Seeking Alpha: Hancock Holding Needs To Marry Better Performance With Its Good Footprint

While speculating on where people are going to want to live in five, 10, or 20 years' time may be enjoyable as a thought-exercise, it...

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: Weak Profits Don't Help The Case For U.S. Bancorp

Bank stock investors don't seem so concerned with quality these days as they do near-term growth prospects, and that's bad news for...

Investopedia: Citigroup Continues The Theme Of Decent Big Bank Earnings

Not to be left behind by JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM ) and Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC ), Citigroup (NYSE: C ) announced a respectable set of results...

Investopedia: Wells Fargo Managing The Slowdown Quite Well

Like it's larger rival JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM ), Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC ) delivered a solid, better-than-expected second quarter on Frid...

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...

Investopedia: U.S. Bancorp Is Strong But Needs Growth

This earning season is starting to feel like a broken record, or at least for the high-quality banks. Economic uncertainty has led many wo...

Investopedia: Comerica Looks Like A Slow-Coiling Spring

With interest rates so low, loan demand pretty sluggish, and regulations chewing into once-lucrative sources of income, most banks are stuc...

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: Credit Comes To The Rescue, As JPMorgan Sees Soft Core Banking Results

Maybe today's banking environment isn't quite “famine” on the feast-or-famine scale, but with results in hand from Wells Fargo (NYS...

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...