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: Absent Higher Rates, Comerica Has Probably Gone Far Enough

Comerica (NYSE: CMA ) is a curious bank in multiple respects. Although it has a sizable commercial loan book, the net interest margin isn...

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...

Seeking Alpha: Eagle Bancorp Could Be A Long-Term Love Story

This may be the early stages of a banking love story, or at least a crush, and it goes to show that sometimes the process of digging up in...

Seeking Alpha: CenterState Bank An Odd Mix Of Performance Potential And Iffy Valuation

Bank stock investing is not for the investor who likes things neat, tidy, and easy. Although the basic operation of banking is simple in t...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...