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SCHW forward model
Horizon
Consolidated fair value $137.50 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $401M 4% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution $2.77B EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

Management's own algorithm is granted. Client engagement holds rather than reverting - the guided pullback in daily average trades does not arrive - the lending and advice penetration gaps start closing, the mix shift out of a $131.1B held-to-maturity book yielding 1.73% keeps lifting the margin past the guided exit, and operating leverage stays at the roughly 800bp implied for 2026 rather than the 400bp assumed in January. Implemented as a +0.6% sequential growth tilt, a +1.5 point margin delta, a 20x P/E exit (15.263x on pre-tax) and an 8.75% cost of equity. WHAT THIS CASE DOES NOT REACH is a permanent 44% return on a growing tangible book: it gets Schwab to 9.754x reported tangible book, which is 6.80x on the AOCI-adjusted basis - a high multiple on a franchise earning today's returns, not a re-rating onto a different business. Result: $137.50 a share, +27.25%.

Other revenue

Basis quarter$342M
Final quarter$401M
Implied CAGR+3%
Final revenue mix4%

A residual: industry fees, certain service fees, other gains and losses, AND the provision for credit losses on bank loans. 4.8% of the basis quarter and the only line with no priced volume Schwab publishes, so it takes a growth driver by exclusion rather than by choice. It jumped 75% sequentially to $342M in the basis quarter and the 10-Q attributes that 'largely' to higher industry fees after the SEC raised its Section 31 fee rate effective 4 April 2026 - a rate reset annually that can fall as easily as it rose. This is also where the credit cycle lives: the bank-loan provision is netted inside this revenue line rather than shown as an expense.

Last four quarters
2025 Q3 $170M Reported
2025 Q4 $127M Reported
2026 Q1 $195M Reported
2026 Q2 $342M Reported
Industry fees (SEC Section 31 and similar)Certain service feesOther gains and lossesProvision for credit losses on bank loans (a DEDUCTION inside this line)
Sequential growth −6.0%/qtr decaying toward +1.2% -6.0%: gives back part of a $205M-to-$342M jump the 10-Q attributes largely to the SEC fee rise.
Other revenue

Latest: $401M (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2021Q4 $135M
2022Q1 $164M
2022Q2 $260M
2022Q3 $184M
2022Q4 $174M
2023Q1 $185M
2023Q2 $215M
2023Q3 $172M
2023Q4 $147M
2024Q1 $159M
2024Q2 $219M
2024Q3 $200M
2024Q4 $175M
2025Q1 $210M
2025Q2 $260M
2025Q3 $170M
2025Q4 $127M
2026Q1 $195M
2026Q2 $342M
2026Q3E $323M
2026Q4E $314M
2027Q1E $310M
2027Q2E $310M
2027Q3E $312M
2027Q4E $315M
2028Q1E $319M
2028Q2E $324M
2028Q3E $329M
2028Q4E $334M
2029Q1E $340M
2029Q2E $346M
2029Q3E $353M
2029Q4E $359M
2030Q1E $366M
2030Q2E $373M
2030Q3E $379M
2030Q4E $386M
2031Q1E $394M
2031Q2E $401M

Assumptions & reasoning

  • A GROWTH driver BY EXCLUSION. There is no published volume or price for industry fees, service fees or other gains and losses, so this is the one line in the model where the engine is extrapolating a dollar level rather than charging a disclosed price against a disclosed base.
  • SEASONALITY PASSES THE SPREAD GATE AND IS STILL REJECTED - the one judgement call in the set. Centred-moving-average factors are [0.9668, 1.2638, 0.9598, 0.8096], a signal of 0.4542 against a worst window-to-window spread of 0.2511, a 1.81:1 ratio that clears the mechanical test, and the four Q2 window ratios are consistently high at 1.364, 1.174, 1.185, 1.315.
  • It is rejected on STABILITY, on the same ground GS's Global Banking & Markets was rejected at a stronger 2.34:1: the Q4 window ratios run 0.892, 0.846, 0.849, 0.641, which is a trend rather than a repeat. The line is 2.4%-4.8% of revenue, so the whole decision is worth a fraction of a percent of fair value.
  • THIS IS THE VERTICAL THAT CARRIES THE CREDIT CYCLE, and it is a REVENUE line that can go negative if provisions spike. It never has in nineteen quarters - the minimum is $127M in 2025 Q4 - and the base case's minimum projected quarter is $302.3M, so the 0.2% capex intensity is safe here. If a future revision drives this line below zero, capexIntensity on this vertical must be set to EXACTLY 0 or the engine will print a phantom cash inflow.
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