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Portfolio Killer #5: JPMorgan Chase

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This may be the first place you read about JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) being a zombie.

It speaks, and occasionally thinks, but it holds toxic mortgages, specifically something called option adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs), it acquired when it bought Washington Mutual.

The company's ability to grow will be constrained for three to five years minimum.

True shareholder value: considerably less than its current price

Michael Shulman is a contributor to OptionsZone.com.

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Last updated: November 28, 2009: 03:24 AM

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