While bank stocks like Bank of America (BAC 0.46%) and Citigroup (C 2.24%) are climbing higher in 2013, shares of U.S. Bancorp (USB 0.98%) 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.