Bank of America Technische Analyse - Bank of America Handel: 2024-04-17

Bank of America beat first quarter revenue and earnings estimates yesterday but the stock ended 3.5% lower for the day. The bank reported revenue of $25.82 billion, exceeding the Wall Street consensus estimate of $25.46 billion. However the revenue was down 2% year over year as higher investment banking and trading revenues were unable to offset lower net interest income. Bank of America reported a 18% drop in first-quarter profit as the bank reported higher expenses and charge-offs of bad loans that exceeded expectations. Charge-offs for bad loans totaled $1.5 billion, up 26% from the final three months of 2023 and significantly above the $1.26 billion analysts had expected. The company attributed the higher-than-expected charge-off number to an increase in credit card issues, but stated that the number is flattening out. The bank stated that its unrealized losses on a $587 billion portfolio of bonds that are classified as held to maturity for accounting purposes widened by $11 billion to $109 billion on March 31 from $98 billion at year-end 2023. Bank of America has by far the largest bond losses in the banking industry.