Underrated banks?
Hi everyone! Curious as to what people think are the most underrated banks. I feel like people always talk up a storm about what they think is overrated but not underrated. Appreciate any insight!
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Citi — 4th globally in M&A Deal Value (behind GS/JPM/MS) in 2024, and 4th YTD 2025 for fees too (according to FT). YTD 2025: 4th globally and in the US by deal value, 2nd for deal value in Europe (only behind GS - according to dealogic)
Those metrics are useless, as Jefferies would be better than PJT, PWP, Qatalyst, and Moelis in the states. It’s all about HH perception.
DB if the question is about HH perception in the US. DB is still considered a historic BB by many HHs, albeit the worst one. It's significantly worse in the leauge table than the top or mid-tiers ones and recently way below UBS or even Jef, yet I don't think our (DB) exits are worse and even if they are worse, exits are only slightly worse (not to mention our culture is much better than Jef or UBS; exit difference is at best going to be a few more UMM placements from Jef/UBS compared to DB which I think can be justified by our significantly better culture). WF and RBC also rank above us in leauge tables and have worse exits than us. DB 100% punches above its leauge table's weight when looking at exits.
Jefferies average deal size is ~$1 billion, whereas Citi, PJT are $2-3 billion.
Citi LDN exits strong lately, in past few months people moving to the likes of Silverlake, Citadel — can’t speak on behalf of NY.
These stats (combined with the total m&a deal value), would make Citi underrated surely (which was OPs question)?
Bank that's underrated: bank I work at. Banks that are overrated: every other bank
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