Wells Fargo (WFC) worried about the past for years. Now it can concentrate on the future.
The fourth largest American bank is planning to pursue the growth and expansion of investment banking, credit cards and asset management now that it has demolished an important growth limitation that has been imposed by supervisors in recent decade as a punishment for a fake calculation scandal that has established the San Francisco -based financial institution in San Francisco.
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“Now I can get more fun,” said Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf last week in an interview with Wall Street Journal.
Het opheffen van een activapap van $ 1,95 biljoen zal Scharf helpen in het offensief te gaan terwijl hij probeert Wells Fargo te maken tot een grote speler van de investeringsbankieren in Wall Street, die dieper in een hypercompetitief bedrijf komt waar het achterblijft achter Wall Street Giants zoals Goldman Sachs (GS), JPMorgan Chase (JPM) en Morgan Stanley (MS).
Scharf in fact told the Wall Street Journal that he wants Wells Fargo to be one of the top five investment banks, and “then there will be an argument about:” Well, why top five? Why not four or three? “
In Main Street, Wells Fargo also wants to overtake after missing important opportunities to generate deposits during the COVID-19 Pandemie and the Regional Banking Unrest in 2023. It also wants to add more credit card products and better integrate its retail films.
The growing pins under the asset jap have had wells Fargo for years in an increasing disadvantage behind larger rivals – “the gift that continues to give” for competitors, Piper Sandler Bank analyst told Yahoo Finance to Yahoo Finance.
Growing its American consumer bank is where the “heavy work” is needed to move the shares of Wells Fargo higher, TD Securities analyst Steven Alexopoulos added in a note last week. The consumer company moves in almost half of the bank's income.
Yet “the growth in this area is far from a layout”, Alexopoulos added.
Even after he had passed his crucial milestone, the shares of Wells Fargo did not rise and ended 2%last week. But it has risen by 30% in the last 12 months, prior to Rivals Citigroup (C) and Bank of America (BAC) during the lagging of JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs.
“We have not changed EPS estimates … But now and in the course of time I think they are in a growth mode and ideally the profit mode for market share,” said Piper Sandler's siefers.
One place Wall Street expects Wells Fargo to show faster improvement in the short term are the expenditure for risk and compliance costs.
For years, the bank has fed millions to increase those activities to meet the expectations of the supervisors. Now that the growth restrictions from Wells Fargo have been removed, analysts hope that many of the extra expenses will be plowed back to grow the bank.
