In the following video, Motley Fool financial analysts Matt Koppenheffer and David Hanson discuss one particularly confident statement that US Bancorp (USB -0.50%) CFO Andrew Cerere made yesterday, regarding some of the metrics from the bank's first quarter in 2013: "We are number one, number one and number one." In the video, Matt discusses how US Bancorp stacks up against other banks in terms of return on assets, return on equity, and efficiency ratio, and shows why Cerere has good reason to be proud.
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"We Are Number One, Number One, and Number One"
NYSE: USB
U.S. Bancorp

US Bancorp CFO Andrew Cerere makes a delightfully confident statement about the bank's Q1 2013 numbers.
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Matt is the head of the Coverage Team for The Motely Fool's premium products. Previously, he was the GM of Motley Fool Ascent, led The Motley Fool Deutschland, and has been an investor on various Fool services. Matt is a heavy user of AI tools and is working on harnessing them to help Fool members.
David Hanson owns shares of BB&T; Matt Koppenheffer owns shares of PNC Financial Services. The Motley Fool recommends Wells Fargo. The Motley Fool owns shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co., PNC Financial Services, and Wells Fargo. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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