Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) today released the results of its
company-run stress test conducted in accordance with the Dodd-Frank Wall
Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (DFA).
The results can be found at: https://www.wellsfargo.com/invest_relations/stress-test-reports.
The Federal Reserve has published the results of its supervisory-run DFA
stress tests for the nation’s largest banks, including Wells Fargo,
using the Dodd-Frank Capital Actions1 distribution
requirements. Wells Fargo’s estimates may differ from the Federal
Reserve’s estimates.
About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a diversified, community-based
financial services company with $1.8 trillion in assets. Founded in 1852
and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking,
insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance
through 8,800 locations, 13,000 ATMs, the internet (wellsfargo.com) and
mobile banking, and has offices in 36 countries to support customers who
conduct business in the global economy. With approximately 269,000 team
members, Wells Fargo serves one in three households in the United
States. Wells Fargo & Company was ranked No. 27 on Fortune’s 2016
rankings of America’s largest corporations. Wells Fargo’s vision is to
satisfy our customers’ financial needs and help them succeed financially.
Cautionary Statement About Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements about our future
regulatory capital levels, which will be an important factor in
determining the extent we may pay common stock dividends and repurchase
our common stock. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date
made, and we do not undertake to update them. Actual capital levels and
capital actions may vary materially from the expectations described in
this news release due to a number of factors, including those described
in our reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and
available at www.sec.gov.
The amount and timing of any future common stock dividends or
repurchases will depend on the earnings, cash requirements and financial
condition of the Company, market conditions, capital requirements
(including under Basel capital standards), common stock issuance
requirements, applicable law and regulations (including federal
securities laws and federal banking regulations), and other factors
deemed relevant by the Company’s Board of Directors, and may be subject
to regulatory approval or conditions.
1 Capital actions that are prescribed by the Dodd-Frank Act
stress test rule, which include estimated Q1 2016 capital actions taken
by the Company, and for quarters two through nine of the test horizon,
no issuance of regulatory capital other than assumed issuance of common
stock for employee compensation; payments of common stock dividends
equal to the quarterly average dollar amount paid by the Company from Q2
2015 through Q1 2016; payments on all other regulatory capital
instruments equal to the stated dividend, interest, or principal due
during the quarter; and no capital redemptions or repurchases.
