JP Morgan Chase & Co Earnings
EPS of $0.82 vs. $0.51 consensus. Main contribution came from fixed income revenues; half of the net income coming from investment banking; retail services & credit card divisions suffering. Earnings presentation.
Solid performance; excellent capital ratios.
From the outlook section: “If economy weakens further, additional reserving actions may be required.” Normalization of investment banking revenues expected (decrease); Large write offs on the credit card, mortgage and home equity loans.
Some nice delinquency graphs:
Chart 1. JPM Credit Card Delinquency Trend
Chart 2. JPM Home Equity Delinquency Trend
Chart 3. JPM Prime Mortgage Delinquency Trend
Chart 4. JPM Subprime Card Delinquency Trend
It’s not slowing. I will not bring down JPM, bur some weaker banks could be hit.
October 14th, 2009 at 8:09 am
Why the taxes sky high like that?
October 14th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Well, as I understand U.S taxes the rate is 35%; here we have 30.6%, in Q2 33.1%; it doesn’t look high to me.