C - European Banks: Ready For Take Off?
1. Introduction
2018 was a desastrous year for European banks. Their stocks lost significant market valuations. Let's have a look at the annual return of selected big European banks:
All in all, banks were a bad investment and you could think that the European banks must have trouble generating profits and paying dividends. In the following, it becomes clear that this is not the case for all banks. Hence, there are many investment opportunities in the bank sector, especially after the Christmas sell-off last week.