"We Are Number One, Number One, and Number One"

In the following video, Motley Fool financial analysts Matt Koppenheffer and David Hanson discuss one particularly confident statement that US Bancorp CFO Andrew Cerere made yesterday, regarding some of the metrics from the bank's first quarter in 2013: "We are number one, number one and number one." In the video, Matt discusses how US Bancorp stacks up against other banks in terms of return on assets, return on equity, and efficiency ratio, and shows why Cerere has good reason to be proud.

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