A bar chart of U.S. bank failures since 2001, showing that First Republic Bank’s collapse was the second-biggest in U.S. history in terms of assets. The three banks that failed this year were ...

Bank of America Corporation Tangible Common Equity Ratio Chart by YCharts. Below are the tangible common equity ratios for some of the largest financial organizations in the U.S and Europe.

Bank stocks tend to be considered cheap when they trade for less than book value -- i.e., their price-to-book value ratio is less than 1.0 -- because that suggests that investors can buy the bank ...