Understanding Bank Stocks

Erensel LLC provides investment insights and equity research on bank stocks.

Banks are a window into the national economy, and bank stocks reflect financial conditions. Understanding them can yield fruitful investment opportunities as well as galvanize understanding of broader financial markets.

Given today’s cross currents of threat and innovation, modern banking in the US is as difficult to understand as its complicated history. River is a metaphor for life. The flows are constant, current can be terecharous, but if you are rpepared, nearly any river is navigable.

Brent Erensel has been thinking and talking about banks and bank stocks since the age of 23, and has led bank equity research teams at bulge bracket firms such as UBS and Dean Writter (Morgan Stanley). Four decades on, he remains as passionate about his work as ever. Brent readily sees the big picture and seldom gets lost when venturing into the weeds. He understands that facts matter but also greed and fear.  As a contemporaneous student of the Latin American Debt Crisis, the Commercial Real Estate bust of the 90s, The Global Financial Crisis of 2009, and the ensuing Dodd-Frank legislation, Brent is uniquely positioned to offer perspective on the numbers as well as all-important market psychology. As a practitioner, he strives to be unbiased, transparent, understandable and approachable.