1. JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 101
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) remains one of the best financial services stocks to buy now as its Q3 results showed strong earnings capacity. In Q3, the company reported credit costs net benefit of $1.5 billion, beating the consensus of $17.9 million.
Recently, both Wells Fargo and Barclays raised their price targets on JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) to $210 and $193, respectively. Since the start of 2021, the stock delivered a 27.8% return to shareholders, while it gained 31.8% in the past year, as of the close of December 2.
The number of hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey having stakes in JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) decreased to 101 in Q3, from 108 in the previous quarter. However, the total value of the stakes stood at $5.6 billion, up from $4.9 billion in Q2 2021. Fisher Asset Management was the largest shareholder of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) in Q3, owning shares worth $1.1 billion.
Vltava Fund mentioned JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) in its Q3 2021 investor letter. Here is what the firm has to say:
“While all the previous names could be categorised as founder, continuing, or key shareholders, these last two names fall into the category of hired professional managers. This is actually the most numerous category among the bosses of large companies, but even among them there exist a number of individuals with exceptional long-term track records. In our view, these include also Jamie Dimon and Herman Gref.
We consider JP Morgan to be the strongest, largest, and most profitable bank in the world. It has not always been so, and the fact that it is what it is today can be attributed especially to its CEO Jamie Dimon. Dimon has spent his entire career in banking. He came to JP Morgan in a roundabout way in 2004 after the bank bought Bank One, of which he was CEO at the time. Since early 2006, Dimon has been CEO of the entire JP Morgan.
The quality and strength of JP Morgan under his leadership became fully apparent for the first time in 2008. Not only did JP Morgan help to stabilise the market by taking over the failing Bear Stearns in the spring of that year, but it was the only major US bank that did not require government assistance throughout the Great Financial Crisis and that was highly profitable even in the difficult year of 2008. Today, JP Morgan is even bigger, even more profitable, and even stronger than ever before. Many investors view banks with disdain, but a good bank with good management can be a very good long-term investment. From the time of its merger with Bank One in 2004 through the end of 2020, JP Morgan’s stock has outperformed even the S&P 500 index. The bank has earned a total net profit of USD 330 billion during this period, of which USD 232 billion has been paid out to shareholders in dividends and in share buybacks. I can recommend two books about Jamie Dimon: The House of Dimon and Last Man Standing.”
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