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Share Name | Share Symbol | Market | Type |
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Citigroup Inc | NYSE:C | NYSE | Common Stock |
Price Change | % Change | Share Price | High Price | Low Price | Open Price | Shares Traded | Last Trade | |
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-0.035 | -0.06% | 61.505 | 62.15 | 61.41 | 61.53 | 7,801,589 | 20:40:05 |
By David Benoit
Citigroup Inc. on Tuesday said fourth-quarter profit rose 15% and beat expectations on a surge in its investment banking operations.
The New York bank posted profit of $4.98 billion, or $2.15 per share. That included a per-share $0.25 gain thanks to a tax boost. Analysts had expected $1.81 per share, not including the tax gain, according to FactSet. A year earlier, Citigroup had earned $4.31 billion, or $1.64 per share.
Revenue rose 7% to $18.38 billion from $17.12 billion a year earlier. Analysts had expected $17.9 billion.
In the consumer bank, revenue rose 5% to $8.46 billion and profit rose 12% to $1.58 billion. The corporate bank's revenue and profit both rose 10%, to $9.38 billion and $2.88 billion, respectively, bouncing back from a weak period a year ago.
The gains helped propel Citi above its promised profitability targets, which analysts had widely expected it to miss.
The bank's return on tangible common equity, which measures the profitability of its assets, was 12.1% for the full year.
Citigroup had targeted 12% for all of 2019 and the bank looked on pace for that, "or darn close," Chief Financial Officer Mark Mason told skeptical analysts in September.
Analysts will likely still seek an update on the 2020 promise to hit 13.5%, but beating the 2019 target will provide a dose of credibility to Chief Executive Michael Corbat's plans.
Mr. Corbat has said the bank is making important progress on profits and that he wouldn't sacrifice investments in the business to hit a few targets. He and Mr. Mason have warned the 2020 economy isn't what they expected when they set the target.
Citigroup's stock rose more than 50% in 2019, outpacing rivals in the KBW Nasdaq Bank Index and the broader market. Still, it trades at lower valuations than peers, which analysts have blamed on lower returns than the industry.
Shares rose in premarket trading Tuesday.
Write to David Benoit at david.benoit@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
January 14, 2020 08:33 ET (13:33 GMT)
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