO Doug Timmerman. "Our teammates remain focused on what we can control, caring for our customers and communities, and consistently executing against our strategic priorities, driving long-term shareholder value. Dealer financial services continues to demonstrate the benefits of its high-tech, high-touch approach as we decisioned a single quarter record 3.8 million consumer auto applications. Consumer originations totaled nearly $10B with 40% of retail auto volume coming from our highest credit quality tier, positioning us for very attractive risk-adjusted returns going forward. Within Insurance, earned premiums of $349M were also a record, and our comprehensive product suite resulted in new OEM relationships that will drive continued momentum in fee revenue."

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Notable companies reporting before tomorrow's open, with earnings consensus, include Blackstone (BX), consensus 96c... Elevance Health (ELV), consensus $10.53... D.R. Horton (DHI), consensus $3.06... Genuine Parts (GPC), consensus $2.16... Snap-on (SNA), consensus $4.64... Keycorp (KEY), consensus 22c... Ally Financial (ALLY), consensus 33c... Alaska Air (ALK), consensus ($1.05).