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Equitable GroupEQB.TOCOMMENTMay 01, 2017
Paul Harris, CFAStock price when the opinion was issued
As of Jun 19, 2026. Market Open.
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One of the criteria we used is Total long-term debt to Total Equity less than 1.5x, and EQB does not meet those criteria.
However, we think EQB’s capital base is good, growth has been strong recently.
We like EQB and would be comfortable holding it for the long term.
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Don LatoHe thinks this mortgage lender has a dividend that is growing and trades at a low PE ratio. It is not a low risk company, as it makes loans to non-conventional borrowers. At this point in the market cycle, with high consumer debt, he would prefer to own a bank with larger market cap and higher liquidity. Yield 1.5%.
Very similar to Home Capital (HCG-T) in how they run things. The issue a lot of these companies face is that they are borrowing money at a retail level, which has hurt them a fair bit. Everybody worries about the mortgages, but those are probably fine. The problem is, they have to be funded and the funding is the bad part. If somebody doesn’t trust you when you are funding things, it becomes very difficult. That is exactly what happened in the US in 2008. (CEO just stated that there was no material decline in deposits, and they have just lined up a $2 billion standby credit facility, just in case.)