Investopedia: Societe Generale Continues To Clean Up Its Act

The stocks of U.S. banks like Bank of America (NYSE: BAC ) and Citigroup (NYSE: C ), not to mention smaller regional players like Zions (...

Investopedia: Bank Of America Brings The Growth

Nobody likes to be wrong, but I have to admit that I have significantly underestimated just how willing investors would be to pay up for Ba...

Investopedia: JPMorgan Seeing Strong Credit, But Iffy Growth Momentum

The expectation for most banks this year has been that core growth will be challenging given low rates and competitive lending markets. Tho...

Seeking Alpha: Commerce Bancshares Starts The Season With A "Meh"

Surprises at banks seem to skew to the negative much more often than to the positive, so a relatively dull quarter in not such a bad result...

Investopedia: Valuation Is Finally Reasonable At FactSet, But Growth Is Now A Concern

For much of its history as a public company, FactSet (NYSE: FDS ) shares have frustrated the value and GARP crowds. Now the shares look mo...

Investopedia: Cost Discipline Driving The Story At PNC Financial

Sometimes it seems like the markets are against you as an investor. While PNC Financial (NYSE: PNC ) issued a strong first quarter report, ...

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 predo...

Investopedia: Simpler Looks Better For First Horizon

It was all too common during the bubble years that began almost a decade ago to see quality community or regional banks de-prioritize their...

Investopedia: Investors Seem To Be Overrating Bank Of America

Few large bank stocks have come close to the market performance of Bank of America (NYSE: BAC ) over the past year. While some of that app...

Investopedia: Citigroup Looking More Like A Normal Big Bank These Days

With its first full quarter with new CEO Michael Corbat in charge now in the books, Citigroup (NYSE: C ) continues to make progress toward...

Investopedia: Commerce Bancshares Growing Its Balance Sheet, But Profits Are Harder To Come By

When a bank has significantly below-average funding costs and non-performing assets, and didn't have to take a dime of TARP money, it...

Investopedia: Core Growth At Wells Fargo Is Weak, But The Multiple Doesn't Look Demanding

During bull markets, investors typically prize growth more than anything and that would seem to explain a lot of the relative valuations I...