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JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM)

1Q26 net income $16.5B; EPS $5.94; managed revenue $50.5B, +10% YoY

The upside came from a synchronized surge in Markets, investment banking, Payments and asset-management fees, while core NII remained supportive but not meaningfully better. That mix shift matters because it makes the earnings base less hostage to rate cuts, but it also pushes more value into businesses that consume scarce capital and are most exposed to regulatory friction.

FY2026 / Q1 2026Released 2026-04-1422 nodes5 levels

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Root Thesis

The upside came from a synchronized surge in Markets, investment banking, Payments and asset-management fees, while core NII remained supportive but not meaningfully better.

Next earnings 2026-07-14

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InvestmentLevel 1Path reader

The quarter says JPM can out-earn a flatter-rate world because fee-heavy client activity is now broad enough to offset stalled core NII, but the rerating case still depends on capital-rule relief and a benign credit cycle.

1Q26 net income $16.5B; EPS $5.94; managed revenue $50.5B, +10% YoY

Source

S1 p1-2; S2 p2-4; S3 p2-4, p8-9; S4 p1, p5, p15-19

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BusinessLevel 2Path reader

The upside is now coming from fee-heavy client activity, not another leg of rate-driven NII.

CIB net income $9.0B, +30% YoY; CIB revenue $23.4B, +19% YoY

JPM did not need a higher full-year core NII outlook to print a $50 billion revenue quarter. The real change is that Markets, IB and Payments all contributed at once, which makes the quarter more durable than a one-desk trading spike but also shifts the scorecard toward client activity and conversion quality.

Source

S2 p2, p6; S3 p16-19; S4 p1, p5, p18-19

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Commercial and investment banking is doing most of the earnings work because client intensity monetized across Markets, IB and Payments at the same time.

CIB revenue $23.4B vs $19.5B in 2Q25

The segment did not rely on one business line: Payments kept compounding, investment banking rebounded and Markets printed a record quarter. When these engines move together, JPM's earnings power starts to look less cyclical than the market often assumes for a money-center bank.

Recent Quarters

Q2'25

Q3'25

Q4'25

Q1'26

Source

S2 p6; S3 p16

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MarketLevel 4Path reader

Markets is no longer a narrow rates story; commodities, credit, currencies and equities all pulled the quarter higher.

Markets revenue $11.6B, +20% YoY

Fixed income strength came from commodities, credit and currencies and emerging markets, while equities also benefited from heavier client activity. That mix matters because it points to franchise breadth and client urgency rather than a single transient trading factor.

Recent Quarters

Q2'25

Q3'25

Q4'25

Q1'26

Source

S1 p1-2; S2 p6; S3 p16

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The quarter says JPM can out-earn a flatter-rate world because fee-heavy client activity is now broad enough to offset stalled core NII, but the rerating case still depends on capital-rule relief and a benign credit cycle.

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Branch 1

The upside is now coming from fee-heavy client activity, not another leg of rate-driven NII.

CIB net income $9.0B, +30% YoY; CIB revenue $23.4B, +19% YoY

JPM did not need a higher full-year core NII outlook to print a $50 billion revenue quarter. The real change…

Branch 2

Consumer is still sturdy enough to fund the base case, but it is not delivering a fresh earnings re-acceleration on its own.

CCB net income $5.0B, +12% YoY; revenue $19.6B, +7% YoY

Retail trends were good enough to protect the base case, especially in cards, spending and account acquisitio…

Branch 3

Capital is abundant, but regulation is still the main brake on how much of JPM's client franchise can convert into incremental balance-sheet earnings.

Standardized CET1 14.3%; CET1 capital $291B; net repurchases $8.1B

JPM has ample capital and liquidity, but the quarter also showed how quickly client activity can lift risk-we…

Branch 4

AWM keeps pushing JPM toward a sturdier fee multiple, but that rerating only holds if flows and fee capture outlast market beta.

AWM revenue $6.4B, +11% YoY; AUM $4.8T, +16% YoY

Asset and wealth management is giving JPM more recurring, fee-based earnings support at the same time that CI…

Business

The upside is now coming from fee-heavy client activity, not another leg of rate-driven NII.

CIB net income $9.0B, +30% YoY; CIB revenue $23.4B, +19% YoY

Commercial and investment banking is doing most of the earnings work because client intensity monetized across Markets, IB and Payments at the same time.

CIB revenue $23.4B vs $19.5B in 2Q25

The segment did not rely on one business line: Payments kept compounding, investment banking rebounded and Markets printed a record quarter…

Core NII is still a support beam, but it is not the upside unlock because balance-sheet growth is mostly offsetting lower rates.

NII ex-Markets $23.3B, +3% YoY; FY26 guide held at $95B

Management kept the full-year NII ex-Markets outlook unchanged even though JPM remains asset-sensitive, because the removal of expected bac…

Business

Consumer is still sturdy enough to fund the base case, but it is not delivering a fresh earnings re-acceleration on its own.

CCB net income $5.0B, +12% YoY; revenue $19.6B, +7% YoY

Retail trends were good enough to protect the base case, especially in cards, spending and account acquisition, but the segment still looks like a steady franchise rather than a new source of upside surprise. That distinction matters because it keeps JPM's earnings mix tilted toward fee businesses for marginal upside.

Card balances and spend are still carrying the retail revenue line, while credit normalization looks manageable rather than over.

Card sales volume $337.6B; net charge-off rate 3.47%

Card Services continues to benefit from higher revolving balances and solid spend, but losses remain normalized at a high level rather than…

Deposit growth is still being won through share gains and new accounts, not through a clean re-acceleration in balances per account.

More than 450K net new checking accounts; consumer deposit growth still expected low- to mid-single digits

Management said the account-acquisition engine remains strong, but also said it is too early to declare a full return of robust consumer de…

Capital Allocation

Capital is abundant, but regulation is still the main brake on how much of JPM's client franchise can convert into incremental balance-sheet earnings.

Standardized CET1 14.3%; CET1 capital $291B; net repurchases $8.1B

JPM has ample capital and liquidity, but the quarter also showed how quickly client activity can lift risk-weighted assets and consume ratio headroom. The investment debate is no longer whether the bank has capital; it is whether the final rules let JPM deploy that capital into the highest-return client businesses without punitive surcharges.

The quarter used capital because higher client activity pushed up RWA, especially in Markets and credit-risk-ex-lending buckets.

Standardized RWA $2.04T, up about $60B QoQ

Barnum said the RWA increase reflected higher client activity, seasonal effects and higher energy prices. That is important because it show…

Management is arguing the GSIB redesign still over-penalizes low-risk client intermediation, which means the best franchise may remain capital-capped.

JPM preliminary estimate implies required CET1 would rise about 4% under the proposals

The presentation and call both argued that JPM's outcome is worse than the aggregate large-bank estimate and that the surcharge falls harde…

That is why buybacks are not the core bull thesis even with excess capital; management would rather compound through client build-out than shrink the share count at fair value.

Management cited roughly $40B of excess capital; LTM net payout 82%

Dimon said the preferred use of capital is serving clients through bankers, Payments, global banking and commercial expansion, not simply b…

Portfolio

AWM keeps pushing JPM toward a sturdier fee multiple, but that rerating only holds if flows and fee capture outlast market beta.

AWM revenue $6.4B, +11% YoY; AUM $4.8T, +16% YoY

Asset and wealth management is giving JPM more recurring, fee-based earnings support at the same time that CIB is printing better results. That mix helps the multiple anchor, but investors still need proof that fee growth is coming from real flows and relationship deepening rather than only from elevated market levels.

Fee growth was real and broad-based, which helps prove the quarter was not only a trading event.

Asset management fees $4.1B, +15% YoY

Asset-management fees, client assets and private-banking scale all moved higher, reinforcing the idea that JPM's quarter reflected broader…

The next scorecard is net flows and fee resilience once market performance stops helping, because 1Q26 already absorbed a negative market-performance swing.

Client net asset flows +$111B; market/performance/other -$126B

Ending client assets still held near quarter-end peaks despite a negative market/performance contribution, which is encouraging. But the va…

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The quarter says JPM can out-earn a flatter-rate world because fee-heavy client activity is now broad enough to offset stalled core NII, but the rerating case still depends on capital-rule relief and a benign credit cycle.

The upside is now coming from fee-heavy client activity, not another leg of rate-driven NII.

Commercial and investment banking is doing most of the earnings work because client intensity monetized across Markets, IB and Payments at the same time.

Markets is no longer a narrow rates story; commodities, credit, currencies and equities all pulled the quarter higher.

The quarter says JPM can out-earn a flatter-rate world because fee-heavy client activity is now broad enough to offset stalled core NII, but the rerating case still depends on capital-rule relief and a benign credit cycle.

The upside is now coming from fee-heavy client activity, not another leg of rate-driven NII.

Consumer is still sturdy enough to fund the base case, but it is not delivering a fresh earnings re-acceleration on its own.

Capital is abundant, but regulation is still the main brake on how much of JPM's client franchise can convert into incremental balance-sheet earnings.

AWM keeps pushing JPM toward a sturdier fee multiple, but that rerating only holds if flows and fee capture outlast market beta.