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—Price / book
Market cap
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Tangible equity (USD)
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Price / tangible book
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Price / book
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Net income / ending equity
25.3%
Net income / ending assets
3.1%
Efficiency ratio
247.6%
Compare price, profitability, solvency, and SEC-reported financials side by side—before deciding which assumptions deserve a closer look.
Decision snapshot: DFS stock price vs WEX: inconclusive Relative valuation is incomplete for this pair. Review the available filing metrics before drawing a conclusion.
Quick read
Each company valued on the other's multiple, then compared with the market price.
Implied fair value · at WEX's multiple
Needs WEX P/E.
Implied fair value · at DFS's multiple
Needs DFS P/E.
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Profitability edge
Asset efficiency edge
Lower is better
Statements
Reported bank earnings and balances, with each company’s reporting period shown.
Values retain reported currencies and share bases. Select a figure to inspect its period, calculation and filing inputs. Differences require compatible units and periods.
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Trendline
Nine period-end years of reported revenue, earnings, and margins. Periods and currencies are shown with the data.
Price framework
Tangible book and profitability anchor a bank, not enterprise value.
Deposits and cash-like balances distort enterprise value for banks, so this section reads equity value, tangible book and profitability instead.
Price / book
Market cap
—
Tangible equity (USD)
—
Price / tangible book
—
Price / book
—
Net income / ending equity
25.3%
Net income / ending assets
3.1%
Efficiency ratio
247.6%
Price / book
Market cap
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Tangible equity (USD)
-$2.87B
Price / tangible book
—
Price / book
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Net income / ending equity
24.6%
Net income / ending assets
2.1%
Efficiency ratio
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Price framework
The same filing-backed model used on each company's valuation page, with company-specific inputs and calculated scenarios.
DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES · implied price per share
Bank model off — standard DCF modelling is disabled for financial institutions.
WEX Inc. · implied price per share
Bear
$147.51
Base
$171.74
Bull
$203.28
Balance sheet health
Inspect reported liquidity and leverage alongside historical financial-health checks.
Financial strength on a 0–9 scale.
Bankruptcy-risk signal from balance sheet and earnings power.
Not enough data to score either balance sheet.
Cash excludes investments. EBITDA is an operating-income-plus-D&A proxy. Missing borrowing categories remain unavailable; select a value to inspect its inputs.
Comparable set
Where the pair sits against the wider banking comparable set.
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LLM-powered synthesis
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If you believe DFS can sustain its 12.2% revenue growth and 30.3% operating margin, then favor DFS over WEX because DFS is more profitable, faster growing, and less levered on debt/equity.
The comparison suggests DFS deserves a higher valuation than WEX on operating quality, but the provided data does not include DFS’s live market price or DFS-specific multiples, so the actual gap cannot be precisely measured. WEX-implied range of $188.74 to $801.54 and DCF range of $494.54 to $669.09 both indicate a wide valuation band, limiting conviction in a clear upside or downside call.
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