Background
In this post, readers will discover that total bank returns and valuations are not correlated in the short term but highly correlated long term. Current bank valuations should be attractive to investors with a long-term buy-and-hold investment style.
In addition, readers will gain a better understanding why Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) (BRK.B) have made an outsized investment in bank stocks in 2018-19. Patient investors like Buffett can have a reasonable expectation that total returns for bank stocks over the next 10 years should be in the range of