Higher Yields Lead To a Profitable Q1 For E-Trade

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E*Trade Financial (NASDAQ:ETFC) announced its Q1 fiscal 2016 earnings on Thursday, April 21st, reporting a 7% year-on-year (y-o-y) rise in net revenues to $472 million. In line with our expectations, daily average revenue trades (DARTs) fell 3% year on year (y-o-y) to 165,000 in the quarter, causing transaction-based revenues to decline. However, the fall in transaction revenues was more than offset by a surge in net interest income. Although average client balances on the company’s balance sheet fell marginally to $41 billion, a rise of 40 bps in the average yield helped by the December Fed rate hike, resulted in higher net interest income of $287 million (+15% y-o-y). The company expects the average yield to moderate in the on-going quarter (Q2) to around 2.6%.

In terms of the bottom-line, the company managed to cut down on its provision for loan losses and losses on the extinguishment of debt, leading to a 18% y-o-y decline in operating expenses. As a result, EBITDA doubled to $185 million, helping margins upwards by 18 percentage points to 39.2% in Q1.

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