There is a special kind of comedy that exists only on Wall Street. Not the intentional kind. Not the kind involving jokes. I'm talking about the accidental comedy that emerges when analysts, investors, executives, economists, television personalities, and social media stock experts all stare at the same financial institution and somehow arrive at completely different conclusions. One person sees a screaming buy. Another sees a value trap. A third sees a turnaround story. A fourth sees a disaster waiting to happen. And somehow they're all looking at the same bank. It's magnificent. Financial stocks occupy a unique place in the investing universe. When you buy a technology company, you can usually understand what the business does. They sell software. They build chips. They manufacture hardware. They run cloud infrastructure. Simple enough. When you buy a bank, you're essentially buying a giant spreadsheet wrapped inside another spreadsheet that owns seve...