Meredith Whitney Is a Mere Mortal After All

摘要

Meredith A. Whitney, the bank analyst who jumped from obscurity to celebrity by correctly predicting that deteriorating finances would force Citigroup to cut its dividend in 2007, is having less success divining stock market winners and losers. Since Whitney founded her own firm last year, about two-thirds of her picks have fared worse than market indexes. Missed calls include Visa, the payments network that fell 14 percent from May 4, when Whitney named it her "single best buy," through Oct. 5, and credit-card issuer Capital One Financial, which tripled after she urged clients to sell.