Keep Your Eye on the Little Guy
With the current upheaval in the capital markets and the news that Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley have written off $70 billion in loans, it is interesting to note a whole cadre of financial institutions that are doing gangbusters. According to an article in the 2/19/08 USA Today by Matt Krantz, smaller banks which avoided the enticement of lowering underwriting standards and issuing subprime loans, are on average, only 6% off their 52 week high. Most of these names are unfamiliar — Danvers, First Merchants and Oriental Financial. As the heavily leveraged buyers retrench and the access to bridge loans and mezzanine financing pulls back, could we see a number of well capitalized small cap financial institutions step in to fill the void in the commercial real estate investment market?
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Comment by Ben — April 11, 2008 @ 1:13 am