We are still in an overall bull market and many stocks that smart money investors were piling into surged through the end of November. Among them, Facebook...
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December 2 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
The latest 13F reporting period has come and gone, and Insider Monkey is again at the forefront when it comes to making use of this gold mine of data....
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October 10 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Is SunTrust Banks, Inc. (NYSE:STI) a buy, sell, or hold? Investors who are in the know are in an optimistic mood. The number of long hedge fund bets went...
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March 29 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
As we already know from media reports and hedge fund investor letters, many hedge funds lost money in October, blaming macroeconomic conditions and unpredictable...
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December 15 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Do you know which are the 16 biggest commercial banks in New York City? Let’s start with what is a commercial bank. A commercial bank is an institution...
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February 2 - Lists, News - Comments
Like everyone else, elite investors make mistakes. Some of their top consensus picks, such as Valeant and SunEdison, have not done well during the last...
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November 24 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
U.S. stocks are mixed in Friday trading, as oil tumbled and earnings have largely failed to impress. Among the companies that reported their financial...
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July 22 - Earnings Report, Market Movers, News - Comments
Although earnings season is in full swing, the broader markets are strangely quiet. The VIX is below 14, and the S&P futures are flat. Among the stocks...
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April 22 - Market Movers, News - Comments
SunTrust Banks, Inc. (NYSE:STI) has added itself to the list of companies that are posting better-than-expected quarterly results this reporting season...
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July 17 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Below is the transcript of the SunTrust Banks Inc (NYSE:STI)’s Q4 2014 Earnings conference call, held on January 16th, 2015 at 8:00 a.m. EST. &...
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January 20 - Earnings Report, News - Comments
Among the list of companies that released their earnings for the second quarter 2014 on July 21, 2014, included Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAS), Halliburton...
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July 21 - Earnings Report, News - Comments
Motley Fool analyst Matt Koppenheffer sits down with Rick Engdahl for a side-of-desk interview about banks. Are they really that hard to understand? Can...
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September 17 - News - Comments
This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense, and which ones investors should act on. Today, our headlines...
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September 12 - News - Comments
When America was on the doorstep of the Roaring ’20s and the birth of modern American consumerism, the predecessor to SunTrust Banks, Inc. (NYSE...
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September 12 - News - Comments
Here’s one reason to be positive about the ongoing economic recovery: Banks are setting aside less money in expectation of future loan losses than...
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September 11 - News - Comments
Is Credicorp Ltd. (USA) (NYSE:BAP) a good investment? In the eyes of many market players, hedge funds are seen as bloated, old financial tools of an...
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September 3 - News - Comments
There are few statistics that better illustrate our economic travails over the last few years than the number of homes that continue to be foreclosed...
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September 2 - News - Comments
In the eyes of many traders, hedge funds are assumed to be bloated, outdated financial tools of an era lost to time. Although there are over 8,000 hedge...
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August 28 - News - Comments
PNC Financial Services (NYSE:PNC) is an interesting play on the financial industry because of its diversity. Apparently hedge funds think so too. Now,...
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August 22 - News - Comments
Ask any investor to name key ratios and metrics for evaluating a bank, and you’ll probably find net interest margin on his or her list. Net interest...
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August 17 - News - Comments
This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense, and which ones investors should act on. Today, our headlines...
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August 12 - News - Comments
Few statistics better illustrate our economic travails over the last few years than the number of homes that continue to be foreclosed upon on a monthly...
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July 31 - News - Comments
The southeastern part of the U.S., specifically Florida and Alabama, was especially hard-hit by the 2008 recession, and as a result, many banks saw loans...
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July 22 - News - Comments
Earnings season is underway, and the center of attention will shift to the banking sector during the week of July 15. Last Friday, banking giants JPMorgan...
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July 16 - News - Comments
Earlier this week, the regulators finally published the Basel III rules for U.S. banks. It is widely believed that the rules were in line with investor...
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July 8 - News - Comments
PNC Financial Services (NYSE:PNC), the second largest U.S regional bank not only faces stiff competition due to industry consolidation but tough economic...
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June 27 - News - Comments
Among America’s bigger regional bankers, PNC Financial Services (NYSE:PNC) stock can probably claim claim its priciness as its biggest distinguishing...
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June 24 - News - Comments
SunTrust Banks, Inc. (NYSE:STI) is one of the largest regional banks and it appears that the dark cloud of the financial crisis could be moving away,...
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June 24 - News - Comments
Fellow Fools, when I run across a company I might be interested in as an investment — one that I know next to nothing about — I typically...
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June 19 - News - Comments
Many regional banks in the US emerged stronger after the 2008 financial meltdown. However, as the unwinding of Quantitative Easing (QE) unfolds, these...
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June 19 - News - Comments
The recent announcement of a merger between two well-respected but decidedly local Virginia banks could have implications for thousands of investors beyond...
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June 19 - News - Comments
The interest rate environment and loan growth are among the key determinants of the net interest margin of a bank. Due to low interest rates and macroeconomic...
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June 11 - News - Comments
According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Commission, U.S. banks earned profits of $40.3 billion in the first quarter of 2013, which showed growth of...
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June 11 - News - Comments
SunTrust Banks, Inc. (NYSE:STI) is the holding company and publicly traded side of SunTrust Bank, one of the country’s biggest regional banks. SunTrust...
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June 11 - News - Comments
Even after substantial gains this year, a number of financial stocks still trade below book value. While not covered back in January along with the insurers...
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June 10 - News - Comments
SunTrust Banks, Inc. (NYSE:STI) shareholders have witnessed a decrease in activity from the world’s largest hedge funds of late. To the average...
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May 24 - News - Comments
I’m a big fan of Peter Lynch, and one statement that he made always sticks with me. He said that his stock picking method was all about turning...
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May 22 - News - Comments
When I came across U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB) last year, I couldn’t believe that I had been ignoring one of the best big banks in the country. The...
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May 22 - News - Comments
In recent weeks, Wall Street has gained an attraction for the regional banks in addition to popular money center banks such as Bank of America Corp (NYSE...
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May 3 - News - Comments
SunTrust Banks, Inc. (NYSE:STI), State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT), and KeyCorp (NYSE:KEY) are among regional banks that have reported their first-...
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April 28 - News - Comments
If you sort the stocks on the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:GSPC) by price-to-earnings ratio, one thing becomes immediately obvious: Financial companies are some...
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April 22 - News - Comments
Standard & Poor’s has a positive outlook for regional banks, as do I. These banks tend to have less exposure to international concerns and...
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April 17 - News - Comments
SunTrust Banks, Inc. (NYSE:STI) was in 37 hedge funds’ portfolio at the end of the fourth quarter of 2012. STI has seen a decrease in hedge fund...
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March 27 - News - Comments
The fourth quarter results at some of the major US banks remained strong. The overall aggregate earnings were down moderately from the linked quarter...
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March 26 - News - Comments
When it comes to banks to invest in for the long-run, few of the big banks fit the traditional criteria of what investors look for: stability, low-risk...
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March 25 - News - Comments
With some fanfare, the Federal Reserve’s “Stress Tests” have been released as concerned to the nation’s largest bank holding companies...
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March 20 - News - Comments
To say it’s been a busy two weeks for banks would be an understatement. At the end of last week, the Federal Reserve released the results of this...
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March 18 - News - Comments
The changes that the Federal Reserve made to its annual stress tests worked out very well for American Express Company (NYSE:AXP), which announced late...
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March 15 - News - Comments
It’s been a long, tough ride for investors in Atlanta-based SunTrust Banks, Inc. (NYSE:STI) over the past couple of years. After a disastrous 2011...
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March 15 - News - Comments
During the boom of the U.S. banking system during the previous decade, investors were rewarded with hefty capital gains and massive chunks of cash in...
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March 13 - News - Comments