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The big rise in interest rates this year has drawn renewed attention to the balance sheets of banks in general — and of Bank of America in particular.
Why it matters: If you look at the market value of BofA's assets, the bank starts to look weaker than would befit its too-big-to-fail status.
The big picture: BofA has an $840 billion securities portfolio that's still yielding less than 3%. "In a rising rate environment, BAC could get into serious problems," says independent bank analyst Christopher Whalen.
Whalen notes that much of the bank's mortgage portfolio, which includes a lot of mortgages priced at less than 3%, has a projected average life of more than 15 years, thanks to the lock-in effect.
BofA didn't respond to Axios' inquiry.
Follow the money: BofA has an official book value of $265 billion as of the first quarter — but that assumes that some $1.6 trillion of bonds and loans can be valued at par.
Every quarter, BofA has to disclose the fair market value (FMV) of those bond and loan assets — and that number is much lower than the par value.
By the numbers: In the fourth quarter, the FMV of BofA's bonds and loans was $119 billion lower than the par value.
In the third quarter, when rates were closer to their current levels, the FMV losses were $162 billion, per calculations by portfolio manager Jack Ciesielski.
Meanwhile, BofA is also charging off more than $1 billion per quarter in bad loans.
The impact: BofA's mark-t0-market book value looks closer to $100 billion than $265 billion.
The bank's $223 billion in tier 1 capital also looks overstated by a similar amount, were its assets to be valued at current market interest rates.
The bottom line: BofA is more than big enough to hold all these bonds and loans to maturity, and there's a case to be made that therefore it has no need to care about what happens to their value along the way.
All the same, it's hard for any bank to make money if its assets are yielding 3% while its funding cost is north of 6%.
By holding onto the mortgages yielding around 3%, says Whalen, BofA "has essentially crippled its asset returns for years to come."
"If your asset returns are below peer and your credit losses are above peer, then where does that leave you? In a very bad place."