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RJR’s Top-Rated Banks for Q1 2025
We analyze our group of 27 banks across a number of performance and market-related metrics and use a proprietary scoring algorithm to...

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Who’s Winning the Deposit War? Does it Matter?
Deposits are the lifeblood of all banks but for years have been underappreciated, undervalued, and basically ignored by executives who...

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RJR’s Top-Rated Banks for Q2 2024: M&T, East West Bancorp, Bank OZK
We analyze our group of 30 banks across a number of performance and market-related metrics and use a proprietary scoring algorithm to...

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Are Banks Doing Enough to Protect Seniors? Our Answer is NO!
Financial scams targeting Seniors are exploding, with both the number of victims and dollar amount of losses doubling over the last 4...

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Commercial Real Estate: Look Out Below
The Commercial Real Estate Market Facing Serious Headwinds Over the past year, we, along with many other industry analysts, have...

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Our Top Rated Banks for Q3 2023
The numbers have been crunched, the data analyzed, and now the winners can be revealed. And the winner and returning Champion is ......

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A Special RJR Report: CEO Compensation, Are they Worth It?
Now that all the proxy statements are in and we can see how much all of our CEOs are paid, it's time once again to try to figure out why...

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A Special RJR Report: Come for the Yield, Stay for the Gains
As the entire banking sector experienced precipitous valuation declines during the past couple of months, based more on panic than...

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Banks Take Off Since our Bullish Call: Did we Get Lucky?
As our subscribers and those who regularly visit our website (therjreport.com) know, we identified the overall banking sector as...

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The RJ Report Names Bank OZK, East West Bancorp, and KeyCorp as top rated First Quarter Performers.
The numbers have been crunched, the data analyzed, and now the winners can be revealed. And The Champion is ... Bank OZK! How We Choose...

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A Special RJR Report: What to Expect from First Quarter Earnings. Is the Dumpster on Fire?
Most banks will be reporting their first quarter earnings over the next few weeks and, spoiler alert, it ain’t gonna be pretty. For many,...

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Earnings Outlook: Q4 Earnings Beat: 2023 Storm Warnings
As earnings season kicks off, we generally agree with most consensus analyst estimates that expect the majority of Super Regional,...

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CEO Comp: Are they Worth It?
It's Bonus Decision Time As we move into the new year it's time to look at CEO compensation and try to figure out why these folks get...

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Banking M&A: Who's on the Menu?
A question we are often asked is “What’s the outlook for mergers and acquisitions in the banking sector and do large acquisitions build...

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