7 Things You Need to Know About The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BK)

5. BoNY pays a decent dividend
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) may pay 2.4% — lovely for one of the big banks — but BoNY’s 1.8% is respectable, and easily beats B of A’s 0.3%, Citi’s 0.1%, and even Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS)‘ 1.3%.

6. Fabulous stress-test results
The Federal Reserve has just released the first results of its 2013 stress tests: The Tier 1 common-ratio results, which measures capital as a share of risk-weighted assets. This ratio tells you how well the bank would perform in a severe economic downturn.

The Fed’s minimum Tier 1 ratio is 5%, and BoNY’s was a whopping 13.2%, easily surpassing JPMorgan’s 6.3%, B of A’s 6.8%, Citi’s 8.3%, and even Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC)‘s 7%.

7. Increased asset-servicing and investment-management revenues
As increased post-crisis regulation begins to bite, and banks have to find new and less risky ways to make money, some — including Goldman and Citi — are turning to old standbys such as asset and investment management.

With a fourth-quarter 7% year-over-year increase in asset-servicing fees, and a 17% year-over-year increase in investment-management fees, The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (NYSE:BK) is taking making significant progress down this increasingly important revenue trail.

Final Foolish thought
There you have it — seven easy metrics to help get your head around The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (NYSE:BK), a big American bank that doesn’t get the attention it deserves.

The article 7 Things You Need to Know About BNY Mellon originally appeared on Fool.com and is written by John Grgurich.

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