Bank of America: Financial Loser

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Bank of America (BAC) was the big loser among the largest U.S. financial names on Tuesday, with shares declining more than 4% to close at $8.54.

The major U.S. equity indices lost ground for a fifth straight session on Tuesday as eurozone worries soured sentiment ahead of first-quarter reporting season.

Meanwhile, U.S. Treasury bond prices continued to climb, with the 10-year bond yield dropping below 2%, for the first time since early March. One veteran Wall Street bond portfolio manager blamed "the rain in Spain" as the yield on 10-year Spanish paper in the open market climbed to 5.94% from 5.74%. A week earlier, Spanish 10-year bonds were yielding 5.43%.

The KBW Bank Index (I:BKX) pulled back over 2% to close at 46.83.

Bank of America's shares have now returned 54% year-to-date, following a 58% decline during 2011.

With the shares dipping 10% over the past week, investors may be looking at a buying opportunity. Bank of America trades for just 0.7 times its reported Dec. 30 tangible book value of $12.95, and for eight times the consensus 2013 earnings estimate of $1.06 a share, among analysts polled by Thomson Reuters.