Shares of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. rose 0.8% in premarket trading, after the banking giant reported first-quarter profit and revenue that missed expectations, hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic, but beat on net interest income and saw strong growth in equity and fixed income markets revenue.
Net income fell to $2.87 billion, or 78 cents a share, from $9.18 billion, or $2.65 a share, in the year-ago period, as reserve builds as a result of COVID-19 reduced earnings by $1.66 a share.
The FactSet consensus was for earnings per share of $2.18. Total revenue fell to $29.07 billion from $29.85 billion, below the FactSet consensus of $29.55 billion, while net interest income (NII) was flat at $14.5 billion to beat expectations of $14.0 billion.
Consumer and community banking revenue fell 2.4% to $13.17 billion, below the FactSet consensus of $13.75 billion and corporate and investment bank revenue declined 0.9% to $9.95 billion, missing expectations of $10.29 billion.
Within C&I, equity markets revenue jumped 28% to $2.2 billion and fixed income revenue grew 34% to $5.0 billion. "the first quarter delivered some unprecedented challenges and required us to focus on what we as a bank could do - outside of our ordinary course of business - to remain strong, resilient and well-positioned to support all of our stakeholders," said Chief Executive Jaime Dimon.
For 2020, the bank cut its NII outlook to about $55.5 billion from more than $57 billion, but that was still above the FactSet consensus of $55.3 billion.
The stock has lost 29.3% over the past three months, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average has declined 19.2%.
This article originally appeared on MarketWatch.
