It appears banks are not adequately impairing their goodwill. While market value isn’t necessarily the sole trigger for a bank to impair its goodwill, it is a powerful one. Fully 72% (36 of 50) of the banks we analyzed trade below book with 58% (29 of 50) trading below tangible book. Based on the rules governing goodwill, we expected to find widespread goodwill impairments by banks. That didn’t happen. Rather, our analysis shows that 70% (35 of 50) of the banks we analyzed did not impair goodwill in 2008. Despite a pop in the easy credit bubble, a period during which many acquisitions that generated the goodwill were made, only $21.5 billion (less than 10%) in total goodwill was written down by 15 of the banks in our study.
Trois des 4 zombies (BAC, JPM, WFC) font de nouveau des miracles et ne dévalorisent rien. BAC dépasse les limites du bon sens, avec un ratio "Survaleurs + Intangibles sur Capital propre" de 51%. Le seul bon élève de la bande, si l'on peut se permettre cette gentillesse, est Citibank.
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