- BBT Ticker
- 🇺🇸 NYSE Exchange
- 35,852 Employees
- 💰 Financials Sector
- 🏦 Banks Industry
- Kelly S. King CEO
Analyst Recommendations
This chart is a recommendation for investors. To provide forecasts, analysts and brokers use companies' public financial reports and speak with their employees and clients. The end result is a solution that's marked on the chart, which shows analysts' opinions at different periods of time. Move your cursor to track on what the dates the recommendations changed.
Investors shouldn't only follow analyst recommendations. Forecasts should be used to supplement existing strategies and plans. Trading based on a recommendation chart is is considered bad practice. Analyst reports should only be used in conjunction with your own analytics.
Also known as strong sell, it's a recommendation to sell a security or to liquidate an asset.
A recommendation that means a stock is expected to do slightly worse than the overall stock market return. Underperform can also be expressed as "moderate sell", "weak hold" and "underweight."
A company with a hold recommendation is expected to perform on par with comparable companies or in line with the market.
Also known as "moderate buy", "accumulate", and "overweight." Outperform is an analyst recommendation meaning a stock is expected to do slightly better than the market return.
Also known as strong buy and "on the recommended list." Needless to say, buy is a recommendation to purchase a specific security.
Also known as strong sell, it's a recommendation to sell a security or to liquidate an asset.
A recommendation that means a stock is expected to do slightly worse than the overall stock market return. Underperform can also be expressed as "moderate sell", "weak hold" and "underweight."
A company with a hold recommendation is expected to perform on par with comparable companies or in line with the market.
Also known as "moderate buy", "accumulate", and "overweight." Outperform is an analyst recommendation meaning a stock is expected to do slightly better than the market return.
Also known as strong buy and "on the recommended list." Needless to say, buy is a recommendation to purchase a specific security.
BB&T Corp. engages in the provision of banking and trust services through its subsidiaries. It operates through the following segments: Community Banking-Retail; Community Banking-Commercial; Insurance Holdings; and Financial Services and Commercial Finance; Other, Treasury and Corporate. The Community Banking-Retail segment offers a variety of loan and deposit products, payment services, bankcard products, and other financial services. The Community Banking-Commercial segment includes commercial real estate lending, commercial and industrial lending, corporate banking, asset based-lending, dealer inventory financing, tax exempt financing, cash management and treasury services, and commercial deposit products. The Insurance Holdings segment covers property and casualty, employee benefits, and life insurance to businesses and individuals. The Financial Services and Commercial Finance segment consists of personal trust administration, estate planning, investment counseling, wealth management, asset management, corporate retirement services, capital markets and corporate banking services, corporate trust services and specialty finance products to businesses. The Other, Treasury and Corporate segment comprises of the combination of other segment that represents operating entities. The company was was founded by Alpheus Branch in 1872 and is headquartered in Winston-Salem, NC.