Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, leaves the U.S. Capitol after a gathering with Republican members of the Senate Banking, Housing and City Affairs Committee on the difficulty of debanking on Thursday, February 13, 2025.
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JPMorgan Chase on Friday reported outcomes that topped estimates on higher-than-expected income, helped by booming fairness buying and selling exercise.
Here is what the corporate reported:
- Earnings: $5.07 a share, could not evaluate with the $4.61 a share LSEG estimate
- Income: $46.01 billion vs. anticipated $44.11 billion
The financial institution mentioned that first quarter revenue rose 9% to $14.64 billion, or $5.07 a share. Excluding a one-time achieve of 16 cents per share tied to its First Republic acquisition, JPM earned $4.91 per share.
Income rose 8% to $46.01 billion, helped by greater asset administration and funding banking charges and robust buying and selling outcomes.
Shares of the agency rose about 2% in premarket buying and selling.
Whereas JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon touted his firm’s strong leads to the quarter, he additionally struck a word of warning on the broader economic system. Markets have whipsawed violently since President Donald Trump escalated international commerce tensions final week.
“The economic system is dealing with appreciable turbulence (together with geopolitics), with the potential positives of tax reform and deregulation and the potential negatives of tariffs and ‘commerce wars,’ ongoing sticky inflation, excessive fiscal deficits and nonetheless reasonably excessive asset costs and volatility,” Dimon mentioned.
“As at all times, we hope for the very best however put together the Agency for a variety of situations,” he added.
The shortage of certainty within the enterprise surroundings for a lot of firms was anticipated to forged a pall over some funding banking actions, together with IPO listings and merger recommendation.
However it was additionally anticipated to offer a very good surroundings for Wall Avenue buying and selling desks to print cash.
Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley are additionally out with quarterly reviews report Friday. Morgan Stanley equally reported surging buying and selling exercise.
Goldman Sachs, Financial institution of America and Citigroup report subsequent week.
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