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⚠️ #BankingCrisis update ⚠️
The banks reporting season has begun and, of course, $JPM $C $WFC all "beat" expectations, sending their #stocks higher in pre-market. However, when people started moving from reading the (cheerful) press releases to the (boring and lengthy) financial statements, bank #stocks quickly pared their gains and $BKX closed down 2.35% on Friday. 😅
What the hell did investors find in the financials that caused such a change of heart?🤔
Here are the interesting things I found so far:
1. $JPM "fair value" losses in their HTM Debt Securities book increased to 33bn$, and No here $FRC has nothing to do with it.
2. $JPM lost ~900m$ in their securities investments. What's wrong with this? These are 🥜 for Jamie! What's wrong is that this is the fourth quarter in a row $JPM books a ~900m$ loss despite the ups and downs in the market. That's a bit too regular, isn't it? However, if we compare this figure with the decrease in the HTM balance QoQ, $JPM has been selling HTM securities at ~30%, ~7.5%, ~20% discounts in Q2-23, Q1-23, and Q4-22. This is starting to be more aligned with the swings in the market, isn't it?
3. Now look at point 1 and 2 together. Do you notice anything strange? $JPM estimates a "fair value" of their HTM securities only 8% below book value, but then the price they have been selling their HTM asset is at a 30% discount! If we apply an MTM to HTM assets using what the bank itself is getting from the market, $JPM is carrying a 123bn$ MTM loss in their HTM books. 🥶
4. While at least $JPM still shares important data (wisely hidden in the various footnotes 😉), $C and $WFC don't bother to do so. However, from what they cannot avoid disclosing, we can easily see how both banks really pushed the limits in terms of accounting acrobatics this time around. For example, yesterday I flagged $WFC reported a 4m$ GAIN for Q2-23 related to their Debt Securities assets. $C did even "better," booking a 49m$ GAIN! 🙄
Both banks hold ~500bn$ of Debt Securities between AFS and HTM, and they are doing far better than Jamie in managing them… yes, if you believe in Santa and unicorns… 🤣
5. If we apply the same 30% MTM discounted value Jamie is getting to $C and $WFC, both banks might be hiding ~150bn$ in MTM losses each in their Debt Securities books. 🤷🏻♂️
6. What about Credit Losses? While $JPM and $WFC increased their provisions by 28% and 41% vs Q1, $C provisions decreased 8%… Cmon Jane! 🤣 However, none of these 3 banks still made any meaningful provision against their CRE books. Among them, I find $WFC "assessment" is the funniest one: "the vast majority of the [CIB] portfolio is institutional quality and with high-calibre sponsors." Ehmm… so what? Are those CRE loans guaranteed? No. Is "institutional quality" reassuring when filings for chapter 11 are at GFC levels? So basically $WFC is telling us that ~103bn$ of CRE loans they hold are "good" because they say so. 😅🫣
7. Last but not least, Deposits. $JPM (including $FRC) +21bn vs -11bn$ for $C and -9bn$ for $WFC. According to FED non-adjusted data, Large US domestic banks as a whole lost 152bn$ in deposits during Q2. Then if the net for the first 3 banks that reported is +2bn$, it means the remaining out there lost 154bn$ in deposits right? 🤷🏻♂️ Someone might have bleeding big time then..
Considering all that has been said so far, no wonder investors started dumping bank #stocks yesterday.
$BKX is down ~19% YTD vs $QQQ +43%. This is the equivalent of an F1 car leading a race without fuel. It's simply not possible for a car to keep racing without fuel unless you are playing a video game. Believing that you can do it in reality is equivalent to believing in Santa and unicorns
If this is the beginning of the banks reporting season, I foresee plenty of games of smoke and mirrors along with nasty surprises ahead (and not only for bank stocks, sorry)⚠️
Links to financials: citigroup.com/rcs/citigpa/st…jpmorganchase.com/content/dam/jp…www08.wellsfargomedia.com/assets/pdf/abo…
⚠️ #BankingCrisis Update ⚠️
Next Friday $JPM, $C, and $WFC are going to kick off bank earnings season; the stage is set for a horror show! 😨👻
1 - Let’s start with ballooning MTM losses.
Considering where Treasuries traded on the 30th of June (thank God I didn’t use last
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