5 Best Regional Bank Stocks To Buy Right Now

Given that you clicked on this article, it seems safe to assume you either own stock in Synovus Financial (NYSE: SNV  ) or are considering buying shares in the near future. If so, then you've come to the right place. The table below reveals the nine most critical numbers that investors need to know about Synovus stock before deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold it.

As the bank's website tells it, Synovus traces its roots back to 1888 when a mill worker at Eagle and Phenix Mill in Columbus, Georgia "had her dress tangled in the factory machinery, and money sewn into the hem spilled across the floor." The mill's secretary and treasurer thereafter began offering to keep employees' money in a safe and pay them monthly interest on it. And thus was born Synovus Financial. With roughly $27 billion in assets today, the bank has since grown into one of the largest regional banks in the country.

5 Best Regional Bank Stocks To Buy Right Now: A.s. Roma(ASR.MI)

A.S. ROMA S.P.A. owns and operates a football club. The company was founded in 1927 and is based in Rome, Italy. A.S. ROMA S.P.A. operates as a subsidiary of NEEP Roma Holding spa.

5 Best Regional Bank Stocks To Buy Right Now: Stakis(SKS.L)

Shanks Group plc operates as a waste and resource management company that provides waste management solutions in the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom, and Canada. The company involves in the collection, transfer, recycling, and treatment of non-hazardous solid waste; industrial cleaning, transportation, treatment, and disposal of contaminated soils, as well as remediation of contaminated land; and anaerobic digestion and tunnel composting of source segregated organic waste streams. It also engages in the landfill disposal activities, including contaminated soils; generation of power from landfill gas; and municipal waste treatment contracts and mineral extraction businesses. The company was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Milton Keynes, the United Kingdom.

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OPMEDIC Group Inc. provides healthcare related services primarily in Canada. It offers professional fertility services; laboratory and genetic services; diagnostic laboratory services, primarily prenatal screening; cytogenic tests designed to improve healthcare as an aid to prenatal screening and can be performed on peripheral blood, amniotic fluid, and bone marrow; and other cytology and genetic testing. The company also provides surgical and endoscopic services, such as general surgery, otorhinolaryngology, gynecology, urology, digestive endoscopy, and plastic and cosmetic surgery; and facilities for patients and surgeons. In addition, it offers sperm banking services. The company was formerly known as Repro Clinics Inc. and changed its name to OPMEDIC Group Inc. in October 2005. OPMEDIC Group Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Mount-Royal, Canada.

5 Best Regional Bank Stocks To Buy Right Now: Zions Bancorporation(ZION)

Zions Bancorporation, a multi bank holding company, provides various banking and related products and services in the United States. The company offers community banking services, including small and medium-sized business and corporate banking; commercial and residential development, construction, and term lending; retail banking; treasury cash management and related products and services; residential mortgage; trust and wealth management; and investment activities. It also provides personal banking services to individuals, including home mortgages, bankcard, installment loans, home equity lines of credit, checking accounts, savings accounts, time certificates, safe deposit facilities, direct deposits, and automated teller machine access. In addition, the company offers small business administration lending services; secondary market agricultural real estate mortgage loans; municipal finance advisory and underwriting services; and wealth management and online brokerage ser vices. As of December 31, 2010, Zions Bancorporation offered its banking services through 495 branches in Utah, California, Texas, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and New Mexico. The company was founded in 1873 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Anthony Mirhaydari]

  The combination of an improving labor market and a strengthening housing market, along with ultra-cheap short-term financing and attractive long-term investments, will work wonders for even the most beleaguered banks in 2011. So if you’re looking for a leveraged way to express a positive opinion on the future of the economy — look no further than Zions Bancorporation (NASDAQ: ZION).

• [By Dan Freed]

  While Zions shares trade at a 12% discount to peers in terms of normalized earnings, JPMorgan says the bank is on its way to "much narrower discount."

  The report adds that management is moving ahead with a cleans up the capital structure and creating "a more normal level of credit costs."

5 Best Regional Bank Stocks To Buy Right Now: MYR Group Inc.(MYRG)

MYR Group Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides electrical construction service in the continental United States. The company operates in two segments, Transmission and Distribution, and Commercial and Industrial. The Transmission and Distribution segment provides design, engineering, procurement, construction, upgrade, maintenance, and repair services. Its services include the construction and maintenance of high voltage transmission lines, substations, and lower voltage underground and overhead distribution systems; and emergency restoration services in response to hurricane, ice, or other storm related damages. This segment?s customers include investor-owned utilities, municipal utilities, cooperatives, federally-owned utilities, independent power producers, independent transmission companies, industrial facility owners, and other contractors. The Commercial and Industrial segment provides electrical contracting services for commercial and industrial construction in the western United States. It offers electrical contracting services for airports, hospitals, data centers, hotels, casinos, arenas, convention centers, manufacturing plants, processing facilities, and transportation control and management systems. This segment?s customers include general contractors, commercial and industrial facility owners, local governments, and developers. MYR Group Inc. was founded in 1891 and is headquartered in Rolling Meadows, Illinois.