JPMorgan Stock a Value: Seymour

Playing JPMorgan Into Earnings

Last week provided clues how to play JPMorgan ahead of Wednesday's earnings, EmergingMoney.com's Tim Seymour says.

JPMorgan shares ahead of earnings offer significant value, EmergingMoney.com's Tim Seymour said Tuesday on CNBC.

For a clue into how the stock will perform when the banking giant reports quarterly earnings on Wednesday, Seymour looked to last week: "The Wells Fargonumbers gave a great read-through."

On "Fast Money," he also said that the mortgage business was "conservatively priced into people's expectations."

"In terms of the growth, the surprise is in the upside – not in the fourth-quarter numbers, but next year," he said, adding that anecdotal evidence from talking to contacts on Wall Street suggests that bank stocks probably bottomed in the third quarter.

"I think all the doom and gloom over capital markets has seen its worst," he added.

StockMonster's Guy Adami liked Goldman Sachs, recalling that he had said in December that "GS is something you probably should own into the earnings release." Since that call, the stock has rallied some $20.

"I don't know what's going to happen post-earnings," he said. "I think all bets are off after tomorrow.

"What I could see happening in GS specifically is a couple-dollars rally, then a late-day sell-off, and that marks the top of the short-term, at least in GS."

Trader disclosure: On Jan. 15, 2013, the following stocks and commodities mentioned or intended to be mentioned on CNBC's "Fast Money" were owned by the "Fast Money" traders: Tim Seymour is long AAPL; Tim Seymour is long BAC; Tim Seymour is long CSCO; Tim Seymour is long SBUX; Karen Finerman is long AAPL; Karen Finerman is long BAC; Karen Finerman is long C; Karen Finerman is long JPM; Karen Finerman is long WMT; Karen Finerman is long TGT; Karen Finerman is long MSFT; Karen Finerman is long GOOG; Karen Finerman is long M; Karen Finerman is short SPY; Guy Adami is long C; Guy Adami is long GS; Guy Adami is long AGU; Guy Adami is long MSFT; Guy Adami is long NUE; Guy Adami is long BTU; Keith McCullough is long AAPL; Keith McCullough is long GDX; Keith McCullough is long GLD; Keith McCullough is long TLT;

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