Stock Spotlight: Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC)
This week's Stock Spotlight is NYSE-listed Bank of America Corp.
About Bank of America Corp.
Bank of America Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides banking and financial products and services for individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses, institutional investors, large corporations, and governments worldwide. It operates in four segments: Consumer Banking, Global Wealth & Investment Management (GWIM), Global Banking, and Global Markets. The Consumer Banking segment offers traditional and money market savings accounts, certificates of deposit and IRAs, non-interest and interest-bearing checking accounts, and investment accounts and products; credit and debit cards; residential mortgages, and home equity loans; and direct and indirect loans, such as automotive, recreational vehicle, and consumer personal loans. The GWIM segment provides investment management, brokerage, banking, and trust and retirement products and services; wealth management solutions; and customized solutions, including specialty asset management services. The Global Banking segment offers lending products and services, including commercial loans, leases, commitment facilities, trade finance, and commercial real estate and asset-based lending; treasury solutions, such as treasury management, foreign exchange, short-term investing options, and merchant services; working capital management solutions; debt and equity underwriting and distribution, and merger-related and other advisory services; and fixed-income and equity research, and certain market-based services. The Global Markets segment provides market-making, financing, securities clearing, settlement, and custody services; securities and derivative products; and risk management products using interest rate, equity, credit, currency and commodity derivatives, foreign exchange, fixed-income, and mortgage-related products. Bank of America Corporation was founded in 1784 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Source: Yahoo Finance
Key Stats
Key Stats
Source: Yahoo Finance, Market Watch, Bloomberg. Data as of 05/08/24.
Price Performance
Growth Potential
- Leveraged to the improving economic conditions and activity in the U.S.
- Improving operating leverage.
- Significant leverage to the yield curve steepening in the U.S.
- Cost out program to support earnings over the long-term.
- Revenue growth driven by consumer and business.
- Credit quality is very strong, with further reserve releases possible.
- Capital position is well above requirement level and management’s desired buffer, which opens up capital management initiatives.
- Positive changes to the regulatory environment.
Key Risks
- Further decline in net interest margins from low yields and U.S. Fed interest rate cuts.
- Intense competition to loan growth.
- Subdued economic growth or a shallow/deep recession.
- Funding pressures for deposits and wholesale funding.
- Political and regulatory changes affecting the banking legislation.
- Credit risk with potential default of mortgages, personal and business loans and credit cards.
- Efficiency gains disappoint relative to market expectations.
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