Citi Tumbles Below $5/Share On A Split-Adjusted Basis After Failing Another Fed Stress Test
Tyler Durden on 03/26/2014 16:17 -0400
Another year, another failure by Citigroup to i) pass the Fed’s stress test and ii) be able to stop investing cash in such idiotic fundamental concepts as CapEx, and instead reward activist shareholders with increased dividends and buybacks. As the WSJ reports, Citigroup “failed to get Federal Reserve approval to reward investors with dividends and stock buybacks, a significant blow to Chief Executive Michael Corbat’s effort to bolster the bank’s reputation following a 2008 government rescue.” Hardly surprising for a bank which effectively was wiped out in the crisis and which only survived thanks to the Fed-backed crammed-up, spinoff of billions of toxic assets into a bank bank, however certainly surprising for a bank that is supposed to be “fixed” five years into a “recovery.” What’s worse, the stock is now trading below the infamous $5 level on a pre-split adjustment level – the same split that was supposed to at least optically, give the impression that things at Citi are ok. Turns out optics is only half the answer. Read more of this post
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