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GDAI6A Major thankies for the article. Really Cool.
By: | Oct 26, 2013 | Report Comment
.A Tour of Western Banks Brett Rabatin Sterne, Agee And Leach, Inc.On Wednesday March 10, 2010, 10:09 am EST67 WALL STREET, New York March 10, 2010 The Wall Street Transcript has just published its Pacific & Southwest Regional Banks Report offireng a timely review of the sector to serious investors and industry executives.In the following brief excerpt from the 37 page report, Brett Rabatin discusses the outlook for the Banking sector and for investors .TWST: Where are you focusing your attention these days in the Pacific and Southwest bank space? Mr. Rabatin: In the Pacific Northwest, it's an area of the country where the economy is still pretty weak. There is a lot of expectation the area may lag into a recovery. So the investment ideas the past few quarters have been predicated more on FDIC-assisted transactions and the potential benefit of those. We're still early in the innings of FDIC receivership and bank failures, particularly in Washington State. But it's a changing environment where investors have to be a little more guarded about how they think these transactions will transpire, particularly as it relates to asset discounts on assisted transactions. At one point, the discounts were good enough to maybe help at least partially fund the transactions. Now they're just a lot cheaper than your typical M And A transaction. We're seeing a few deals, particularly for the core-funded banks, where there is a 4% to 6% discount on assets. I think that level may continue to even get more competitive. We may see some goodwill booked on a few of these. Nevertheless, the opportunity for consolidators and for banks, like Umpqua (UMPQ), which is neutral -rated, and Washington Federal (WFSL), which is buy -rated, is to increase their market share and to get back to more normalized EPS sometime if not in late 2011, during 2012 with lower credit costs. Rate this comment: 0 0
By: | Aug 05, 2012 | Report Comment
Touchdown! That's a rellay cool way of putting it!
By: | Jan 27, 2012 | Report Comment
Touchdown! That's a rellay cool way of putting it!
By: | Jan 27, 2012 | Report Comment
this piece is quite engaging. warm colors. it's inviting.
By: | Apr 07, 2009 | Report Comment
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