After initially passing the Federal Reserve's recent round of stress tests and being granted the ability to raise its dividend and initiate a share repurchasing program, Bank of America has now notified the Fed that it mistakenly reported $4 billion in additional capital. The bank will now be forced to suspend its planned increases to shareholder distributions.
On Tuesday's Investor Beat, host Alison Southwick and Motley Fool analysts Mike Olsen and Brendan Mathews take a look at how an error of this size could have happened, and just how badly this could damage both the credibility of the bank, as well as the credibility of the Fed's stress tests. Mike also mentions that this demonstrates just how many unknowns there truly are for investors in banks of this size.
Later in the show, Mike and Brendan each pick one stock they've got a close eye on right now. Mike looks at a company with large the market share and barriers to entry for competitors to this knee and hip replacement company. Meanwhile, Brendan takes a look a payments company, and says he'll be looking very carefully at consumer-to-consumer transaction volume when the company reports earnings Thursday. If people are continuing to use the service, he could see the stock as very cheap today.
