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The ‘Jamie premium’ nears $1 trillion as JP Morgan flirts with historic market valuation
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JPMorgan Chase is closing in on a milestone no bank has ever reached.
Key facts
- Dimon, 70, has led JPMorgan since 2006, and investors have long attached a “Jamie premium” of 10% to 15% to the bank’s shares
- Getting to $1 trillion would be the latest payoff from a playbook CEO Jamie Dimon has spent two decades refining: maintain enough financial firepower to withstand crises, keep investing when rivals
- Mayo wrote that this “best-in-class ability to invest for superior growth” could help the bank reach a $2 trillion valuation in the next seven to eight years
- The question of who will succeed Dimon is one of corporate America’s longest-running ones, with recently appointed co-presidents Doug Petno and Troy Rohrbaugh seen as the front-runners after Marianne
Summary
The financial giant was worth roughly $970 billion on Monday morning—a modest stock-market rally away from becoming the first bank in the world with a $1 trillion market cap and a far cry from its $138 billion valuation on December 30, 2005, before he took over. Getting to $1 trillion would be the latest payoff from a playbook CEO Jamie Dimon has spent two decades refining: maintain enough financial firepower to withstand crises, keep investing when rivals pull back, and use periods of industry turmoil to expand. That combination has repeatedly allowed JPMorgan to go on offense when competitors were under pressure. Wells Fargo analyst Mike Mayo wrote in an Aug. 13 note that JPMorgan’s edge is that it can afford to spend heavily on branches, bankers and technology—and then use the growth from those investments to spend even more.