BB&T Corp (BBT)
A financial holding company that conducts its business operations through its subsidiary, Branch Banking & Trust Company. Its subsidiary provides a range of banking services to individuals & businesses, & offers loans to businesses & consumers.
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"have more than a third of their loans in commercial real estate and construction, a particularly vulnerable type of debt now that many building companies have no work"
http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/28/bank-assets-failing-markets-equities-loans.html?partner=yahootix
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Close too book value. seems to be doing well.
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Compared to the sector it's cheap and the balance sheet is in decent (not great) shape. They could be in a position to continue to pickup a few failed regional banks at bargain prices.
If they can maintain the dividend yield above the Treasury/TIPS rate than they should continue to look attractive from a value perspective.
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Today this stock shows promise as other banks falter. Bout banking time, BBT
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Mmm...banks...
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This account tracks the performance of the investment firm Ruane, Cunniff, and Goldfarb - the investment manager of Sequoia Fund.
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Financial stocks carry a P/E ratio of 22.4, and the so-called "recovery" has been especially strong in bank stocks. Therefore, I’m concentrating my shorting interest in the banking sector.
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Well run regional without legacy problems of bigger banks. Colonial BankGroup could make interesting acquisition - outgoing CEO said in December 2008 that they would be looking to expand and pick up banks on the cheap. Colonial may qualify.
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It making the move
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Bad sector
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very good regional bank should outdo big banks that are in trouble with Govt invtervention, and huge blocks of bad loans (C, BAC)
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STRONG, CONSERVATIVE REGIONAL BANK. THIS ONE WILL OUTPERFORM IN NEXT FEW YEARS,ONCE DUST SETTLES
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lots of room to grow
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Patients my young fool.
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EMA Cross and 50-day test
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This is a 30 dollar stock.. it was an obvious pick at 15 with at .47 cent dividend. It is slightly less attractive now that they have cut the dividend to .15 cents. However, it is very well managed, conservative, and will return dividends to normal levels after TARP is repaid and the economy begins to pick up. They will continue to grow through strategic M&A and lending....this is an easy pick.
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Don't look now, but I am about to jump on board with a bank. I know, I know, the stress test is just more the man behind the mirror crap that has been going on. But I think BBT is something different. For starters, a 7% dividend. With every bank in the country cutting their dividend, BBT could have jumped on board and done the same, in the name of cost savings and capital retention. But they didn't, then we learn that they are relatively strong coming out of the stress test. Now I know the stress test was akin to a second grade math test with a calculator, but they did really well. They have been a strong regional for a long time, and really appear to have dropped with the rest of the sector. If I am going to get in on a bank, this is the one I want to ride.
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BB&T was one of the few banks that kept its doors open during the Great Depression. If the financial institution maintains its solid conservative policies in residential markets, and ceases the practice of unrestrictive lending to the commercial sector, BB&T will fare better than most, if not all of its competitors.

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