This major bank just reclaimed its financial crisis peak
By Steve Strazza
July 25, 2026
Welcome back for another Top Down Trade of the Week.
This is a classic leadership scan.
We start with the best sectors, then drill into the subgroups. We pick one, and then take a look at the top stocks in it.
This week's standout is Financials, holding its ground in 3rd place on our sector leaderboard.
Financials remain solid and have held up better than the broader market, continuing to act as a relative safe haven amid the tech/AI selloff and the oil-driven inflation scare.
While the headline indexes got dragged around by semis and mega-cap tech volatility, financial stocks traded more constructively over the week as investors rotated toward traditional cyclicals and cash-generative business models.
This is our overall industry rankings, showing Diversified Bank stocks rising 11 spots to take their spot in 16th place.
Here are the top-performing names in the Diversified Banks industry, ranked by relative strength.
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