Seeking Alpha: Old Faithful Portfolio Recovery Associates Does It Again

The kind of performance Portfolio Recovery Associates ( PRAA ) delivers just doesn't get boring. Although debt recovery is not a well...

Investopedia: BB&T In Good Shape With Credit, But Growth Is Iffy

Southeast regional bank BB&T (NYSE: BBT ) definitely got the memo this quarter about the themes being higher fee income and lower cre...

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: 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: Challenging Conditions And Conservatism Keeping U.S. Bancorp In Bargain Territory

Larger banks, particularly well-run companies like U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB ), haven't been at the top of most investors' buy lists...

Investopedia: Fifth Third Is One Of The Few Banks With Positive Levers To Pull

On the whole, banks are pretty fully-valued right now. There are a few worthwhile buys here and there, but the sector as a whole has recove...

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: Mediocre Performance Clouding BB&T's Long-Term Value

The management of BB&T (NYSE: BBT ) once enjoyed a pretty sterling reputation for their performance, but a variety of missteps seem t...

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: 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: 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...

Investopedia: Global Payments Still Feeling An Uncomfortable Squeeze

Life still isn't easy in the narrow space between merchants and banks. Regulators have taken a much sharper pen to the fees that many p...