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Industry Focus

Financials: Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, And A Look at Commercial Banking

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4.6854 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In part three of our banking series, Industry Focus: Financials dives into commercial banking and the two largest U.S. commercial banks – Wells Fargo and U.S. Bancorp.

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Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

0:24.4

It's Monday, February 12th, and we are talking about investing in commercial banks.

0:28.2

I'm your host, Michael, and I'm joined as per usual by Matt Frankel.

0:32.4

Now, before we get started and get into the nitty gritty

0:34.8

this is part three of our three-part series on Big American Banks. Part one was our

0:39.5

December 11th episode breaking down the investment banks, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

0:43.8

Part 2 was our January 29th episode breaking down Universal Banks, Bank of America, Citigroup,

0:48.1

and J.P. Morgan.

0:49.2

Now we're in part 3, commercial banks.

0:51.6

That's Wells Fargo and U.S. Bankor. We'll be running these

0:55.2

banks through the same framework that we did the first two sets. Onon Chockeolu, the Pool.

1:03.5

Com's Managing Editor, wrote a great piece, I really call it my banking viable back in 2014.

1:10.4

It's his best attempt at a framework for how to understand a bank stock.

1:14.0

It's a great accompaniment to this episode because we'll be following that framework throughout.

1:18.0

Shoot me an email at industry focus at fool.com if you need the link and if you don't have it,

1:22.0

because it really helps I think kind of

1:25.3

of tie everything we're talking through together.

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