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Company: SunTrust Banks (STI)
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  Conservative and diversified portfolio

SunTrust’s loan portfolio is relatively conservative and well diversified. The firm focuses only on high-grade commercial and consumer credits.

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  More conservative attitude regarding underwriting that its peers

SunTrust has taken a more conservative attitude regarding underwriting than its peers. Its 10-year average charge-offs are about half of those of its peer banks.

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  SunTrust is a ripe acquisition target

Located in the fast-growing, attractive, market of the Southeast, SunTrust could make a ripe acquisition target for a company looking to expand into that area.

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  its going to be taken over by BBVA

It is the kind of operation that the spanish megabank is trying to do in the area. Afer the adqusition of Compass Group, it has been announced in Spain that the Bank is looking for an important opportunity to double its size in the area. Sun Trust is the one.

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  Its gonna be taken over by BBVA Compass

The spanish bank BBVa it has announced its intention to grow in the area and to consolidate the steps given by Compass Bankshares adquisition and others. They want to spend about Eur 16.000 Million. Sun Trust's is the kind of bank that meets BBVA's philosophy, size and price and, of course, it can have an easy integration in the Group... Let's see

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