The answer appears to be “maybe, but no one cares”? The numbers probably look good because they don’t do any i-banking/trading to speak of, or anything that takes much leverage (if any). They are slow and steady, which has been a good thing lately.

bny’s money market broke the buck last week so take the list for what it is worth.

Jones only uses leverage to grow their infrastructure, not to invest and generate profits.  They also use some to put bonds into inventory for client sales, but mostly for infrastructure.  Not good or bad, just the way they do business.  EDJ is pretty much the same as how most brokerage firms would look if they spun off their B/D’s into their own firms (in other words, there was no I-Banking, etc.).

And to think there were many, many people on this board who said Jones would fail because they would have capital problems. It’s interesting during these times where many, many firms ARE struggling with their capital requirements that there has only been 3 responses in this thread. The silence is deafening!!!

B24,
I guess you have your answer on RayJay.  See the lead on this website.  Bet this pisses off that loser bspears.  I know he thinks the more he prays EJ fails the more likely it should be to happen.  I feel for him.  It must be disappointing.  Primo, I know I owe you a response, I have been a bit busy working.  I promise I will get back.  Doing the ACAT’s in has been a bit more important.

Yes, nobody wants to admit that EDJ might, just MIGHT be OK.  We are JUUUST going to squeek by with capital.

Brokerage Firm Capital Multiple

Edward Jones 19.90

Bank of New York Mellon (Pershing) 15.80

T. Rowe Price 13.98

Scottrade 13.86

OptionsXpress 12.65

Raymond James 11.92

Merrill Lynch 8.62

Fidelity 7.93

Bank of America Securities 5.97

ING Direct 5.85

Schwab 5.85

Lehman Brothers 5.43

E Trade 5.00

TD Ameritrade 4.72

Citi Smith Barney 4.06

Goldman Sachs 3.90

Morgan Stanley 3.21