Bank of America (BAC) Buy, Sell or Hold

Bank of America (BAC)

56.25

+0.05 (0.09%)

as of Jun 18, 2026, 10:42:05 pm Market Open.

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DON'T BUY

It looks like most of the US banks are ready to break out of their funk. What you don't know is what is lurking in the weeds on the balance sheet.

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DON'T BUY

Even insiders don’t have a complete handle on where they are today in the US banks. He discounts this into the price he is willing to pay for a US bank. The franchise over the long term has great promise. He would go elsewhere, such as insurance.

BUY

If US housing turns around this bank will do well. This is a core way to play it. Has no problem going in right now.

TOP PICK

Best franchise in the US. Deals they have done with Country Wide and Merryl will work out over a longer period of time. Risk is mashing together an investment bank with a retail bank effectively. Buy it here or on a pull back – we have a tough time in September.

DON'T BUY

Some real serious problems both in assets it acquired during the credit crisis and in its own assets in commercial real estate. Wouldn't go into any of the US banks at the moment. Wait for a couple of quarters to be sure that all the loans that have been reserved for are written off.

HOLD

Trading at a significant discount to its underlying value. BV is at around $30. $3 normalized earnings per share isn't out of the question. This is his only holding in US banks.

TOP PICK

It has been quite volatile. Buy now and sell December $19 Call options. Options are quite rich and very liquid. It is an interesting play. Risk is that the stock takes off. You would make your profit but cap your profit.

COMMENT

There is no longer any danger of it going to zero but it will be very volatile. Have a lot of commercial real estate, leveraged buyout loans and credit cards on the books. Would prefer JP Morgan (JPM-N), which is a better bank with better management.

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PAST TOP PICK

(A Top Pick May 28/08. Down 50.47%.) Has been trading in and out of this and says he has never lost money on it. Turns out this one is the survivor and will come out stronger. Good chance they could earn $5-$6 a share in the next 2 quarters. You are buying it at 3X earnings or 50% of BV.

HOLD

One of the largest retail banks in the US. Bought Merrill Lynch so they added quite a bit of exposed capital market and to that extent they will benefit. They have other challenges with loan losses and commercial real estate. A mixed bag.

COMMENT

Will be reporting this week but it is a real mystery to be looking at any of the individual banks right now. Doesn't like the individual bank risk but prefers the whole sector through the SPDR Financial ETF (XLF-N). If you are doing individual banks, he would pick JP Morgan (JPM-N) and Goldman Sachs (GS-N) ahead of this one.

BUY ON WEAKNESS

Very risky financial services company and should only be a small portion of your financial services sector. Has Calls written on his whole position and is getting attractive premiums writing covered call options. Reduced his costs (original price mid-$5) to below $2. We consider buying below the $11 range.

TOP PICK

Financial industry is slowly being healed. Made 2 very controversial acquisitions, Countrywide and Merrill Lynch. Merrill Lynch's jewel is their stockbroker business, which is fantastic for the bank. Potential for growing its earnings over the next little while is quite substantial if they get it all right. Yield curve globally is incredibly steep and tanks mint money when this happens. Has 11% of all the deposits in the US.

DON'T BUY

Made all those acquisitions and it is still very scary to him. Still a lot of unknowns. About to go through a bad real estate cycle.

SELL

Going to have a really tough time. Move your money over to a Goldman Sachs (GS-N), JP Morgan (JPM-N) or Morgan Stanley (MS-N). Everyone else has fallen down and they are the last ones left.

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