Friday, January 24, 2014

The Motley Fool: Is Bank of America Getting More Credit Than It Deserves?

Wall Street is usually a forward-looking sort of place, but investors may be taking it a bit far with Bank of America (NYSE: BAC  ) .

While the bank does indeed have substantial scope for improving its costs and taking advantage of higher rates, current valuations seem to factor in almost no risk that the bank won't succeed -- a rather high amount of faith in a company that really hasn't done a lot to earn it yet.

Bank of America definitely has more to gain from higher rates than Citigroup, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, or U.S. Bancorp, but investors have to assume that they will manage to cut costs and maintain credit discipline should they arrive. With that, JPMorgan and Wells Fargo continue to offer more upside in a "base case" scenario, but if everything goes right, Bank of America could continue to tick higher.

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Is Bank of America Getting More Credit Than It Deserves?

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