The money-center bank took a pretax preprovision profit of $9.1 billion, up 9% from the prior quarter. Its noninterest expense was $12.1 billion, down $285 million from the prior quarter. Some ratios were as follows:
- 57.1% efficiency ratio
- Return on average assets were 1.45%, up 4 basis points from the prior quarter
- Return on equity was 13.38%, up 52 basis points from the prior quarter
- Total average core checking and savings deposits were up $16.9 billion from the prior quarter
- Total loans rose by $7.34 billion from the prior quarter to $782.6 billion
- Tier 1 common equity under Basel I increased $4.1 billion to $105.8 billion
- Tier 1 common equity ratio of 10.06% under Basel I
- Estimated Tier 1 common equity ratio of 8.02% under current Basel III capital proposals
The bank also repurchased approximately 17 million shares of common stock in third quarter and an additional estimated 9 million shares through a forward repurchase transaction expected to settle in fourth quarter 2012. Wells Fargo said that its net charge-offs of $2.4 billion were 1.21% annualized of its average loans, but this includes $567 million of net charge-offs from the implementation of newly issued regulatory guidance.
Wells Fargo reported a book value per common share of $27.10, up 12% from September 2011’s book value of $24.13 per common share. Wells Fargo shares are down 2.8% at $34.21 against a 52-week range of $23.19 to $36.60.
JON C. OGG
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