Financial Services >> Analyst Interviews >> February 15, 2019

Regional Banks Still Trading at Steep Discounts Despite Rallying Back

Winter, Peter J.
Peter J. Winter is a Managing Director at Wedbush Securities, and prior to that, he was a senior analyst in BMO Capital Markets Corp.’s equity research group, covering regional and Texas banks. Prior to joining BMO Capital Markets, Mr. Winter was a senior analyst at Advest, Inc., an affiliate of AXA Financial, and CIBC World Markets. His prior experience includes equity research positions at NatWest Markets and Paine Webber Inc. He began his career at Citibank in the private bank division. He was ranked first in earning estimate accuracy in 2018 and 2017 and third in 2016 and 2015 in StarMine. In addition, in 2008, he was ranked fifth out of 72 analysts by The Wall Street Journal for stock picking and in 2001 “Best on the Street Analysts Survey” for earnings accuracy among banks and S&Ls. Mr. Winter earned a B.S. from Syracuse University. Profile
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TWST: Can you update us, broadly speaking, as to what your coverage is now?

Mr. Winter: I cover the regional banks, which consists of