Monday, February 23, 2009

Top Ten Banks.... Then and Now

Top ten banks by market cap; then (October 31st, 2007) vs. now (February 20th, 2009):

By Rank


Maintaining Same Color


And this is AFTER the billions of dollars in government "investments".

Source: WSJ

8 comments:

  1. Where's Citigroup now? They got $45B, they better still be having it on their books.

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  2. If they were a good investment, wouldn't someone just purchase them outright at these prices? What am I missing?

    Don the libertarian Democrat

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  3. this is market value of the equity... citi is currently valued at less than $12 billion

    http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=c

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  4. Any way of doing this chart so that the banks stay the same color?

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  5. Did you miss Bank Of NY Mellon in the right plot?

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  6. BoNY wasn't a top 10 bank back in 2007...

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  7. Funny how Wachovia is now no more. Any chance of this shrinking even more? This is an awesome top ten list, you can post this to our site http://www.toptentopten.com/ and then link back to your site. We are looking for content and in return our users will track back to your site. The coolest feature is you can let other people vote on the rankings of your list.

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