U.S. Bancorp · USB · FY2025 Q2 · Calendar Q3 2025

U.S. Bancorp Maintains Guidance as Fee Growth Supports Q2 Results

The quarter supports a constructive but conditional view: resilient fee businesses, expense discipline and balance-sheet repositioning are supporting earnings growth, while the durability of net interest margin and payments momentum will determine whether that progress persists.

Reported Before market openNYSEFinancial Services $87.50B market cap
100quality score

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Reported versus consensus
Reported EPS $1.11 Consensus $1.07
EPS surprise +3.7% Reported versus consensus
Reported revenue $6.97B Consensus $7.05B
Revenue surprise -1.0% Reported versus consensus

Market reaction

prior-close to event-session close
Stock move -1.0% Event window
SPY move +0.6% Same window
Abnormal move -1.6% Stock minus SPY
Volume 1.9× Versus trailing sessions
Subsequent drift +3.6% Up to 20 sessions
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What changed

Compared with the prior-quarter analysis, management highlighted a higher fee mix at 42% of net revenue, continued positive operating leverage, a shift toward C&I and credit-card lending, and roughly $6 billion of mortgage and auto-loan divestitures. It also added detail on digital and AI investment and potential stablecoin processing.

Guidance delta

Management maintained its guidance, including at least 200 basis points of operating leverage and a 3% medium-term NIM target.

Key takeaways

  • Management reported $1.11 EPS and 13% adjusted year-over-year growth.
  • Fee revenue reached 42% of net revenue and grew 4.6% year over year.
  • The balance sheet shifted toward C&I and credit-card loans after mortgage and auto-loan divestitures.
  • Digital, AI, payments and capital-markets investments remain central to the growth plan.

Management priorities

  • Continue expense discipline and improve the efficiency ratio
  • Accelerate organic growth in payments and capital markets
  • Use digital investments and balance-sheet optimization to improve productivity and profitability

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Earnings History

Estimate Beat Miss Match
USB REVENUE earnings history estimate and actual scatter chart 9 reported fiscal quarters and 4 future estimate-only quarters. Q1 '24 estimate $7B Q1 '24 actual $10B, beat Q2 '24 estimate $7B Q2 '24 actual $11B, beat Q3 '24 estimate $7B Q3 '24 actual $3B, miss Q2 '25 estimate $7B Q2 '25 actual $7B, miss Q3 '25 estimate $7B Q3 '25 actual $7B, beat Q4 '25 estimate $7B Q4 '25 actual $7B, beat Q1 '26 estimate $7B Q1 '26 actual $7B, beat Q2 '26 estimate $8B Q2 '26 actual $8B, beat Q3 '26 estimate $8B Q4 '26 estimate $8B Q1 '27 estimate $8B Q2 '27 estimate $8B
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Analyst Consensus ?

ConsensusHold49 ratings
Bullish2551.0%
Neutral2244.9%
Bearish24.1%

Analyst 52W Price Targets

$56.17Previous close
$42Low
$62.23Average
$76High

Latest persisted target per named analyst; persisted previous close from FN2's market snapshot as of Oct 8, 2026. Not an FN2 forecast.

Firm-level rating actions

FMP grade actions identify the grading firm, not a named analyst.

FirmRatingPrior ratingActionDate
Raymond James Strong Buy Strong BuyMaintainOct 6, 2026
UBS Neutral NeutralMaintainOct 5, 2026
JP Morgan Neutral NeutralMaintainOct 2, 2026
Truist Securities Buy BuyMaintainOct 1, 2026
Evercore ISI Group Outperform OutperformMaintainOct 1, 2026
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Named analyst price targets

Upside is calculated against the persisted previous close $56.17. FMP does not supply a rating on these named-analyst rows.

FirmAnalyst52W targetPrice when postedUpsideDate
UBSAnalyst unavailable$64$57.51 +13.9%Oct 5, 2026
Truist FinancialJohn McDonald$67$56.27 +19.3%Oct 1, 2026
HSBCAnalyst unavailable$76$58.96 +35.3%Sep 28, 2026
RBC CapitalGerard Cassidy$68$62.32 +21.1%Aug 24, 2026
Evercore ISIJohn Pancari$72$63.52 +28.2%Jul 20, 2026
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Company context

Snapshot as of publication

U.S. Bancorp (USB) functions as a broad-based financial services holding company, delivering a comprehensive spectrum of banking and financial solutions throughout the United States. Its diverse customer base includes individual consumers, various businesses, institutional organizations, governmental bodies, and other financial entities. The company organizes its operations across key segments: Corporate and Commercial Banking, Consumer and Business Banking, Wealth Management and Investment Services, Payment Services, and Treasury and Corporate Support. Its offerings encompass fundamental depository services such as checking accounts, savings accounts, and time certificates. U.S. Bancorp also extends a variety of credit facilities, including traditional lending products, credit card services, lease financing, support for import/export trade, asset-backed lending, and agricultural finance.…

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