Sunday, 20 January 2013

At 3s and 6s with GS and JP

Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan both performed strongly in 2012 but how did the two businesses compare both at the macro level and at the individual business unit level?

GS: Net Income = $2.89bn (just under 3 bn)
JP: Net Income = $5.7bn (just under 6 bn)
GS: Net Revenues = $9.24bn
JP: Net Revenues = $24.4bn

GS seems to have been performing decently in rates and credit, but weaker in commodities and currencies in 2012.

Morgan Stanley did pretty badly in Q4. Net revenues were $7bn but income from continuing operations was only $573m. The Institutional Securities Division lost $1.7bn overall -through compensation expense of $6.7bn (lowered from last year) and non-compensation expenses of $5.6bn (up from last year, due to litigation expense, relating to some confusion over loans made to New Century Financial).

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