JPMorgan is the first big US bank to report third-quarter results. Photo: Bloomberg
Bengaluru: JPMorgan Chase & Co, the biggest US bank by assets, reported a 7.6% drop in quarterly profit after recording a tax expense, compared with a rare tax benefit a year earlier.
The bank’s net income fell to $6.29 billion in the third quarter ended 30 September from $6.80 billion in the same quarter of 2015. Earnings per share fell to $1.58 from $1.68.
The year-earlier net profit was boosted by a tax benefit of $2.2 billion.
On a pre-tax basis, profit rose 32.8% to $8.94 billion, helped by a drop in non-interest expenses and a slight increase in revenue following the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hike last December, the first since the financial crisis.
Analysts on average had expected earnings of $1.39 per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. It was not immediately clear if the reported figures were comparable.
JPMorgan is the first big US bank to report third-quarter results. Wells Fargo & Co and Citigroup Inc, the third and fourth-biggest US banks by assets, are scheduled to report later on Friday. Bank of America Corp, the second biggest, will report on Monday. Reuters
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