3-Year High for Wells Fargo Mortgage Originations

Stock performance in last five sessions is recorded as -3.87% while year to date (YTD) performance is 4.09%.

Shares of Wells Fargo have risen 0.8% to $54.96 at 12:40 p.m. today. Analysts typically do not include one-time gains and charges in their forecasts. The stock is now showing its Return on Assets (ROA) value of 1.1 Percent.

Wells, the second-largest USA bank by assets and the largest mortgage lender, was one of three big Wall Street institutions to report Friday and the only one to miss.

The new incentive system, according to the San Francisco banking giant, will no longer reward employees simply for opening accounts and they will instead receive part of their overall salary based on how the products they sell are used, and the customers’ satisfaction with the bank’s service will serve as one of the factors.

Wells Fargo’s retail banking sales practices remediation plan update continued to be a main focus of its earnings report, with the scandal announcement only coming out four months ago. Analysts had been expecting earnings of $1 per share and $22.45 billion in revenue.

On Sept. 8, Wells Fargo was fined $185 million in connection with the fraudulent opening of up to 2 million bogus checking and credit accounts without the permission of its customers.

Tim Sloan, who became chief executive in October, discussed the company’s efforts to rehabilitate its reputation during an earnings call with analysts on Friday morning.

The bank has tons of work to do to get its customers back. However, pay will be tied to the way customers use their accounts.

Wells Fargo & Co. said Friday fourth quarter net income sank 6% as the embattled banking giant continues to dig out from the aftermath of its sales practices that have come under fire.

Teller transactions fell 6 percent from a year earlier, while customers interactions with the bankers in the branches declined 14 percent. Mortgage banking noninterest income was $1.4 billion in Q4, compared with $1.7 billion in Q3 2016. Even after reporting its earnings, which fell short of analysts’ estimates, the company’s stock rose on Wall Street.

On the other hand, the one bank where we did see some problems is Wells Fargo.

PNC posted a net income of $3.9 billion for 2016, down from $4.1 billion in 2015.

Bank of America jumped 2.1 per cent to US$23.41, their highest since the financial crisis. “How? WFC has lots of room to cut costs with 1) the largest branch network in the USA (6000+) and 2) becoming more digital”. Revenues were in line on a year-over-year basis.

Nonperforming assets were at $11.36 billion as of December 31, down from $12 billion on September 30 and $13.98 billion on December 31, 2015. That is compared with the $1.03 in EPS it reported during the same period a year ago.

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Bank of America posted a net income of $4.7 billion, an increase of 43 percent over last year’s net income. The stock’s current distance from 20-Day Simple Moving Average (SMA20) is -1.08% where SMA50 and SMA200 are 3.78% and 12.73% respectively.