We are still in an overall bull market and many stocks that smart money investors were piling into surged through the end of November.
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December 2 - Hedge Funds, News
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
Is SunTrust Banks, Inc. (NYSE:STI) a buy, sell, or hold? Investors who are in the know are in an optimistic mood.
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March 29 - Hedge Funds, News
As we already know from media reports and hedge fund investor letters, many hedge funds lost money in October, blaming macroeconomic conditions and unpredictable events that hit...
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December 15 - Hedge Funds, News
Do you know which are the 16 biggest commercial banks in New York City? Let’s start with what is a commercial bank.
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February 2 - Lists, News
Like everyone else, elite investors make mistakes.
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November 24 - Hedge Funds, News
U.S. stocks are mixed in Friday trading, as oil tumbled and earnings have largely failed to impress.
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July 22 - Earnings Report, Market Movers, News
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.
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April 22 - Market Movers, News
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
SunTrust Banks Inc (NYSE:STI), with total assets of $183 billion as of June 30, 2014, is one of the nation's largest and strongest financial holding companies. Through its banking...
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January 20 - Earnings Report, News
Among the list of companies that released their earnings for the second quarter 2014 on July 21, 2014, included Hasbro, Inc.
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July 21 - Earnings Report, News
Motley Fool analyst Matt Koppenheffer sits down with Rick Engdahl for a side-of-desk interview about banks.
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September 17 - News
This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense, and which ones investors should act on.
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September 12 - News
When America was on the doorstep of the Roaring '20s and the birth of modern American consumerism, the predecessor to SunTrust Banks, Inc.
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September 12 - News
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 they have since the second quarter...
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September 11 - News
In the eyes of many market players, hedge funds are seen as bloated, old financial tools of an era lost to time.
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September 3 - News
The good news is that the number is shrinking. According to a new report from CoreLogic, there were a total of 49,000 completed foreclosures in July.
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September 2 - News
In the eyes of many traders, hedge funds are assumed to be bloated, outdated financial tools of an era lost to time.
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August 28 - News
Now, according to many investors, hedge funds are assumed to be useless, outdated financial vehicles of a period lost to current times.
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August 22 - News
Net interest margin, or NIM, takes the money a bank earns in interest from its loans and investments, subtracts the interest it pays out on its deposits, and divides the result...
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August 17 - News
This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense, and which ones investors should act on.
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August 12 - News
The good news is that the number is shrinking. According to a new report from CoreLogic, there were a total of 55,000 completed foreclosures in June.
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July 31 - News
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 sour as home prices fell...
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July 22 - News
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 Chase & Co.
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July 16 - News
Earlier this week, the regulators finally published the Basel III rules for U.S. banks.
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July 8 - News
PNC stock rushed up 19% during the current year. The bank faces a major decision.
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June 27 - News
Among America's bigger regional bankers, PNC Financial Services (NYSE:PNC) stock can probably claim claim its priciness as its biggest distinguishing factor.
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June 24 - News
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 start my investigation by just jumping...
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June 19 - News
Many regional banks in the US emerged stronger after the 2008 financial meltdown.
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June 19 - News
The recent announcement of a merger between two well-respected but decidedly local Virginia banks could have implications for thousands of investors beyond the state's borders...
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June 19 - News
The interest rate environment and loan growth are among the key determinants of the net interest margin of a bank.
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June 11 - News
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 15.8% year over year.
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June 11 - News
SunTrust Banks, Inc. (NYSE:STI) is the holding company and publicly traded side of SunTrust Bank, one of the country's biggest regional banks.
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June 11 - News
Even after substantial gains this year, a number of financial stocks still trade below book value.
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June 10 - News
To the average investor, there are plenty of gauges market participants can use to analyze stocks.
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May 24 - News
I'm a big fan of Peter Lynch, and one statement that he made always sticks with me.
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May 22 - News
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.
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May 22 - News
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:BAC) and Citigroup Inc...
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May 3 - News
SunTrust Banks, Inc. (NYSE:STI), State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT), and KeyCorp (NYSE:KEY) are among regional banks that have reported their first-quarter performances.
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April 28 - News
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 of the cheapest stocks in...
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April 22 - News
Standard & Poor's has a positive outlook for regional banks, as do I.
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April 17 - News
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 interest of late.
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March 27 - News
The fourth quarter results at some of the major US banks remained strong.
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March 26 - News
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 assets, good dividend yield...
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March 25 - News
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
To say it's been a busy two weeks for banks would be an understatement.
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March 18 - News
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 yesterday that the Fed...
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March 15 - News
It's been a long, tough ride for investors in Atlanta-based SunTrust Banks, Inc. (NYSE:STI) over the past couple of years.
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March 15 - News
During the boom of the U.S.
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March 13 - News