Earnings Season Kicks Off With Bank Earnings Bonanza

Earnings season is approaching, and some of Wall Street's biggest banks will release their quarterly reports on Friday.

Here is a list of analyst ratings and stock price targets for the three major banks reporting on Friday: Wells Fargo & Co WFC, JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPM and Bank of America Corp BAC.

Wells Fargo

Buy Ratings
  • Argus research: Buy rating.
  • Baird: Buy rating, $58 price target.
  • Barclays: Buy rating, $65 price target.
  • Citigroup: Buy rating.
  • Credit Suisse: Buy rating, $50 price target.
  • Deutsche Bank: Buy rating, $50 price target.
  • Evercore ISI: Buy rating, $51 price target.
  • Instinet, LLC: Buy rating, $51 price target.
  • Merill Lynch: Buy rating, $50 price target.
  • Morgan Stanley: Buy rating, $53 price target.
  • RBC Capital: Buy rating, $52 price target.
Hold
  • FBR Capital: Hold rating.
  • Jefferies: Hold rating, $58 price target.
  • JPMorgan: Hold rating.
  • KBW: Hold rating, $48 price target.
  • Oppenheimer: Hold rating.
  • Pacific Crest: Hold rating.
  • Sandler O'Neill: Hold rating.
  • Susquehanna: Hold rating.
  • UBS: Hold rating.
Sell
  • BMO Capital: Sell rating.
  • Guggenheim: Sell rating, $47 price target.
  • Macquarie: Sell rating.
  • Piper Jaffray: Sell rating, $43 price target.
  • Raymond James: Sell rating.

JPMorgan Chase

Buy
  • Barclays: Buy rating, $100 price target.
  • CLSA: Buy rating, $79 price target.
  • Credit Suisse: Buy rating, $88 price target.
  • Deutsche Bank: Buy rating, $73 price target.
  • Drexel Hamilton: Buy rating, $78 price target.
  • FBR Capital: Buy rating, $85 price target.
  • Jefferies: Buy rating, $94 price target.
  • KBW: Buy rating.
  • Merrill Lynch: Buy rating, $70 price target.
  • Morgan Stanley: Buy rating, $70 price target.
  • RBC Capital: Buy rating, $95 price target.
  • UBS: Buy rating, $70 price target.
  • Wells Fargo: Buy rating.
Hold
  • Baird: Hold rating, $72 price target.
  • Bernstein: Hold rating, $67 price target.
  • BMO Capital: Hold rating, $77 price target.
  • Buckingham: Hold rating, $74 price target.
  • Citigroup: Hold rating, $65 price target.
  • Goldman Sachs: Hold rating, $71 price target.
  • Instinet, LLC: Hold rating, $65 price target.
  • Macquarie: Hold rating, $70 price target.
  • Oppenheimer: Hold rating.
  • Sandler O'Neill: Hold rating.
Sell
  • Compass Point: Sell rating, $50 price target.
  • Renaissance Macro Securities: Sell rating, $85 price target.

Bank Of America

Buy
  • Atlantic Equities: Buy rating, $25 price target.
  • Bernstein: Buy rating, $17 price target.
  • CFRA: Buy rating, $18 price target.
  • Citigroup: Buy rating.
  • CLSA: Buy rating, $25 price target.
  • Credit Suisse: Buy rating, $19 price target.
  • FBR Capital: Buy rating, $21 price target.
  • Goldman Sachs: Buy rating, $19 price target.
  • Instinet, LLC: Buy rating, $19 price target.
  • Jefferies: Buy rating, $24 price target.
  • KBW: Buy rating, $23 price target.
  • Morgan Stanley: Buy rating, $17 price target.
  • Oppenheimer: Buy rating, $19 price target.
  • Rafferty Capital: Buy rating, $19 price target.
  • Raymond James: Buy rating.
  • Renaissance Macro Securities: Buy rating, $26 price target.
  • UBS: Buy rating, $18 price target.
Hold
  • Baird: Hold rating, $16 price target.
  • Barclays: Hold rating, $26 price target.
  • BMO Capital: Hold rating, $20 price target.
  • Compass Point: Hold rating, $13 price target.
  • Deutsche Bank: Hold rating, $17 price target.
  • Guggenheim: Hold rating, $22 price target.
  • Societe Generale: Hold rating, $17 price target.
  • Standpoint Research: Hold rating.
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