What banks will healthy once the credit crisis ends?

Question

Now seems like a prime time to buy bank stocks, I plan to invest some money into that sector. There are so many regional and national branches to consider that pinpointing an undervalued winner is a hard task.

Can someone point me in a good direction?

Answer 1

catching falling knives is dangerous.

if people knew who would be left standing, then the stock of that company would be up instead of down.

Answer 2

I did buy banks stocks on 5 big banks but I am long on them.

Till the sub prime problem has come to a end there will be some volatility with them. I think they are safe in the long run, the government would not want to see the banks go under.

Take a look at JPM ONB MS C WFC BAC.Also it would not hurt to have some GLD.

Answer 3

The banks that were not heavily leveraged into the high risk lending wll come out the best.

Answer 4

do invest in any bank until the following happens:

-oil drop

-housing turn around

-gold decline

-unemployment rate back to 5%

good luck

Answer 5

Wells Fargo is in good shape.