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JPMJPMorgan Chase & Co.

Industry Banks Price 23 Oct 2026

If management hits its targets, one share in 12 months

$332 → $363

What the podcasts say

1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 speaker · 1 show

What investors said about this company on the podcasts we transcribe, newest first. Bullish means the speaker expects the stock to do well, bearish means they expect it to do badly.

  1. Bullish

All 1 statement on the Podcast Heatmap

If management hits its targets

from IR material and Earnings Calls

What one share would be worth today and in 12, 24 and 36 months if the company does exactly what its management has promised, next to what a share costs now. Worked out from the targets management gave in its own results decks and earnings calls.

$332 → $363

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today's market value of the equity over tangible common equity at June 2026, about 2.9×, held on each later year's tangible book. Tangible book compounds at the 17% through-the-cycle return on tangible common equity management targets, less the share of earnings paid out (the middle of the 54–82% net payout the eight decks reported). The total is divided by a share count shrinking at the pace between the January and June 2026 covers. A bank's borrowing is inside its book value, so no debt is subtracted and no cash added. Each figure management gave as a range is taken at its middle.

0$100$200$300$400$500Today (Oct 2026): $332, the market price$332TodayOct 202612 months (Oct 2027): $363 a share if management delivers$36312 monthsOct 202724 months (Oct 2028): $396 a share if management delivers$39624 monthsOct 202836 months (Oct 2029): $432 a share if management delivers$43236 monthsOct 2029
SharesTodayIn 12 monthsOct 2027In 24 monthsOct 2028In 36 monthsOct 2029
Past pace: all sharesshares −3.4% a year, as between the January and June '26 covers: buybacks net of stock pay$332$3632540M sh$3962452M sh$4322369M sh
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How we got there: company value if the plan is delivered, minus debt, divided by all the shares, including the new ones they’d have to sell to pay for it.

  1. The measure. Tangible common equity of $301.3B at 30 June 2026, from the Q2 10-Q's own reconciliation: common equity of $353.6B less goodwill and intangibles plus certain deferred tax liabilities, $113.35 a share. The Q3 '26 deck puts tangible book at $112.64 a share at 30 September but gives no dollar total; the June figure stands until the Q3 10-Q. JPMorgan guides no revenue, earnings or book-value number, so book is the only measure management's one return target can be applied to, and at $332 the stock is 2.9× it.
  2. The return. 17% a year on tangible common equity: the through-the-cycle target the CEO restated on the Q2 '25 call ("If you're just going to earn 17%, you're a bond"). Reported ROTCE was 22% in 2024, 20% in 2025, 26% in the first half of 2026 and 20% in Q3 '26; management calls that above the cycle, so the target, not the current return, is used. Nothing above 17% is counted.
  3. The payout. No payout is guided. The eight decks reported a last-twelve-months net payout (dividends plus net buybacks) of 54% at Q4 '24, 62%, 71%, 73%, 82%, 82%, 73% and 61% at Q3 '26; the range is 54–82% and its middle, 68%, is used, so about a third of earnings stays in book. The $50B buyback authorised in July '25 had $33.4B left at December.
  4. Shares. 2658.2M, the Q2 '26 10-Q cover (30 June 2026); one class, no convertibles, no warrants; unvested RSUs and PSUs are left out, as is the $21.0B of preferred stock, which is not in tangible common equity. The count shrinks at the pace between the 10-K cover (2,697.0M on 31 January 2026) and the Q2 cover, about 3.4% a year, which buybacks at the 2025 rate ($31.6B) would roughly keep up.
  5. Arithmetic. company value ÷ shares. Company value is today's market value of the equity grown at 17% × (1 − 68%) a year from 2027; it is held at today's through the end of 2026, the base year, because nothing management has guided for 2026 changes book value beyond what the year's earnings and payout do. No debt is subtracted: for a bank the borrowing is inside book value, and the kind values the equity. $368 at the end of 2027, $439 at the end of 2029.
  6. What is left out. The 2026 guides (NII ~$106.2B, expense ~$108.6B, Card charge-offs ~3.2%, as the Q3 '26 deck implies them) do not enter: they describe 2026, which the model holds at today's value; nor does the 2027 central case of ~$107B NII ex. Markets, which is not a book-value number. The Apple Card portfolio arriving around December 2027, the ~$40B of excess capital the CEO says will be deployed, and any change in the multiple (three times tangible book is the price of 20% returns, not 17%).

Promises vs. what happened

12 claims · 8 decks

Every target management put in a slide deck, and whether they hit it, missed it, or quietly dropped it.

Guides set to be beaten, and beaten. Net interest income and credit came in better every year; expense is the line that moves up after the January guide, and one capital promise went quiet.

PromiseMade inWhat happened
2025 NII ~$94BQ4 '24$95.9B, after three raisesHeld
2025 NII ex. Markets ~$90BQ4 '24$92.6BHeld
2025 card charge-offs ~3.6%Q4 '243.58% → 3.14%; guide cut to ~3.3%Held
17% ROTCE through the cycleQ2 '25 call20% in '25, 20% in Q3 '26Held
"Not buying back stock today"Q1 '26 call$664mm in Q3, from $8.1B in Q1Held
2025 expense ~$95BQ4 '24raised to ~$95.5B; $95.3BLate
Apple Card RWA ~$110B → ~$30B "near term"Q4 '25never mentioned againDropped
2026 NII ex. Markets ~$95BQ3 '25~$97.2B implied in OctOpen
2026 NII ~$103BQ4 '25~$106.2B implied in OctOpen
2026 expense ~$105BQ4 '25~$108.6B implied in OctOpen
2026 card charge-offs ~3.4%Q4 '25cut to ~3.2%; 2.91% in Q3Open
2027 NII ex. Markets ~$107BQ3 '26openOpen

What they’re pitching

the headline page, deck by deck

The headline from each quarterly results deck over two years, so you can see what they want you to focus on, and when it changes.

Q4
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Q1
'25
Q2
'25
Q3
'25
Q4
'25
Q1
'26
Q2
'26
Q3
'26

ROTCEPage one since Q4 '24

CET1Page one since Q4 '24

PayoutPage one since Q4 '24

GuidesFirst seen Q4 '24

GrowthPage one since Q4 '25

ItemsPage one since Q2 '26

CreditFirst seen Q4 '24

on the headline page further in the deck not in the deck▲ onto page one▼ off page one● first mentionTap a mark for the quote.

Return on tangible common equity on the headline slide

Q4 '24 · headline page

“ROTCE1 21% 1”

Deck 4Q24 and FY24 Financial Results · p. 3 ·

Return on tangible common equity on the headline slide

Q1 '25 · headline page

“ROTCE1 21%”

Deck 1Q25 Financial Results · p. 2 ·

Return on tangible common equity on the headline slide

Q2 '25 · headline page

“ROTCE1 21%”

Deck 2Q25 Financial Results · p. 2 ·

Return on tangible common equity on the headline slide

Q3 '25 · headline page

“ROTCE1 20%”

Deck 3Q25 Financial Results · p. 2 ·

Return on tangible common equity on the headline slide

Q4 '25 · headline page

“ROTCE1 18%”

Deck 4Q25 and FY25 Financial Results · p. 3 ·

Return on tangible common equity on the headline slide

Q1 '26 · headline page

“ROTCE1 23%”

Deck 1Q26 Financial Results · p. 2 ·

Return on tangible common equity on the headline slide

Q2 '26 · headline page

“ROTCE ex. significant items2 23%”

Deck 2Q26 Financial Results · p. 2 ·

Return on tangible common equity on the headline slide

Q3 '26 · headline page

“ROTCE1 20%”

Deck 3Q26 Financial Results · p. 2 ·

Fortress balance sheet, CET1 ratios

Q4 '24 · headline page

“Std. 15.7% | Adv. 15.8%”

Deck 4Q24 and FY24 Financial Results · p. 3 ·

Fortress balance sheet, CET1 ratios

Q1 '25 · headline page

“Std. 15.4% | Adv. 15.5%”

Deck 1Q25 Financial Results · p. 2 ·

Fortress balance sheet, CET1 ratios

Q2 '25 · headline page

“Std. 15.0% | Adv. 15.1%”

Deck 2Q25 Financial Results · p. 2 ·

Fortress balance sheet, CET1 ratios

Q3 '25 · headline page

“Std. 14.8% | Adv. 14.9%”

Deck 3Q25 Financial Results · p. 2 ·

Fortress balance sheet, CET1 ratios

Q4 '25 · headline page

“Std. 14.5% | Adv. 14.1%”

Deck 4Q25 and FY25 Financial Results · p. 3 ·

Fortress balance sheet, CET1 ratios

Q1 '26 · headline page

“Std. 14.3% | Adv. 14.1%”

Deck 1Q26 Financial Results · p. 2 ·

Fortress balance sheet, CET1 ratios

Q2 '26 · headline page

“Std. 14.1% | Adv. 14.2%”

Deck 2Q26 Financial Results · p. 2 ·

Fortress balance sheet, CET1 ratios

Q3 '26 · headline page

“Std. 13.9% | Adv. 14.1%”

Deck 3Q26 Financial Results · p. 2 ·

Capital distributed and the net payout ratio

Q4 '24 · headline page

“ Net payout LTM of 54%6,7”

Deck 4Q24 and FY24 Financial Results · p. 3 ·

Capital distributed and the net payout ratio

Q1 '25 · headline page

“⚫ Net payout LTM of 62%6,7”

Deck 1Q25 Financial Results · p. 2 ·

Capital distributed and the net payout ratio

Q2 '25 · headline page

“⚫ Net payout LTM of 71%7,8”

Deck 2Q25 Financial Results · p. 2 ·

Capital distributed and the net payout ratio

Q3 '25 · headline page

“⚫ Net payout LTM of 73%6,7”

Deck 3Q25 Financial Results · p. 2 ·

Capital distributed and the net payout ratio

Q4 '25 · headline page

“ Net payout LTM of 82%7,8”

Deck 4Q25 and FY25 Financial Results · p. 3 ·

Capital distributed and the net payout ratio

Q1 '26 · headline page

“ Net payout LTM of 82%6,7”

Deck 1Q26 Financial Results · p. 2 ·

Capital distributed and the net payout ratio

Q2 '26 · headline page

“⚫ Net payout LTM of 73%7,8”

Deck 2Q26 Financial Results · p. 2 ·

Capital distributed and the net payout ratio

Q3 '26 · headline page

“⚫ Net payout LTM of 61%7,8”

Deck 3Q26 Financial Results · p. 2 ·

Firmwide outlook, four numbers, "market dependent"

Q4 '24 · further in the deck

“Expect FY2025 net interest income of ~$94B , market dependent”

Deck 4Q24 and FY24 Financial Results · p. 14 ·

Firmwide outlook, four numbers, "market dependent"

Q1 '25 · further in the deck

“Expect FY2025 net interest income of ~$94.5B, market dependent”

Deck 1Q25 Financial Results · p. 10 ·

Firmwide outlook, four numbers, "market dependent"

Q2 '25 · further in the deck

“Expect FY2025 net interest income of ~$95.5B, market dependent”

Deck 2Q25 Financial Results · p. 9 ·

Firmwide outlook, four numbers, "market dependent"

Q3 '25 · further in the deck

“Net interest income $70.8B ~$25B ~$95.8B”

Deck 3Q25 Financial Results · p. 9 ·

Firmwide outlook, four numbers, "market dependent"

Q4 '25 · further in the deck

“Expect FY2026 net interest income of ~$103B, market dependent”

Deck 4Q25 and FY25 Financial Results · p. 15 ·

Firmwide outlook, four numbers, "market dependent"

Q1 '26 · further in the deck

“Expect FY2026 net interest income of ~$103B, market dependent”

Deck 1Q26 Financial Results · p. 10 ·

Firmwide outlook, four numbers, "market dependent"

Q2 '26 · further in the deck

“Expect FY2026 net interest income of ~$105.5B, market dependent”

Deck 2Q26 Financial Results · p. 9 ·

Firmwide outlook, four numbers, "market dependent"

Q3 '26 · further in the deck

“Net interest income $78.2B ~$28B ~$106.2B”

Deck 3Q26 Financial Results · p. 9 ·

Balance sheet growth in loans and deposits

Q4 '24 · headline page

“ Loans: average loans of $1.3T up 2% YoY and 1% QoQ”

Deck 4Q24 and FY24 Financial Results · p. 3 ·

Balance sheet growth in loans and deposits

Q2 '25 · headline page

“⚫ Loans: average loans of $1.4T up 5% YoY and 3% QoQ”

Deck 2Q25 Financial Results · p. 2 ·

Balance sheet growth in loans and deposits

Q4 '25 · headline page

“ Loans: average loans of $1.5T up 9% YoY and 3% QoQ”

Deck 4Q25 and FY25 Financial Results · p. 3 ·

Balance sheet growth in loans and deposits

Q1 '26 · headline page

“ Loans: average loans of $1.5T up 11% YoY and 2% QoQ”

Deck 1Q26 Financial Results · p. 2 ·

Balance sheet growth in loans and deposits

Q2 '26 · headline page

“⚫ Loans: average loans of $1.5T up 10% YoY and 2% QoQ”

Deck 2Q26 Financial Results · p. 2 ·

Balance sheet growth in loans and deposits

Q3 '26 · headline page

“⚫ Loans: average loans of $1.6T up 10% YoY and 2% QoQ”

Deck 3Q26 Financial Results · p. 2 ·

Significant items carved out of the quarter

Q4 '24 · further in the deck

“Note: Totals may not sum due to rounding 1 See note 1 on slide 12 2 FY24 results include the impact of significant items.”

Deck 4Q24 and FY24 Financial Results · p. 5 ·

Significant items carved out of the quarter

Q1 '25 · headline page

“First Republic-related gain $588 $446 $0.168 1”

Deck 1Q25 Financial Results · p. 2 ·

Significant items carved out of the quarter

Q2 '25 · headline page

“Income tax benefit in Corporate - $774 $0.28 1 See note 3 on slide 9 2 Represents the estimated Basel III common equity Tier 1 (“CET1”) capital and ratio and Total Loss -Absorbing”

Deck 2Q25 Financial Results · p. 2 ·

Significant items carved out of the quarter

Q4 '25 · headline page

“Credit reserve established for the forward purchase commitment of the Apple credit card portfolio ($2,200) ($1,665) ($0.60)”

Deck 4Q25 and FY25 Financial Results · p. 3 ·

Significant items carved out of the quarter

Q2 '26 · headline page

“Net gain related to Visa shares in Corporate9 $4,550 $3,443 $1.27”

Deck 2Q26 Financial Results · p. 2 ·

Significant items carved out of the quarter

Q3 '26 · headline page

“Net investment securities losses in Corporate ($658) ($498) ($0.18)”

Deck 3Q26 Financial Results · p. 2 ·

Card credit normalization and reserve builds

Q4 '24 · further in the deck

“ NCOs of $2.1B, up $428mm YoY, driven by Card Services, primarily due to the seasoning of vintages originated in recent years and balance growth”

Deck 4Q24 and FY24 Financial Results · p. 7 ·

Card credit normalization and reserve builds

Q4 '25 · further in the deck

“ Net reserve build of $4.4B included $3.3B in Consumer and $1.1B in Wholesale”

Deck 4Q25 and FY25 Financial Results · p. 5 ·

Card credit normalization and reserve builds

Q2 '26 · further in the deck

“⚫ Net reserve build of $149mm 2”

Deck 2Q26 Financial Results · p. 3 ·

Card credit normalization and reserve builds

Q3 '26 · further in the deck

“Card Services net charge-off rate 2.91% 3.34% 3.15%”

Deck 3Q26 Financial Results · p. 5 ·

What they keep talking about · 9

The themes that show up deck after deck, and the ones that disappear.

ROTCE
The first number on every highlights slide: 21%, 21%, 21%, 20%, 18%, 23%, 29%, 20%. From Q2 '25 a second figure "excluding significant items" sits beside it; in Q2 '26 the two are six points apart, in Q3 '26 one.
CET1
Standardized and Advanced ratios on the headline every quarter, under the words "Fortress balance sheet": 15.7% → 13.9% as RWA grew from $1.8T to $2.2T. Advanced RWA joined the table in Q4 '25, when the Apple Card commitment added ~$110B to it.
Payout
Dividend, net buybacks and the LTM net payout on the headline slide: 54%, 62%, 71%, 73%, 82%, 82%, 73%, 61%. The dividend went $1.25 → $1.40 (Q1 '25) → $1.50 (Q3 '25) → $1.65 (Q3 '26); buybacks peaked at $8.1B in Q1 '26 and fell to $664mm in Q3.
Guides
The last slide, always: NII, NII ex. Markets, adjusted expense and the Card charge-off rate for the calendar year, each "market dependent". The Q3 deck adds next year's "central case (preliminary analysis)"; the Q4 deck adds the rate assumptions and an expense-driver chart. No revenue, EPS or return guide in any deck.
Growth
Average loans up 2% a year in Q4 '24, up 10–11% by 2026, mostly wholesale and Card revolve; deposits from $2.4T to $2.7T. The growth is what the NII guides rest on as rates fall.
Items
A "Significant items" box on the highlights slide from Q1 '25: the First Republic gain, a $774mm tax benefit, the $2.2B Apple Card reserve, the $4.6B Visa gain and $1.0B of equity marks in Q2 '26, and $658mm of securities losses in Q3 '26.
Credit
"Seasoning of vintages" in Q4 '24, then reserve builds for balance growth and the Apple Card; the Card charge-off rate peaked at 3.58% in Q1 '25, ran 3.14–3.47% after and fell to 2.91% in Q3 '26.
New
Q2 '25: ROTCE excluding significant items. Q3 '25: effective and managed tax rates added to the results table. Q4 '25: Advanced RWA in the capital table. Q3 '26: a 2027 central case of ~$107B NII ex. Markets.
Quiet
The Apple Card RWA step-down, "expected in the near term" in Jan '26, is in none of the three later decks. Middle Market Banking was renamed Commercial & Specialized Industries in Q2 '25.
Every quarterly report we’ve saved · 9

The press releases and shareholder letters behind this page.

Archived as text; the links open the copies filed on EDGAR or the investor-relations site.

What analysts asked them

6 calls · Q3 24 – Q2 26

The last eight earnings calls: what analysts kept asking about, which questions got dodged, and how much the CEO did the talking.

Share of questions by topic, call by call. A topic that suddenly dominates is usually the problem. The last row is how much of the answering the CEO did, rather than the CFO or others.

Share of questions about…Q3 24Q1 25Q2 25Q3 25Q4 25Q2 26
Pricing & margins···50%··
Capital & financing50%··50%··
Other50%100%100%50%100%100%
Questions213214

How these calls run. On the Q3 25 call, investors send questions in advance and investor relations reads them out, sometimes rephrased, and picks who answers. No analyst is heard live and nobody gets a follow-up, so this table shows the questions the company chose to read.

Who’s in charge, who’s selling

read from the filings · 22 Oct 2026

Shareholder votes against the board and pay, plus which executives have been selling their own shares.

  1. Tier 2 · live

    Succession dated, and priced at $100M with a 12% floor

    25 Jun '26: Petno and Rohrbaugh named co-presidents and sole heads of the CIB and CCB; Lake retired. Retention RSUs of $30M each to them and $20M each to Erdoes and Piepszak, cliff-vesting in three years if average ROTCE for 2026–28 reaches 12%, against a 17% target and 20% delivered. Pinto leaves at end-'26; director Combs resigned in Dec '25 with no reason given.

  2. Tier 2 · stable

    Chairman and CEO for twenty years; lead director beside him for 22

    Dimon CEO since Dec '05, chairman since Dec '06. The independent-chair proposal drew 36.9% (2025) and 35.4% (2026) of votes for plus against. Against Burke, lead director since '21 and a director since '04: 141.2M → 146.8M (7.6%), the most on the board. Since Jul '26 the by-laws say the non-management directors appoint the lead director.

  3. Tier 2 · stable

    $126M sold, $0 bought, in twelve months

    43 Form 4 sales by all eleven executive officers, Nov '25–Sep '26, every one under a 10b5-1 plan: Dimon $61.4M (200,000 shares), Rohrbaugh $15.4M four months before his promotion, Erdoes $9.3M, Piepszak $7.0M, Lake $6.3M before she retired. No director sold; no one bought.

  4. Tier 3 · stable

    Payout to 82% and CET1 down 1.6 points, at a price the CEO would not pay

    Standardized CET1 15.7% (Q4 '24) → 14.1% (Q2 '26); net payout LTM 54% → 82% → 73%. $50B buyback authorised Jul '25, $33.4B left. Q1 '26 call: "Our preferred way of using capital is not buying back stock today." Q2 '26: less stock as the price goes up; ~$40B of excess capital to be deployed, how not said.

  5. Tier 3 · stable

    Clean audit, disclosed ties, pay approved by nine in ten

    PwC: unqualified opinion on internal control at Dec '25, no disagreements, fees $135M (+13%). CEO pay $43M for 2025 (+10%), say-on-pay 92.4%. Related ties all ordinary course and disclosed: credit to Ford (Davis) and ICONIQ (Gorsky), aircraft from General Dynamics (Novakovic), a Burke son-in-law on staff under $120K. One late Form 4 (Erdoes, non-discretionary).

Accounting rule changes 1 in 1 quarters

  1. Q4 '25Advanced RWA counts the Apple Card forward purchase commitment (~$110B), expected to fall to ~$30B

Where shareholders voted no

At each annual meeting shareholders vote on who sits on the board, what the executives are paid and whether the company may create more shares. These are the votes that drew the most "no"s at the last two meetings: the shares voted against (or withheld) each year, then what share of all votes cast that was. Under each one, what the vote was about and what a no means.

20252026Share 2026
Dimon (chairman & CEO)A board seat. Shareholders vote to keep this person on the board, the group that hires, pays and can fire the CEO. A no, or a withheld vote, says they want this director out, often because of the committee they sit on or a decision they signed off.124.4M99.0M5.2%
Burke (lead director)A board seat.141.2M146.8M7.6%
Rometty (nominating chair)A board seat.25.9M83.7M4.4%
Say on payExecutive pay. Shareholders say whether they accept what the top executives were paid. The vote is advisory: the board can ignore it, but a large no is a public rebuke and boards usually change the pay plan after one.163.9M139.4M7.3%
Independent chair (for)Split the chair and CEO jobs. A proposal that the board be chaired by an independent director, not the CEO, so the person who runs the company does not also run the board that supervises them. Here the number is the votes for it.737.5M677.1M35.4%

Insiders who sold the most stock

Reported sales by executives and directors, biggest first.

Form 4s, Nov '25–Sep '26SoldNote
Dimon, chairman & CEO$61.4M200,000 shares, Feb and Apr '26, under a plan; 6.27M held
Rohrbaugh, now co-president$15.4M50,000 shares on 19 Feb '26, four months before the promotion
Erdoes, AWM chief$9.3Mfour sales; 632,399 held after
Piepszak, COO$7.0Mthree sales, Jan–May '26
Lake, CCB chief (retired)$6.3Mfour sales, the last 15 May; retired 25 Jun