Investopedia: Zions Bancorp Will Likely Find It Harder From Here

One of the biggest trends in bank stocks over the past 18 months or so has been the relative outperformance of bank stocks where the predominant theme was cleaning up the balance sheet and simplifying the business. Investors in banks like Bank of America (NYSE:BAC), Synovus (Nasdaq:SNV), and Zions Bancorp (Nasdaq:ZION) have all beaten the market by a healthy margin over the past year, but the question is how much more juice there is to be squeezed from that orange. In the case of Zions, for instance, there's ample scope to reduce funding costs, but fierce competition in lending could delay the progression of real earnings and ROE improvement.

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