JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon on Monday bought $32.8 million within the financial institution’s inventory, bringing the whole proceeds from shaving off a portion of his possession stake to almost $183 million this yr.
In February, he offloaded more than 800,000 shares price $150 million, marking the primary time he bought JPMorgan inventory since turning into CEO 19 years in the past.
Dimon is thought to be a robust believer in consuming your individual cooking and holding onto fairness. However the firm mentioned final yr that he and his household deliberate to promote 1 million shares of JPMorgan for monetary diversification and tax planning functions.
As of final yr, Dimon held 8.6 million shares of JPMorgan inventory and inventory appreciation rights regarding 1.5 million shares. His compensation in 2023 was valued at $36 million, with $29.5 million within the type of inventory awards. The board’s compensation committee launched a coverage in 2022 that caps Dimon’s annual money bonus at 25% of his annual comp. In 2023, the board gave Dimon a bonus of $5 million, which the corporate says is properly beneath the $10 million median of complete money quantities for CEOs on the financial institution’s friends. Till this yr, he had by no means bought inventory in JPMorgan. The share worth was $182.89 at this time, up 6.3% yr so far.
One other member of Dimon’s internal circle at JPMorgan, world chief info officer Lori Beer, additionally bought inventory lately. In March, Beer bought 3,920 shares price $765,811 after beforehand promoting on the identical day as Dimon’s first sale. On Feb. 22, Beer bought off 3,920 shares at a barely decrease inventory worth for $716,340.
February noticed a parade of high-profile executives unload stock, together with Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Leon Black, cofounder and former CEO of Apollo Global Management.
In an earnings announcement final week, JPMorgan reported first-quarter income of $13.4 billion, or $4.44 per share, on revenues of $42.5 billion. That included a $725 million improve within the particular evaluation that got here from the FDIC’s estimate of anticipated losses from final yr’s closures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.
“We’re earning a lot of money,” mentioned Dimon throughout the earnings name in response to a query. “Our capital cup runneth over and that’s why we increased the dividend.”
