Citigroup Inc. (C) Is About to Get Boring

Stable banks are in the best interests of everyone. And even though one could argue that being too big to fail has its advantages, like cheaper funding costs driven by the implied guarantee that such banks will never be allowed to fail, shareholder value can still be virtually, if not completely, destroyed in a bailout situation.

Luckily for Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C) investors, they have a CEO at the helm — Michael Corbat — who undesrtands the notion that the most important moves he can make are the ones that make the bank safely profitable and keep it healthy for shareholders and customers over the long term.

Fool contributor John Grgurich owns shares of Goldman Sachs, Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C), and JPMorgan Chase. Follow John’s dispatches from the not-so-muddy trenches of high-finance and big-banking on Twitter @TMFGrgurich. The Motley Fool recommends Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo. The Motley Fool owns shares of Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C), JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo.

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