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Goldman Sachs is scheduled to report second-quarter earnings before the opening bell Monday.
Here’s what Wall Street expects:
Earnings: $8.34 per share, according to LSEG
Revenue: $12.46 billion, according to LSEG
Trading Revenue: Fixed Income of $2.96 billion, Equities of $3.17 billion, per StreetAccount
Investing Banking Revenue: $1.80 billion, according to StreetAccount
Expectations have been set high for Goldman Sachs, with Wall Street businesses in the midst of a rebound after a dismal 2023.
That’s because out of the six biggest U.S. banks, Goldman is the most reliant on investment banking and trading to generate revenue.
Another focal point for the quarter will be in asset and wealth management, areas that Goldman CEO David Solomon has wagered can be a growth engine for the bank.
On Friday, rivals JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup both topped expectations thanks to surging investment banking fees and better-than-expected equities trading results.
When Charlie Scharf took the reins at Wells Fargo five years ago, the bank was in turmoil. A series of scandals landed it in the regulatory doghouse — dealing a major blow to the 172-year-old firm’s reputation and leading to a multi-billion-dollar plunge in its stock market value. Fast forward to 2024: Wells Fargo looks like a different bank altogether — and despite Friday’s post-earnings decline, the turnaround is still humming. Wells Fargo tumbled more than 6% to under $57 per share after missing expectations on quarterly net interest income (NII), a key measure of lending profitability. Investors on Friday were more concerned about NII weakness than overall second-quarter revenue and earnings per share (EPS) beats. Management’s drive under Scharf into fee-based businesses such as investment banking helped offset softer NII. However, since investment banking revenue is tied to compensation, the bank had to raise its expense outlook for the year. That’s a good problem to have. In Friday’s earnings commentary , the Club upgraded Wells Fargo back to our buy-equivalent 1 rating — viewing Friday’s drop as an opportunity to add shares. Expansion into new markets has been a hallmark of Scharf’s tenure, along with an overhaul of senior leadership and an improved standing with regulators. Taken together, it shows just how far the CEO has gone to rehabilitate Wells Fargo. Investors have taken notice. Despite Friday’s setback, shares of Wells Fargo are still up more than 15% so far this year, compared to 13% for the KBW Nasdaq Bank Index , which tracks the performance of major U.S. banks. Since Scharf was announced as CEO in September 2019, Wells Fargo shares gained 12.5% — on par with the banking sector. The stock hit a multiyear high of $62.55 per share in May, which was only a few dollars off its January 2018 all-time record close of nearly $66. “Scharf has done an incredible job fixing up Wells Fargo,” said Jeff Marks, director of portfolio analysis for the CNBC Investing Club. “Before he joined, the bank had a bloated cost structure, lagged in technology, and suffered from a horrible reputation. Scharf and his team have right-sized costs, invested in tech, and materially enhanced the bank’s risks and controls.” A big part of Scharf’s job has been moving the company through all the regulatory hurdles that were put in place after the scandals of the late 2010s. In 2016, Wells was found to have opened millions of unauthorized bank accounts under customer names as employees tried to meet high-pressure sales goals. Just a year later, the bank was accused of charging hundreds of thousands of people for auto insurance they did not need, many of which resulted in delinquencies. Among those affected were active duty military service members. That same year, Wells Fargo admitted to improperly charging home lending customers for mortgage-rate-lock extensions as well. WFC YTD mountain Wells Fargo (WFC) year-to-date performance The Federal Reserve ordered Wells Fargo to freeze its balance sheet in 2018, keeping its assets below $1.95 trillion until senior management cleaned up its act. The most recent sign that Scharf is repairing that damage came in February when the company cleared a major regulatory hurdle tied to the 2016 fake accounts scandal. The bank said in a release that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency terminated a consent order, or penalty, that forced it to change how it sells its retail products and services. This was a “huge accomplishment” and another big step toward removing the Fed’s asset cap, said Bank of America analyst Ebrahim Poonawala. “As we know, getting regulatory issues resolved is not an easy task for large organizations, and I think that if the bank can get out of the asset cap over the next year or so, that will be a big boost of additional credibility for Charlie and his leadership,” he added. The asset cap places a constraint on Wells Fargo’s growth by prohibiting the bank from doing more lending and, in turn, increasing interest incomes. It also keeps the bank from acquiring other high-growth companies or making strategic investments that could increase its assets beyond that nearly $2 trillion threshold. To be sure, Scharf and Wells are not out of the woods yet. The bank has cleared six of 14 consent orders from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. While they don’t all need to be cleared before the U.S. central bank lifts the cap, more progress is still needed. During a banking conference in May, Scharf said Wells had eliminated the aggressive sales targets and certain incentive plans at branches that initially spurred bad behavior. The bank has also paid billions to regulators over the years. In 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ordered Wells to dish out $3.7 billion alone for violations across its auto loans, mortgages and deposit accounts. But ultimately, it’s up to the regulators to decide if the cap will be removed. “We have to close these orders. We have to build the controls and make them part of the company,” Scharf said. “So, we’re not declaring victory.” In addition, Wells Fargo’s investment banking business, while growing, is small in comparison to the other banking behemoths that also reported Friday. Revenue from Wells Fargo’s investment banking segment in the second quarter jumped 38% year over year to $430 million. JPMorgan Chase ‘s investment banking revenue surged 46% to $2.5 billion. The Club’s other bank, Morgan Stanley , also has a bigger investment banking division. It reports earnings on Tuesday. There’s still a lot to celebrate, however. Wells Fargo parted with most of its senior management from its pre-2019 era and remade its board of directors. Eleven out of the 15 members on Wells Fargo’s senior leadership team have joined since Scharf assumed his role. The same goes for six out of the 13 board members for the financial behemoth. Poonawala said the new hires will help change the company’s culture and build back its reputation for honesty and trust. “I think not having sort of a lot of intense legacy [in management] helps,” he said, adding: “If you look at the org structure, most of these executives are new to the bank during his operating committee. When you look at the turnaround and how this plays out, he’s been able to attract a lot of high-quality talent from competitors, and I think that helps” when fixing a company. Scharf’s plan to move Wells beyond its traditional lending roots is also well under way. A CNBC analysis in late May found that Wells Fargo made at least 17 senior-level hires in its corporate and investment banking (CIB) division since the start of 2023. Under Scharf’s leadership, the bank has poached top talent from Wall Street peers like Scharf’s former employer, JPMorgan Chase. For example, Doug Braunstein, an M & A veteran who spent nearly two decades at the bank, joined Wells Fargo as vice chairman in February to oversee its corporate finance and advisory businesses. “Wells Fargo has historically been known as more of a mortgage bank, but they’ve taken some measures to reduce their sensitivity to the mortgage environment,” Raymond James analyst David Long said in a recent interview. “Charlie and his team brought in several high-ranking bankers in the investment banking arena, and we’re starting to see positive results in that regard.” He added: “The higher-for-longer [interest rate] environment is not conducive to more M & A and other investment banking transactions, but if rates do start to come down, we’re likely to see a pickup in that business, which Wells would be a beneficiary of.” Thursday’s cooler consumer inflation report boosted the case for the Fed to start cutting interest rates, with market odds growing for as many as three cuts by year-end. An expansion into investment banking is beneficial for Wells Fargo because it allows the firm to rely less on interest-based revenues, which are at the mercy of the Fed’s monetary policy. Remember, management forecasted a NII decline between 7% to 9% for fiscal year 2024, and second-quarter earnings on Friday showed that it will likely come in at the top of that range. This is because customers are moving their funds to higher-yielding products as rates stay higher for longer. Instead, fee-based incomes — like those from advisory costs on M & A deals and other IB transactions — are a more durable and less volatile revenue stream. “We continued to see growth in our fee-based revenue offsetting an expected decline in net interest income,” Scharf said on Friday. “The investments we have been making allowed us to take advantage of the market activity in the quarter with strong performance in investment advisory, trading and investment banking fees.” Marks said the exec’s strategy is “really working,” citing the second-quarter’s 19% year-over-year increase in non-interest income, which handily beat expectations. “Fee revenues were fantastic, we continue to see Charlie Scharf really make a really big push into this. He’s gone on a hiring spree lately, hiring a lot of ex bankers throughout the industry,” Marks said on Friday. “He wants to make the bank less tied to the yield curve and more tied to the sticky fee-based revenues, but it’s going to take time.” (Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust is long WFC, MS. See here for a full list of the stocks.) As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust’s portfolio. If Jim has talked about a stock on CNBC TV, he waits 72 hours after issuing the trade alert before executing the trade. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER . NO FIDUCIARY OBLIGATION OR DUTY EXISTS, OR IS CREATED, BY VIRTUE OF YOUR RECEIPT OF ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE INVESTING CLUB. 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Charlie Scharf, CEO, Wells Fargo, speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California on May 2, 2023. speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California on May 2, 2023.
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When Charlie Scharf took the reins at Wells Fargo five years ago, the bank was in turmoil. A series of scandals landed it in the regulatory doghouse — dealing a major blow to the 172-year-old firm’s reputation and leading to a multi-billion-dollar plunge in its stock market value.
Fast forward to 2024: Wells Fargo looks like a different bank altogether — and despite Friday’s post-earnings decline, the turnaround is still humming.
Stephanie Link, Hightower chief investment strategist, joins ‘Squawk Box’ to break down the quarterly earnings results from JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.
Jane Fraser, CEO of Citi, speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, on May 1, 2023.
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Citigroup on Friday posted second-quarter results that topped expectations for profit and revenue on a rebound in Wall Street activity.
Here’s what the company reported:
Earnings: $1.52 a share vs. $1.39 a share expected, according to LSEG
Revenue: $20.14 billion vs. $20.07 billion expected
The bank said net income jumped 10% from a year earlier to $3.22 billion, or $1.52 a share. Revenue rose 4% to $20.14 billion.
Equities trading revenue rose 37% to $1.5 billion, driven by strength in derivatives and a rise in hedge fund balances, roughly $300 million more than the StreetAccount estimate.
Fixed income revenue dipped 3% to $3.6 billion, essentially matching analysts’ expectations, on lower activity in rates and currency markets.
Investment banking revenue surged 60% to $853 million, driven by strong issuance of investment-grade bonds and a rebound in IPO and merger activity from low levels in 2023.
Shares of the bank fell nearly 2%.
“Our results show the progress we are making in executing our strategy and the benefit of our diversified business model,” Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser said in the release. “Markets had a strong finish to the quarter leading to better performance than we had anticipated.”
Citigroup was just this week rebuked for failing to fix its regulatory shortfalls.
Last year, Fraser announced plans to simplify the management structure and reduce costs at the third-biggest U.S. bank by assets. But earnings will take a backseat if Citigroup cannot appease regulators’ concerns about its data and risk management.
Correction: This article has been updated to correct that Citigroup reported revenue of $20.14 billion for the second quarter. A previous version misstated the figure due to a rounding error.
Jamie Dimon, chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., speaks during an Economic Club of New York (ECNY) event in New York, US, on Tuesday, April 23, 2024.
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JPMorgan Chase is scheduled to report second-quarter earnings before the opening bell Friday.
Here’s what Wall Street expects:
Earnings: $4.19 a share, according to LSEG
Revenue: $49.9 billion, according to LSEG
Net interest income: $22.8 billion, according to StreetAccount
Trading Revenue: Fixed income of $4.82 billion; Equities of $2.77 billion, according to StreetAccount
Will cracks in the economy begin to reveal themselves in JPMorgan Chase results?
While JPMorgan has passed numerous stress tests lately — actual and hypothetical — it’s possible the bank’s consumers could begin showing more strain from higher interest rates.
Another open question is about succession at JPMorgan after CEO Jamie Dimon acknowledged in May that he now had less than five years remaining in his current role.
The unofficial start of the second-quarter earnings season kicks off Friday with results from banking giants including JPMorgan Chase . Analysts polled by LSEG expect the financial behemoth to report earnings of $4.18 per share on $42.16 billion in revenue. Along with the top- and bottom-line numbers, Wall Street is also keeping close watch on net interest income and guidance. “We are attracted to JPM’s competitive position and believe it has addressed a great deal of its litigation concerns,” said Barclays analyst Jason Goldberg. “We see the greatest sources of potential earnings upside being driven by higher loan growth and capital markets.” JPM YTD mountain Shares in 2024 Shares of JPMorgan have fared well in 2024, rising 22%. The bank’s CEO Jamie Dimon has also made headlines in recent months, warning in April that sticky inflation , wars and the Federal Reserve’s policy pose potential major threats ahead. Analysts will monitor JPMorgan’s 2024 outlook, particularly the trajectory for net interest income given the expectations for a higher-for-longer rate environment, noted Goldman Sachs analyst Richard Ramsden. Earlier this year, the company guided for $91 billion in net interest income, but another upgrade is not out of the question, according to Bank of America’s Ebrahim Poonawala. The firm holds a $226 price target on the stock, suggesting nearly 9% upside from Wednesday’s close. Barclays analyst Goldberg anticipates a slight decrease in net interest income in the second quarter due to a compression in net interest margin. Last year, the company posted $21.9 billion in net interest income for the period. Despite expectations for seasonally lower trading, he also expects strong investment banking activity and net interest income to drive ongoing positive momentum. “Looking out, we expect JPM to point toward stabilizing NII in 2024 with increased expenses on continued investments,” he said. “Still, further loan loss reserve build is likely as credit normalizes.” Wells Fargo analyst Mike Mayo expects realized Visa gains to provide upside to second-quarter earnings per share estimates, resulting in an $8 billion pretax gain that is partially offset by a $1 billion foundation contribution and building loan loss reserves. This could yield “excess capital to be used for buybacks, balance sheet growth, securities portfolio clean-up or other action,” he added, estimating a buyback of about $5 billion over the next couple of quarters. “JPMorgan is a highly diversified bank and a market leader in consumer banking, commercial lending, IB and wealth management,” said Redburn Atlantic’s John Heagerty. “JPMorgan is simply regarded as the highest quality bank in the United States.” He views the uncertain macroeconomic backdrop as a potential opportunity for the company to harness its strong balance sheet to acquire smaller banks.
Jim Cramer’s daily rapid fire looks at stocks in the news outside the CNBC Investing Club portfolio. Corning : Shares of the specialty materials company popped more than 10.5% on Monday after pre-announcing better-than-expected earnings. Management is now forecasting higher revenue and earnings-per-share on the high end of previous guidance for the second quarter. The company is set to report on July 30. Shares of Corning, which makes glass for Apple devices, reached their highest levels since February 2022. Tesla : Shares of the electric vehicle leader made a huge, 27% increase last week after the company delivered better-than-expected second-quarter production and deliveries. The stock jumped another nearly 3% on Monday. Cramer called the rally a short squeeze — meaning investors betting Tesla stock would go down were forced to cover as it ripped higher. JPMorgan : The bank caught a rare downgrade, with Wolfe Research taking its rating to peer perform from outperform (hold from buy) on valuation and exposure to lower net interest income given the threat of lower Federal Reserve interest rates approaching. Cramer said he’s concerned heading into JPMorgan’s second-quarter earnings Friday since there was a big sell-off following its Q1 release in April when the bank guided flat NII for 2024. “I don’t want the stock coming in hot,” he added. Domino’s Pizza : The pizza delivery chain was upgraded to an outperform rating from a neutral (buy from hold) at Baird. The analysts also raised their price target to $580 per share from $530. Baird sees the recent 7.4% pullback in Domino’s stock over the last eight sessions as an opportunity. They cited strong fundamentals, product pipeline, and management. Cramer thought this was a fair call since Domino’s CEO Russell Weiner is “crushing it.” ServiceNow : Shares of the enterprise software company took an over 4% dive on Monday after Guggenheim downgraded the stock to sell from neutral. The analysts said the company will get a boost from its generative artificial intelligence business in the second half of this year but won’t see that momentum into 2025. Cramer said the call was contrary to CEO Bill McDermott’s stance that generative AI offerings have been resonating with customers.
We’re selling 50 shares of Morgan Stanley at roughly $100.04 each and 110 shares of Wells Fargo at roughly $60.65. Following Friday’s trades, Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust will own 1,100 shares of MS, decreasing its 3.3% weighting to from 3.45% and 2,000 shares of WFC, decreasing its weighting to 3.64% from 3.84%. We’re making two small trims and locking in solid gains in our two bank stocks following their strong moves toward their 52-week highs over the past week. Morgan Stanley has rallied more than 4% and Wells Fargo has gained more than 5% since last Thursday’s presidential debate on the increasing probability of a Donald Trump victory. The bank stocks are viewed as beneficiaries of a Trump presidency due to less regulation and a more accommodative stance on mergers and acquisitions, which would benefit their investment banking operations. The election may be months away, but the market is dusting off the playbook that immediately worked in late 2016. Jim Cramer thinks this recent strength is a good opportunity to take profits in a group prone to pullbacks. These sales will also replenish our cash position which was slightly depleted from several buys this past week. “To me, the question is: why not sell some MS and some WFC for more firepower? The positions were built and forged in tougher times. I think they should be trimmed” Cramer said. WFC MS YTD mountain Wells Fargo vs. Morgan Stanley YTD Bank earnings are also on the horizon, with Wells Fargo, JPMorgan , and Citigroup set to report next Friday. Morgan Stanley, Bank of Americ a, and Goldman Sachs report the week after next. These stocks are historically fickle around earnings, providing a reason to take a little off the table with these stocks near highs. “We have bank earnings beginning next week. These stocks do not react well when their stocks are high going into earnings. We need to keep them on but make them slightly smaller. Very simple” Cramer added. From these two sales, we’ll realize a gain of 12% on Morgan Stanley stock bought in July 2021 and a big gain of 77% on Wells stock purchased in January 2021. (Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust is long MS, WFC. See here for a full list of the stocks.) As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust’s portfolio. If Jim has talked about a stock on CNBC TV, he waits 72 hours after issuing the trade alert before executing the trade. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER . NO FIDUCIARY OBLIGATION OR DUTY EXISTS, OR IS CREATED, BY VIRTUE OF YOUR RECEIPT OF ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE INVESTING CLUB. NO SPECIFIC OUTCOME OR PROFIT IS GUARANTEED.
A top strategist at JPMorgan who was caught offside by the stock market rally is quitting the investment firm.
Marko Kolanovic, who served as chief global markets strategist and co-head of global research, is leaving the bank to explore other opportunities, according to a source familiar with the internal announcement.
In his place, Hussein Malik will become the sole head of global research, and Dubravko Lakos-Bujas will serve as chief markets strategist.
Kolanovic rose to prominence among market watchers for correctly predicting a stock market rebound in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. But he has been consistently bearish over the past two years as the market has reached new highs.
JPMorgan’s current year-end prediction for the S&P 500 is 4,200, while no other major firm in the CNBC Market Strategist Survey is below 5,200. JPMorgan’s prediction is officially credited to Lakos-Bujas, who worked under Kolanovic.
The S&P 500 is up more than 15% this year and closed above 5,500 on Tuesday.
News of Kolanovic’s departure was first reported by Bloomberg News.
Natasha Craft, a 25-year-old FedEx driver from Mishawaka, Indiana. She has been locked out of her Yotta banking account since May 11.
Courtesy: Natasha Craft
When Natasha Craft first got a Yotta banking account in 2021, she loved using it so much she told her friends to sign up.
The app made saving money fun and easy, and Craft, a now 25-year-old FedEx driver from Mishawaka, Indiana, was busy getting her financial life in order and planning a wedding. Craft had her wages deposited directly into a Yotta account and used the startup’s debit card to pay for all her expenses.
The app — which gamifies personal finance with weekly sweepstakes and other flashy features — even occasionally covered some of her transactions.
“There were times I would go buy something and get that purchase for free,” Craft told CNBC.
Today, her entire life savings — $7,006 — is locked up in a complicated dispute playing out in bankruptcy court, online forums like Reddit and regulatory channels. And Yotta, an array of other startups and their banks have been caught in a moment of reckoning for the fintech industry.
For customers, fintech promised the best of both worlds: The innovation, ease of use and fun of the newest apps combined with the safety of government-backed accounts held at real banks.
The startups prominently displayed protections afforded by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., lending credibility to their novel offerings. After all, since its 1934 inception, no depositor “has ever lost a penny of FDIC-insured deposits,” according to the agency’s website.
But the widening fallout over the collapse of a fintech middleman called Synapse has revealed that promise of safety as a mirage.
Starting May 11, more than 100,000 Americans with $265 million in deposits were locked out of their accounts. Roughly 85,000 of those customers were at Yotta alone, according to the startup’s co-founder, Adam Moelis.
CNBC reached out to fintech customers whose lives have been upended by the Synapse debacle.
They come from all walks and stages of life, from Craft, the Indiana FedEx driver; to the owner of a chain of preschools in Oakland, California; a talent analyst for Disney living in New York City; and a computer engineer in Santa Barbara, California. A high school teacher in Maryland. A parent in Bristol, Connecticut, who opened an account for his daughter. A social worker in Seattle saving up for dental work after Adderall abuse ruined her teeth.
Since Yotta, like most popular fintech apps, wasn’t itself a bank, it relied on partner institutions including Tennessee-based Evolve Bank & Trust to offer checking accounts and debit cards. In between Yotta and Evolve was a crucial middleman, Synapse, keeping track of balances and monitoring fraud.
Founded in 2014 by a first-time entrepreneur named Sankaet Pathak, Synapse was a player in the “banking-as-a-service” segment alongside companies like Unit and Synctera. Synapse helped customer-facing startups like Yotta quickly access the rails of the regulated banking industry.
It had contracts with 100 fintech companies and 10 million end users, according to an April court filing.
Until recently, the BaaS model was a growth engine that seemed to benefit everybody. Instead of spending years and millions of dollars trying to acquire or become banks, startups got quick access to essential services they needed to offer. The small banks that catered to them got a source of deposits in a time dominated by giants like JPMorgan Chase.
But in May, Synapse, in the throes of bankruptcy, turned off a critical system that Yotta’s bank used to process transactions. In doing so, it threw thousands of Americans into financial limbo, and a growing segment of the fintech industry into turmoil.
“There is a reckoning underway that involves questions about the banking-as-a-service model,” said Michele Alt, a former lawyer for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and a current partner at consulting firm Klaros Group. She believes the Synapse failure will prove to be an “aberration,” she added.
The most popular finance apps in the country, including Block’s Cash App, PayPal and Chime, partner with banks instead of owning them. They account for 60% of all new fintech account openings, according to data provider Curinos. Block and PayPal are publicly traded; Chime is expected to launch an IPO next year.
Block, PayPal and Chime didn’t provide comment for this article.
While industry experts say those firms have far more robust ledgering and daily reconciliation abilities than Synapse, they may still be riskier than direct bank relationships, especially for those relying on them as a primary account.
“If it’s your spending money, you need to be dealing directly with a bank,” Scott Sanborn, CEO of LendingClub, told CNBC. “Otherwise, how do you, as a consumer, know if the conditions are met to get FDIC coverage?”
Sanborn knows both sides of the fintech divide: LendingClub started as a fintech lender that partnered with banks until it bought Boston-based Radius in early 2020 for $185 million, eventually becoming a fully regulated bank.
Scott Sanborn, LendingClub CEO
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Sanborn said acquiring Radius Bank opened his eyes to the risks of the “banking-as-a-service” space. Regulators focus not on Synapse and other middlemen, but on the banks they partner with, expecting them to monitor risks and prevent fraud and money laundering, he said.
But many of the tiny banks running BaaS businesses like Radius simply don’t have the personnel or resources to do the job properly, Sanborn said. He shuttered most of the lender’s fintech business as soon as he could, he says.
“We are one of those people who said, ‘Something bad is going to happen,’” Sanborn said.
A spokeswoman for the Financial Technology Association, a Washington, D.C.-based trade group representing large players including Block, PayPal and Chime, said in a statement that it is “inaccurate to claim that banks are the only trusted actors in financial services.”
“Consumers and small businesses trust fintech companies to better meet their needs and provide more accessible, affordable, and secure services than incumbent providers,” the spokeswoman said.
“Established fintech companies are well-regulated and work with partner banks to build strong compliance programs that protect consumer funds,” she said. Furthermore, regulators ought to take a “risk-based approach” to supervising fintech-bank partnerships, she added.
The implications of the Synapse disaster may be far-reaching. Regulators have already been moving to punish the banks that provide services to fintechs, and that will undoubtedly continue. Evolve itself was reprimanded by the Federal Reserve last month for failing to properly manage its fintech partnerships.
In a post-Synapse update, the FDIC made it clear that the failure of nonbanks won’t trigger FDIC insurance, and that even when fintechs partner with banks, customers may not have their deposits covered.
The FDIC’s exact language about whether fintech customers are eligible for coverage: “The short answer is: it depends.”
While their circumstances all differed vastly, each of the customers CNBC spoke to for this story had one thing in common: They thought the FDIC backing of Evolve meant that their funds were safe.
“For us, it just felt like they were a bank,” the Oakland preschool owner said of her fintech provider, a tuition processor called Curacubby. “You’d tell them what to bill, they bill it. They’d communicate with parents, and we get the money.”
The 62-year-old business owner, who asked CNBC to withhold her name because she didn’t want to alarm employees and parents of her schools, said she’s taken out loans and tapped credit lines after $236,287 in tuition was frozen in May.
Now, the prospect of selling her business and retiring in a few years seems much further out.
“I’m assuming I probably won’t see that money,” she said, “And if I do, how long is it going to take?”
When Rick Davies, a 46-year-old lead engineer for a men’s clothing company that owns online brands including Taylor Stitch, signed up for an account with crypto app Juno, he says he “distinctly remembers” being comforted by seeing the FDIC logo of Evolve.
“It was front and center on their website,” Davies said. “They made it clear that it was Evolve doing the banking, which I knew as a fintech provider. The whole package seemed legit to me.”
He’s now had roughly $10,000 frozen for weeks, and says he’s become enraged that the FDIC hasn’t helped customers yet.
For Davies, the situation is even more baffling after regulators swiftly took action to seize Silicon Valley Bank last year, protecting uninsured depositors including tech investors and wealthy families in the process. His employer banked with SVB, which collapsed after clients withdrew deposits en masse, so he saw how fast action by regulators can head off distress.
“The dichotomy between the FDIC stepping in extremely quickly for San Francisco-based tech companies and their impotence in the face of this similar, more consumer-oriented situation is infuriating,” Davies said.
The key difference with SVB is that none of the banks linked with Synapse have failed, and because of that, the regulator hasn’t moved to help impacted users.
Consumers can be forgiven for not understanding the nuance of FDIC protection, said Alt, the former OCC lawyer.
“What consumers understood was, ‘This is as safe as money in the bank,’” Alt said. “But the FDIC insurance isn’t a pot of money to generally make people whole, it is there to make depositors of a failed bank whole.”
For the customers involved in the Synapse mess, the worst-case scenario is playing out.
While some customers have had funds released in recent weeks, most are still waiting. Those later in line may never see a full payout: There is a shortfall of up to $96 million in funds that are owed to customers, according to the court-appointed bankruptcy trustee.
That’s because of Synapse’s shoddy ledgers and its system of pooling users’ money across a network of banks in ways that make it difficult to reconstruct who is owed what, according to court filings.
The situation is so tangled that Jelena McWilliams, a former FDIC chairman now acting as trustee over the Synapse bankruptcy, has said that finding all the customer money may be impossible.
Despite weeks of work, there appears to be little progress toward fixing the hardest part of the Synapse mess: Users whose funds were pooled in “for benefit of,” or FBO, accounts. The technique has been used by brokerages for decades to give wealth management customers FDIC coverage on their cash, but its use in fintech is more novel.
“If it’s in an FBO account, you don’t even know who the end customer is, you just have this giant account,” said LendingClub’s Sanborn. “You’re trusting the fintech to do the work.”
While McWilliams has floated a partial payment to end users weeks ago, an idea that has support from Yotta co-founder Moelis and others, that hasn’t happened yet. Getting consensus from the banks has proven difficult, and the bankruptcy judge has openly mused about which regulator or body of government can force them to act.
The case is “uncharted territory,” Judge Martin Barash said, and because depositors’ funds aren’t the property of the Synapse estate, Barash said it wasn’t clear what his court could do.
Evolve has said in filings that it has “great pause” about making any payments until a full reconciliation happens. It has further said that Synapse ledgers show that nearly all of the deposits held for Yotta were missing, while Synapse has said that Evolve holds the funds.
“I don’t know who’s right or who’s wrong,” Moelis told CNBC. “We know how much money came into the system, and we are certain that that’s the correct number. The money doesn’t just disappear; it has to be somewhere.”
In the meantime, the former Synapse CEO and Evolve have had an eventful few weeks.
Pathak, who dialed into early bankruptcy hearings while in Santorini, Greece, has since been attempting to raise funds for a new robotics startup, using marketing materials with misleading claims about its ties with automaker General Motors.
And only days after being censured by the Federal Reserve about its management of technology partners, Evolve was attacked by Russian hackers who posted user data from an array of fintech firms, including Social Security numbers, to a dark web forum for criminals.
For customers, it’s mostly been a waiting game.
Craft, the Indiana FexEx driver, said she had to borrow money from her mother and grandmother for expenses. She worries about how she’ll pay for catering at her upcoming wedding.
“We were led to believe that our money was FDIC-insured at Yotta, as it was plastered all over the website,” Craft said. “Finding out that what FDIC really means, that was the biggest punch to the gut.”
She now has an account at Chase, the largest and most profitable American bank in history.
(L-R) Brian Moynihan, Chairman and CEO of Bank of America; Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase; and Jane Fraser, CEO of Citigroup; testify during a Senate Banking Committee hearing at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 6, 2023.
JPMorgan, the biggest U.S. bank by assets, said it was raising its quarterly dividend 8.7% to $1.25 per share and that it authorized a new $30 billion share repurchase program.
Morgan Stanley, a dominant player in wealth management, said it was boosting its dividend 8.8% to 92.5 cents per share and authorized a $20 billion repurchase plan.
Citigroup said it was raising its dividend 5.7% to 56 cents per share and that it would “continue to assess share repurchases” on a quarterly basis.
Bank of America said it was increasing its dividend 8% to 26 cents per share. Its release made no mention of share repurchases.
The big banks announced their plans to boost capital return to shareholders after passing the annual stress test administered by the Federal Reserve this week. While all 31 banks in this year’s exam showed regulators they could withstand a severe hypothetical recession, JPMorgan said Wednesday that it could have higher losses than the Fed initially found.
Still, that would not affect its capital-return plan, the New York-based bank said Friday.
“The strength of our company allows us to continually invest in building our businesses for the future, pay a sustainable dividend, and return any remaining excess capital to our shareholders as we see fit,” JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said in his company’s release.
JPMorgan’s dividend increase was its second this year, Dimon noted.
JPMorgan Chase CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon gestures as he speaks during the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee oversight hearing on Wall Street firms, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
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JPMorgan Chase said late Wednesday that the Federal Reserve overestimated a key measure of income in the giant bank’s recent stress test, and that its losses under the exam should actually be higher than what the regulator found.
The bank took the unusual step of issuing a press release minutes before midnight ET to disclose its response to the Fed’s findings.
JPMorgan said that the Fed’s projections for a measure called “other comprehensive income” — which represents revenues, expenses and losses that are excluded from net income — “appears to be too large.”
Under the Fed’s table of projected revenue, income and losses though 2026, JPMorgan was assigned $13 billion in OCI, more than any of the 31 lenders in this year’s test. It also estimated that the bank would face roughly $107 billion in loan, investment and trading losses in that scenario.
“Should the Firm’s analysis be correct, the resulting stress losses would be modestly higher than those disclosed by the Federal Reserve,” the bank said.
The error means that JPMorgan might require more time to finalize its share repurchase plan, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. Banks were expected to begin disclosing those plans on Friday after the market closes.
The news is a wrinkle to the Federal Reserve’s announcement yesterday that all 31 of the banks in the annual exercise cleared the hurdle of being able to withstand a severe hypothetical recession, while maintaining adequate capital levels and the ability to lend to consumers and corporations.
Last year, Bank of America and Citigroup made similar disclosures, saying that estimates of their own future income differed from the Fed’s results.
Banks have complained that aspects of the annual exam are opaque and that it’s difficult to understand how the Fed produces some of its results.
Cantor Fitzgerald Investment Advisors L.P. bought a new stake in JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM – Free Report) during the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm bought 149,589 shares of the financial services provider’s stock, valued at approximately $25,445,000. JPMorgan Chase & Co. comprises about 2.0% of Cantor Fitzgerald Investment Advisors L.P.’s holdings, making the stock its 9th biggest position.
A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in JPM. Norges Bank acquired a new stake in shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. during the 4th quarter worth approximately $6,016,878,000. International Assets Investment Management LLC acquired a new stake in shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. during the 4th quarter worth approximately $1,017,893,000. Wellington Management Group LLP grew its holdings in shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. by 12.2% during the 3rd quarter. Wellington Management Group LLP now owns 42,421,711 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $6,151,997,000 after purchasing an additional 4,603,090 shares in the last quarter. J.P. Morgan Private Wealth Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $253,076,000. Finally, Cerity Partners LLC grew its holdings in shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. by 155.2% during the 4th quarter. Cerity Partners LLC now owns 2,246,582 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $382,144,000 after purchasing an additional 1,366,360 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 71.55% of the company’s stock.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Trading Up 1.9 %
Shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. stock traded up $3.79 during trading on Monday, reaching $200.71. 7,356,200 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 9,297,501. The company has a quick ratio of 0.92, a current ratio of 0.92 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.29. JPMorgan Chase & Co. has a twelve month low of $134.40 and a twelve month high of $205.88. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $194.71 and a 200-day moving average price of $178.52. The firm has a market capitalization of $576.37 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 12.12, a P/E/G ratio of 2.72 and a beta of 1.13.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM – Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Friday, April 12th. The financial services provider reported $4.63 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $4.18 by $0.45. JPMorgan Chase & Co. had a return on equity of 17.79% and a net margin of 20.05%. The business had revenue of $41.93 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $40.90 billion. Sell-side analysts anticipate that JPMorgan Chase & Co. will post 16.32 EPS for the current fiscal year.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Dividend Announcement
The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, July 31st. Investors of record on Friday, July 5th will be paid a dividend of $1.15 per share. The ex-dividend date is Friday, July 5th. This represents a $4.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.29%. JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 27.78%.
Analyst Ratings Changes
Several analysts recently commented on the company. Evercore ISI boosted their price target on JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $188.00 to $210.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, April 4th. Oppenheimer decreased their price target on JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $219.00 to $217.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research note on Monday, April 15th. Jefferies Financial Group boosted their price target on JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $202.00 to $228.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Monday, April 8th. Piper Sandler boosted their price target on JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $215.00 to $220.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Tuesday, May 21st. Finally, Morgan Stanley decreased their price target on JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $216.00 to $214.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, May 21st. Nine equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and thirteen have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $194.10.
In other JPMorgan Chase & Co. news, insider Robin Leopold sold 3,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, May 10th. The stock was sold at an average price of $198.86, for a total value of $596,580.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider now directly owns 44,113 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $8,772,311.18. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. In other JPMorgan Chase & Co. news, insider Robin Leopold sold 3,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, May 10th. The stock was sold at an average price of $198.86, for a total value of $596,580.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider now directly owns 44,113 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $8,772,311.18. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, General Counsel Stacey Friedman sold 4,415 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, May 20th. The shares were sold at an average price of $200.65, for a total value of $885,869.75. Following the completion of the transaction, the general counsel now directly owns 42,124 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $8,452,180.60. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold a total of 249,399 shares of company stock valued at $46,713,667 over the last three months. Company insiders own 0.79% of the company’s stock.
JPMorgan Chase & Co operates as a financial services company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Consumer & Community Banking (CCB), Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB), Commercial Banking (CB), and Asset & Wealth Management (AWM). The CCB segment offers deposit, investment and lending products, cash management, and payments and services; mortgage origination and servicing activities; residential mortgages and home equity loans; and credit cards, auto loans, leases, and travel services to consumers and small businesses through bank branches, ATMs, and digital and telephone banking.
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Fairhaven Wealth Management LLC trimmed its stake in shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) by 1.3% in the fourth quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 30,010 shares of the financial services provider’s stock after selling 383 shares during the quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. comprises 1.9% of Fairhaven Wealth Management LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 11th biggest holding. Fairhaven Wealth Management LLC’s holdings in JPMorgan Chase & Co. were worth $5,105,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
A number of other hedge funds also recently added to or reduced their stakes in JPM. Etfidea LLC raised its stake in shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. by 5.4% during the 4th quarter. Etfidea LLC now owns 1,937 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $329,000 after buying an additional 100 shares in the last quarter. TKG Advisors LLC grew its stake in shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. by 97.6% during the 3rd quarter. TKG Advisors LLC now owns 13,205 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $1,915,000 after purchasing an additional 6,521 shares during the period. Sutton Place Investors LLC lifted its stake in shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. by 179.5% in the fourth quarter. Sutton Place Investors LLC now owns 13,099 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $2,228,000 after purchasing an additional 8,412 shares during the period. Allen Investment Management LLC lifted its stake in shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. by 15.8% in the third quarter. Allen Investment Management LLC now owns 174,738 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $25,341,000 after purchasing an additional 23,894 shares during the period. Finally, Breakwater Capital Group boosted its holdings in JPMorgan Chase & Co. by 12.3% during the third quarter. Breakwater Capital Group now owns 8,558 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $1,189,000 after buying an additional 934 shares in the last quarter. 71.55% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Insider Activity at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
In other JPMorgan Chase & Co. news, insider Lori A. Beer sold 3,920 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, February 22nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $182.74, for a total transaction of $716,340.80. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now owns 44,996 shares in the company, valued at approximately $8,222,569.04. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. In other JPMorgan Chase & Co. news, CEO Marianne Lake sold 11,734 shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. stock in a transaction on Tuesday, May 14th. The shares were sold at an average price of $200.02, for a total value of $2,347,034.68. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer now owns 122,740 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $24,550,454.80. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. Also, insider Lori A. Beer sold 3,920 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, February 22nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $182.74, for a total transaction of $716,340.80. Following the sale, the insider now directly owns 44,996 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $8,222,569.04. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last 90 days, insiders sold 1,071,414 shares of company stock valued at $196,746,504. Insiders own 0.79% of the company’s stock.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Trading Up 1.1 %
NYSE JPM opened at $204.79 on Monday. The stock has a market cap of $588.09 billion, a P/E ratio of 12.37, a PEG ratio of 2.52 and a beta of 1.13. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $193.84 and its 200-day simple moving average is $176.60. The company has a current ratio of 0.92, a quick ratio of 0.92 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.29. JPMorgan Chase & Co. has a 52 week low of $134.40 and a 52 week high of $205.05.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM – Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings results on Friday, April 12th. The financial services provider reported $4.63 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $4.18 by $0.45. The firm had revenue of $41.93 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $40.90 billion. JPMorgan Chase & Co. had a net margin of 20.05% and a return on equity of 17.79%. Equities research analysts predict that JPMorgan Chase & Co. will post 16.22 EPS for the current fiscal year.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Increases Dividend
The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, April 30th. Investors of record on Friday, April 5th were paid a $1.15 dividend. This is a boost from JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s previous quarterly dividend of $1.05. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, April 4th. This represents a $4.60 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.25%. JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s payout ratio is 27.78%.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
Several equities research analysts have recently commented on JPM shares. BMO Capital Markets decreased their price target on JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $196.00 to $195.00 and set a “market perform” rating on the stock in a research note on Monday, April 15th. Jefferies Financial Group lifted their price objective on JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $202.00 to $228.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Monday, April 8th. Piper Sandler lowered their target price on JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $220.00 to $215.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a report on Monday, April 15th. Morgan Stanley cut their price target on JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $221.00 to $216.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research note on Monday, April 15th. Finally, UBS Group dropped their target price on shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $226.00 to $219.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, April 16th. Eight research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and thirteen have given a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $192.05.
JPMorgan Chase & Co operates as a financial services company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Consumer & Community Banking (CCB), Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB), Commercial Banking (CB), and Asset & Wealth Management (AWM). The CCB segment offers deposit, investment and lending products, cash management, and payments and services; mortgage origination and servicing activities; residential mortgages and home equity loans; and credit cards, auto loans, leases, and travel services to consumers and small businesses through bank branches, ATMs, and digital and telephone banking.
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Kozak & Associates Inc. decreased its position in shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) by 10.8% during the 4th quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The firm owned 8,242 shares of the financial services provider’s stock after selling 994 shares during the quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. accounts for 0.4% of Kozak & Associates Inc.’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 16th biggest holding. Kozak & Associates Inc.’s holdings in JPMorgan Chase & Co. were worth $1,385,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Other hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Curbstone Financial Management Corp boosted its stake in JPMorgan Chase & Co. by 0.3% in the fourth quarter. Curbstone Financial Management Corp now owns 23,930 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $4,070,000 after acquiring an additional 60 shares during the last quarter. Grey Street Capital LLC boosted its stake in JPMorgan Chase & Co. by 0.9% in the fourth quarter. Grey Street Capital LLC now owns 6,994 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $1,190,000 after acquiring an additional 60 shares during the last quarter. Sendero Wealth Management LLC boosted its stake in JPMorgan Chase & Co. by 1.1% in the fourth quarter. Sendero Wealth Management LLC now owns 5,811 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $988,000 after acquiring an additional 62 shares during the last quarter. Raleigh Capital Management Inc. boosted its stake in JPMorgan Chase & Co. by 0.8% in the third quarter. Raleigh Capital Management Inc. now owns 8,151 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $1,182,000 after acquiring an additional 64 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Affinity Wealth Management LLC boosted its stake in JPMorgan Chase & Co. by 0.4% in the second quarter. Affinity Wealth Management LLC now owns 19,082 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $2,775,000 after acquiring an additional 68 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 71.55% of the company’s stock.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
JPM has been the topic of a number of recent research reports. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft raised shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and raised their price objective for the company from $140.00 to $190.00 in a research note on Tuesday, January 9th. Royal Bank of Canada reissued an “outperform” rating and set a $185.00 price target on shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. in a research report on Wednesday, March 20th. The Goldman Sachs Group reissued a “buy” rating on shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. in a research report on Thursday, February 1st. Barclays lifted their price target on shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $186.00 to $212.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Tuesday, January 2nd. Finally, BMO Capital Markets lifted their price target on shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $192.00 to $194.00 and gave the stock a “market perform” rating in a research report on Tuesday, January 16th. Eight analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and twelve have assigned a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $181.63.
In related news, Vice Chairman Peter Scher sold 1,812 shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, January 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $166.65, for a total transaction of $301,969.80. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now owns 46,766 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $7,793,553.90. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. In other JPMorgan Chase & Co. news, Vice Chairman Peter Scher sold 1,812 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, January 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $166.65, for a total value of $301,969.80. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now owns 46,766 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $7,793,553.90. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website. Also, CEO Jennifer Piepszak sold 1,648 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, February 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $178.96, for a total transaction of $294,926.08. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer now owns 32,819 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $5,873,288.24. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 849,303 shares of company stock worth $155,107,447 in the last ninety days. Insiders own 0.79% of the company’s stock.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Trading Up 0.4 %
Shares of NYSE:JPM opened at $200.29 on Friday. The company has a quick ratio of 0.91, a current ratio of 0.91 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.30. JPMorgan Chase & Co. has a 12 month low of $126.22 and a 12 month high of $200.72. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $182.22 and its 200 day simple moving average is $163.62. The firm has a market cap of $576.91 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 12.35, a PEG ratio of 2.49 and a beta of 1.14.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM – Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Friday, January 12th. The financial services provider reported $3.04 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $3.73 by ($0.69). JPMorgan Chase & Co. had a net margin of 20.70% and a return on equity of 17.80%. The business had revenue of $38.57 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $39.73 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $3.57 earnings per share. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 11.7% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, research analysts forecast that JPMorgan Chase & Co. will post 15.75 EPS for the current fiscal year.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Increases Dividend
The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, April 30th. Stockholders of record on Friday, April 5th will be paid a dividend of $1.15 per share. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, April 4th. This is a positive change from JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s previous quarterly dividend of $1.05. This represents a $4.60 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.30%. JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s payout ratio is currently 25.89%.
JPMorgan Chase & Co operates as a financial services company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Consumer & Community Banking (CCB), Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB), Commercial Banking (CB), and Asset & Wealth Management (AWM). The CCB segment offers deposit, investment and lending products, cash management, and payments and services; mortgage origination and servicing activities; residential mortgages and home equity loans; and credit cards, auto loans, leases, and travel services to consumers and small businesses through bank branches, ATMs, and digital and telephone banking.
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B & T Capital Management DBA Alpha Capital Management cut its position in JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) by 0.8% during the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 48,060 shares of the financial services provider’s stock after selling 367 shares during the period. JPMorgan Chase & Co. accounts for about 1.7% of B & T Capital Management DBA Alpha Capital Management’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 16th biggest position. B & T Capital Management DBA Alpha Capital Management’s holdings in JPMorgan Chase & Co. were worth $8,175,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Moneta Group Investment Advisors LLC lifted its position in shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. by 105,652.2% during the fourth quarter. Moneta Group Investment Advisors LLC now owns 98,000,567 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $13,141,876,000 after purchasing an additional 97,907,897 shares in the last quarter. Norges Bank acquired a new position in shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. during the fourth quarter worth approximately $3,894,646,000. Morgan Stanley raised its stake in shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. by 15.9% during the fourth quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 59,049,256 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $7,918,506,000 after buying an additional 8,088,433 shares during the last quarter. Wellington Management Group LLP raised its stake in shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. by 12.2% during the third quarter. Wellington Management Group LLP now owns 42,421,711 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $6,151,997,000 after buying an additional 4,603,090 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Barclays PLC raised its stake in shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. by 51.6% during the second quarter. Barclays PLC now owns 8,422,975 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $1,225,037,000 after buying an additional 2,868,091 shares during the last quarter. 71.55% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Insider Buying and Selling at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
In other news, insider Ashley Bacon sold 3,368 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, January 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $166.73, for a total transaction of $561,546.64. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now owns 205,461 shares in the company, valued at approximately $34,256,512.53. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. In other news, insider Ashley Bacon sold 3,368 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, January 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $166.73, for a total transaction of $561,546.64. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now owns 205,461 shares in the company, valued at approximately $34,256,512.53. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. Also, insider Lori A. Beer sold 3,920 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, February 22nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $182.74, for a total transaction of $716,340.80. Following the sale, the insider now owns 44,996 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $8,222,569.04. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold a total of 845,383 shares of company stock worth $154,341,636 over the last quarter. 0.79% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
JPM has been the subject of a number of recent research reports. Bank of America boosted their price target on shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $177.00 to $188.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, January 4th. Morgan Stanley boosted their price target on shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $191.00 to $221.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Tuesday, January 30th. Barclays boosted their price target on shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $186.00 to $212.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Tuesday, January 2nd. Oppenheimer dropped their price target on shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $238.00 to $219.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research note on Tuesday, March 19th. Finally, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft raised shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and boosted their price target for the stock from $140.00 to $190.00 in a research note on Tuesday, January 9th. Eight investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and twelve have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, JPMorgan Chase & Co. presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $181.63.
Shares of JPM opened at $195.83 on Wednesday. JPMorgan Chase & Co. has a 12 month low of $126.22 and a 12 month high of $200.48. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $181.02 and a 200 day simple moving average of $163.00. The stock has a market capitalization of $564.06 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 12.07, a PEG ratio of 2.48 and a beta of 1.14. The company has a current ratio of 0.91, a quick ratio of 0.91 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.30.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM – Get Free Report) last announced its earnings results on Friday, January 12th. The financial services provider reported $3.04 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $3.73 by ($0.69). JPMorgan Chase & Co. had a return on equity of 17.80% and a net margin of 20.70%. The business had revenue of $38.57 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $39.73 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $3.57 EPS. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 11.7% compared to the same quarter last year. Research analysts forecast that JPMorgan Chase & Co. will post 15.84 EPS for the current fiscal year.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Increases Dividend
The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, April 30th. Shareholders of record on Friday, April 5th will be paid a $1.15 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, April 4th. This represents a $4.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.35%. This is a boost from JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s previous quarterly dividend of $1.05. JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 25.89%.
JPMorgan Chase & Co operates as a financial services company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Consumer & Community Banking (CCB), Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB), Commercial Banking (CB), and Asset & Wealth Management (AWM). The CCB segment offers deposit, investment and lending products, cash management, and payments and services; mortgage origination and servicing activities; residential mortgages and home equity loans; and credit cards, auto loans, leases, and travel services to consumers and small businesses through bank branches, ATMs, and digital and telephone banking.
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He has a twin brother, Theodore Dimon Jr., who is the founder of the Dimon Institute in New York.
1982-1985 – Assistant to American Express president Sandy Weill.
1996-1997 – Chairman and CEO of Smith Barney.
1997-1998 – Co-chairman and co-CEO of Salomon Smith Barney Holdings.
1998 – President of Citigroup. Dimon is forced out of the company after a falling-out with Weill.
2000-2004 – Chairman and CEO of Bank One Corporation.
2004 – Becomes president and chief operating officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co. when it merges with Bank One Corporation.
December 31, 2005 – Assumes title of chief executive officer and president at JPMorgan Chase & Co., effective January 1, 2006.
December 31, 2006 – Named chairman of the board at JPMorgan Chase & Co., effective January 1, 2007.
2011 – Earned $23.1 million in compensation as chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co., making him the best paid bank CEO.
May 10, 2012 – On a conference call, reveals that a trading portfolio that was designed to help JPMorgan Chase hedge its credit risk lost $2 billion and could lose $1 billion more.
May 15, 2012 – Apologizes to JPMorgan Chase shareholders at the annual meeting. Shareholders approve Dimon’s $23 million pay package and preliminary results show that only 40% support a proposal that calls for the appointment of an independent chairman.
May 17, 2012 – Senate Banking Committee announces Dimon has been invited to appear before the committee at hearings looking into the JP Morgan trading losses from a regulatory angle.
June 13, 2012 – Dimon testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee telling senators that while he did not approve the trades that led to the multi-billion dollar loss, he was aware of it.
June 19, 2012 – Dimon testifies before the House Financial Services Committee and says that he did not mislead shareholders.
July 13, 2012 – JPMorgan announces that the trading loss originally believed to be $2 billion is now approximately $5.8 billion. JPMorgan later discloses that the loss increased to $6.2 billion in the third quarter.
2012 – Due to the London Whale losses, Dimon’s pay package is reduced to $11.5 million, down from the previous year’s $23.1 million.
January 23, 2013 – Dimon apologizes to the shareholders by stating that the “whale” trade that caused the $6 billion loss was a “terrible mistake.”
May 21, 2013–Approximately 68% of JPMorgan Chase stockholders vote to keep Dimon as chairman and CEO at the annual meeting, but three directors on the risk committee receive a narrow majority of only between 51% and 59% of votes.
September 19, 2013 – JPMorgan Chase agrees to pay about $920 million in fines to US and UK regulators to settle charges related to the “London Whale” trading scandal.
November 19, 2013 – Officials announce JPMorgan Chase has agreed to a $13 billion settlement to resolve several investigations into the bank’s mortgage securities business. According to the Justice Department, the deal is the “the largest settlement with a single entity in American history.”
January 24, 2014 – Dimon gets a 74% pay hike for 2013, even though JPMorgan Chase & Co was forced to pay billions in fines and settlements last year. In a government filing, JPMorgan Chase says that Dimon will receive $18.5 million worth of restricted stock that will vest over the next three years as his 2013 bonus. That’s up from a $10 million bonus for 2012. His $1.5 million base salary remains unchanged.
July 1, 2014 – Dimon releases a memo saying that he has been diagnosed with a curable throat cancer. He will receive radiation and chemotherapy treatment over the next eight weeks at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York, but will remain working while undergoing treatment.
March 5, 2020 – In a letter to employees, shareholders and clients, JPMorgan Chase’s co-COOs Gordon Smith and Daniel Pinto announce that Dimon is recovering after undergoing emergency heart surgery. Dimon required surgery after experiencing an “acute aortic dissection,” a tear in the inner lining of the aorta blood vessel.
