western alliance has put the springs regional banking crisis in the rearview mirror and will be able to sustain its recent rally according to jpmorgan analyst steven alexopoulos hiked his price target on western alliance to 60 per share from 53 saying in a note to clients on thursday that the stock has material upside after the banks secondquarter earnings report revealed rebounding fundamentals the company showed signs that not only is the worst of the march banking turmoil in the rearview mirror but that the companys deposit growth in the quarter was also fueled in part by about a third of deposits that left during the events of march which have now returned to the bank alexopoulos wrote the bank reported 35 billion of deposit growth during the second quarter and said it expected to add an additional 4 billion in deposits by the end of the year investors appeared to cheer that result even though earnings per share of 196 was a tick below the average estimate of 197 according to factsets streetaccount shares of the bank rose more than 7 on wednesday after the report was released wal 5d mountain shares of western alliance rose sharply on wednesday but even with that rally the stock is still down about 37 from where it ended february before the regional banking crisis shares fell more than 50 in march and then dipped briefly below 20 per share in early may after the failure of first republic  that means that the stock still has room to run according to jpmorgan the firms new price target represents upside of nearly 30 from where western alliances shares closed on wednesday despite wal shares outperforming in response to the quarter as well as over the past couple of months wals 2023e implied cost of equity remains very elevated relative to peers 180 vs peers at 127 even with 2q23 likely representing the low point for net interest incomenet interest margin as a result we continue to see this stock as remaining materially mispriced alexopoulos wrote cnbcs michael bloom contributed to this report