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What has to happen in Consumer Banking

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Horizon
Consolidated fair value $68.34 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $15.48B 36% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution $79.02B EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

Alastair Borthwick raised FY2026 NII growth to the upper end of the 6-8% range on the 14 July 2026 call, and full-year operating leverage to 300-400bps. This case pays for that on the lines where the deposit and lending balances actually sit - Consumer Banking and Global Banking take the growth and the operating leverage, GWIM takes half of it, Global Markets takes none. It does NOT assume Global Markets repeats +34%, and it does NOT treat the guided range as a floor: management explicitly conditioned it on 'the current forward curve, which has one 25 basis point rate hike in September', which had not occurred when this model was written. Result: $68.34 a share, 2.33x tangible book.

Consumer Banking

Basis quarter$11.34B
Final quarter$15.48B
Implied CAGR+6%
Final revenue mix36%

Deposits, cards, small business and the financial-centre network. $11,336M of FTE revenue in the basis quarter on $957.0B of average deposits and $321.1B of average loans. Neither balances nor card spend are published as a complete priced volume series, so the line is projected as sequential growth on the reported revenue.

Last four quarters
2025 Q3 $11.17B Reported
2025 Q4 $11.20B Reported
2026 Q1 $11.05B Reported
2026 Q2 $11.34B Reported
DepositsConsumer lendingCredit cardSmall business
Sequential growth +1.2%/qtr decaying toward +1.0% 1.2% QoQ, the trailing four-quarter average sequential. Not the +4.8% year-over-year headline.
Consumer Banking

Latest: $15.48B (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2022Q4 $10.78B
2023Q1 $10.71B
2023Q2 $10.52B
2023Q3 $10.47B
2023Q4 $10.33B
2024Q1 $10.17B
2024Q2 $10.21B
2024Q3 $10.42B
2024Q4 $10.65B
2025Q1 $10.49B
2025Q2 $10.81B
2025Q3 $11.17B
2025Q4 $11.20B
2026Q1 $11.05B
2026Q2 $11.34B
2026Q3E $11.53B
2026Q4E $11.72B
2027Q1E $11.92B
2027Q2E $12.11B
2027Q3E $12.31B
2027Q4E $12.50B
2028Q1E $12.70B
2028Q2E $12.90B
2028Q3E $13.10B
2028Q4E $13.30B
2029Q1E $13.51B
2029Q2E $13.72B
2029Q3E $13.93B
2029Q4E $14.14B
2030Q1E $14.35B
2030Q2E $14.57B
2030Q3E $14.79B
2030Q4E $15.02B
2031Q1E $15.25B
2031Q2E $15.48B

Assumptions & reasoning

  • A growth driver rather than deposits-as-capacity. Average deposits of $957.0B and average loans of $321.1B are disclosed, but BAC publishes no priced volume series the engine could charge a yield on.
  • The 38.6% margin is PRE-TAX income, $4,375M, already net of the $1,160M provision for credit losses and of segment noninterest expense. It is not EBITDA and it is not pre-provision profit.
  • Consumer carries roughly 85% of the group's credit cost, so this is the line where a consumer credit cycle shows up. Provision has ranged $1,009M to $1,405M over the fifteen quarters, a 39% spread on a line that is 10% of segment revenue.
  • Terminal 36.0% takes back 2.6 points for card-credit normalisation off a 0.47% group net charge-off ratio, which the deck itself frames as better than a year ago rather than as a mid-cycle rate.
  • Seasonality was tested and rejected: signal 0.0219 against a worst window spread of 0.0145, with the whole amplitude inside plus or minus 1% of revenue.
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