Northern Trust Corp

• 4 Trusted Names In Banking: Where Is The Value?

  By Bill Edson - May 17, 2013 | Tickers: JPM, NTRS, STT, BK

  Banking and financials have seen high volatility over the past several years. Confidence is the biggest factor behind this volatility. Today, I will look at four banks that I have been following closely to see if they offer any promising opportunities for investors. Can investors find stability in this sector? Which of these stocks should they consider? 

  Better without Jamie Dimon?

  JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM), this nation's largest bank more »

• Should You Trust Your Money With This Trust Bank?

  By Mark Lin - May 16, 2013 | Tickers: NTRS, STT, BK

  Many people lost faith in banks, after witnessing the collapse of Bear Sterns and Lehman Brothers during the Global Financial Crisis. However, not all banks are huge risk takers with volatile revenue streams. State Street (NYSE: STT), a trust bank which provides various back-end services to support investment managers, boasts of strong recurring fee income. It derives more than four-fifth of its revenues generated from asset servicing services and is more »

• What the Fed's 2013 Stress Tests Say About Big Banks

  By Damian Illia - April 16, 2013 | Tickers: BAC, JPM, NTRS, STT, BK

  What is The Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review?

  In hopes of preventing another 2008-style financial meltdown, the Federal Reserve has launched a strict test that measures how banks manage their assets. Basically, the CCAR gauges their ability to withstand a very bad economic scenario while remaining well-capitalized (a minimum Tier 1 common ratio of 5.0%).

  The Fed can object to certain banks' plans for their capital based on quantitative more »

• 2013 Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review: The New Regulation

  By Damian Illia - April 8, 2013 | Tickers: BAC, JPM, NTRS, STT, BK

  According to the Federal Reserve, CCAR is an intensive assessment of the capital adequacy of large, complex U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs) and of the practices they use to manage their capital.

  This review is extremely important for investors because under this capital rule, banks plans must include detailed descriptions of: internal processes for assessing capital adequacy; the policies governing capital actions such as common stock issuance, dividends, and more »

• Beating Buffett? It’s Possible With "2nd-Place" Stocks

  By Michele Tatum - March 4, 2013 | Tickers: BRK-A, KO, CL, HNZ, MTB, NTRS, PEP, PG, BK, USB, WFC

  It is not a stretch to call Warren Buffett the greatest value investor of all time. Buffet’s personal fortune of more than $50 billion confirms as much as do the latest batch of quarterly results out of his financial conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A).

  Last week, the company said its fourth-quarter net income surged 49% to $4.55 billion. Even after Berkshire’s $12 billion commitment to the $23 more »

• A Look At 3 Trust Banks In Early 2013

  By Maxwell Fisher - January 31, 2013 | Tickers: NTRS, STT, BK

  Note: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated the number of branch offices operated by Northern trust. The article has been corrected.

  There are big national banks, the ones I characterize with over $1 trillion in assets. There are the large regional banks, with assets of over $50 billion. We have seen that the regional banks have nearly unanimously met or bettered Wall Street estimates this earnings season. We more »

• Buy These 2 Winning Stocks Now

  By Maxwell Fisher - September 25, 2012 | Tickers: NTRS, STT, BK

  Not only did all of the nation's larger commercial banks present at the recent Barclays Financial Services Conference, so did some of the nation's largest independent trust banks. I highlight “independent” because some large banks such as JPMorgan Chase (JPM) have large, fee based trust operations. But a trust bank obtains the bulk of its revenue from fee services.

   

  As a banking operation, State Street (NYSE: STT) rates more »

• Why Does This Tiger Cub Like State Street Corp?

  By Meena Krishnamsetty - September 7, 2012 | Tickers: BLK, JPM, NTRS, STT, BK

  State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) is a holding company consisting of two business units: custodian bank State Street Bank and Trust and investment management services company State Street Global Advisors. State Street Global Advisors has about $2 trillion under management, making it the second largest asset manager in the world after BlackRock (NYSE: BLK). In its 13F filing for the second quarter of 2012, hedge fund Viking Global disclosed that more »

• How to Hedge Your JPMorgan Investment

  By Bill Edson - July 20, 2012 | Tickers: JPM, NTRS, USB, WFC

  In 2012 investors in financial companies should know that they are investing in black boxes which could generate huge, sporadic losses. Firms like JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) will seem stable for years only to report a catastrophic loss which could never be forecasted from financial statements. This news should not come as a surprise. Yet somehow the market is punishing JPMorgan for "surprise" losses that it should come to expect more »

• U.S. Bancorp Will Ride Higher on Positive Earnings

  By Maxwell Fisher - April 19, 2012 | Tickers: NTRS, STT, USB

  U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), which has been the nation's premier large bank by most profitability and efficiency measures in recent years, put up another stellar quarter in the first three months of 2012. The Minneapolis based bank is the country's fifth largest by assets with about $340 billion. In the first quarter, the company posted earnings of $1.34 billion, or $0.67 per share. This was more »

• State Street Hikes Dividend After Passing Stress Test

  By Maxwell Fisher - March 16, 2012 | Tickers: NTRS, STT, BK

  I am going to analyze the three largest trust banks in the country, focusing on State Street (NYSE: STT), but I will also touch upon Bank of New York Mellon (NYSE: BK) and Northern Trust (NASDAQ: NTRS). These banks all have much in common; yet have plenty to distinguish them as well. At their best, trust banks are highly stable, income oriented banks best suited to conservative investors.

   

  State Street more »