While bank stocks like Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and Citigroup (NYSE: C) are climbing higher in 2013, shares of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB) have lagged behind. Are investors better off allocating funds to the other banks that have been on a run, and ditching U.S. Bancorp?

In this video, Motley Fool banking analysts David Hanson and Matt Koppenheffer give investors three reasons the Minneapolis-based bank may still be a great long-term holding.

With big finance firms still trading at deep discounts to their historic norms, investors everywhere are wondering if this is the new normal, or whether finance stocks are a screaming buy today. The answer depends on the company, so to help figure out whether U.S. Bancorp is a buy today, I invite you to read our premium research report on the company today. Click here now for instant access!

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