Price Target Analysis Wells Fargo & Company

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13 May, 2017

The Freestone Capital Holdings Llc holds 937,520 shares with $21.95 million value, up from 914,872 last quarter.

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A trend analysis is a method of analysis that allows traders to predict what will happen with a stock in the future. It has outperformed by 10.64% the S&P500. Wells Fargo & Co has a dividend payout ratio of 36.2% indicating that its dividend is sufficiently covered by earnings. Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) now trades with a market capitalization of $274.07 Billion. Laurel Grove Capital LLC's holdings in Wells Fargo & Co were worth $3,695,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period. Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC)'s price sits -1.27% off from its 50-day moving average of $54.54 and 6.32% far from the stock's 200-day moving average which is $54.56. Bessemer Grp reported 0.57% of its portfolio in Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC). It has outperformed by 8.58% the S&P500. The ABR rank is displayed in the range of 1 to 5 where 1 represents a Strong Buy and 5 a Strong Sell.

Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC) have shown a high EPS growth of 7.20% in the last 5 years and has earnings growth of 0.80% yoy.

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The latest cuts come after years of questions from analysts and investors about why Wells Fargo was not doing more to reduce costs, which have been high compared to USA banking rivals. UBS maintained the shares of WFC in report on Thursday, September 15 with "Sell" rating.

Chief Executive Officer Tim Sloan is trying to counter the damage to Wells Fargo's business after authorities found previous year that the bank's employees may have opened about 2 million unauthorized accounts to hit sales goals. The rating was upgraded by JP Morgan to "Overweight" on Friday, October 9. Sandler O'Neill downgraded the shares of WFC in report on Monday, April 11 to "Hold" rating. Its down 0.30, from 0.97 in 2016Q3.

Several other large investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company.

Shares of Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC) traded down 2.01% on Friday, hitting $52.66. Asset Management One stated it has 8.50M shares or 1.16% of all its holdings.

The financial service provider and prominent bank Wells Fargo is looking to multiply their cost cutting as backlashes from the sales scandal continues to weigh down the bank. Its shares are down almost 1%, while shares of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. are up around 1%. The stock was acquired at an average cost of $51.65 per share, for a total transaction of $3,013,364.30. Amarillo National Bank, a Texas-based fund reported 3,450 shares. Hikari holds 1.78 million shares.

In a statement, Wells Fargo spokesman Ancel Martinez said the practices alleged by former employees never would have been countenanced by the bank. The original version of this article can be viewed at https://www.themarketsdaily.com/2017/05/12/laurel-grove-capital-llc-decreases-stake-in-wells-fargo-co-wfc.html. Barclays PLC reaffirmed a "buy" rating and set a $65.00 price objective on shares of Wells Fargo & Co in a report on Tuesday, January 10th.

Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) has an Average Brokerage Recommendation (ABR) of 2.6, according to data compiled by Zacks Investment Research. Therefore 100% are positive. Wells Fargo & Company has $67 highest and $44 lowest target. $26's average target is 5.99% above currents $24.53 stock price.

A total of 29 brokers have issued a research note on the company.

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