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Surprise: BofA is Top Pick Among Financials

January 10, 2017

Last week, shares of Bank of America Corporation rose almost 3% to an eight-year high. The shares currently sell for around $23 – reflecting a gain of more than 40% since the 11/8/16 presidential election.

 

Yet, despite that meteoric rise in share value, analysts at Wells Fargo Securities just named Bank of America its top pick in the financial services industry for 2017. They think BofA shares still have more room to run. Wells Fargo also boosted the large-cap U.S. bank sector to ‘Overweight’. [What a difference a President-Elect can make!]

 

Fueling the optimism is ……  the potential for corporate tax reform and deregulation to boost earnings for financial firms.

 

For Q4 of 2016, Bank of America is expected to report EPS of 38 cents on revenue of $21 billion - year-over-year growth of 40% and 7%, respectively.