Wells Fargo (WFC)'s Moved the Table, Says Jim Cramer

We recently published 10 Stocks on Jim Cramer’s Radar.  Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) is one of the stocks on Jim Cramer's radar.

2025 has been an important year for Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) after the Federal Reserve finally removed its asset cap on the firm in June. Year-to-date, the stock is up by 34.5%. Since then, the bank has seen several analysts share their opinions about it. For instance, on November 12th, Truist reiterated a Buy rating on Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC)’s shares after the bank’s fiscal third-quarter earnings report. The results saw the bank report $21.44 billion in revenue and $1.73 in earnings per share. Both of these metrics beat analyst estimates. Truist’s latest action on Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC)’s shares came on December 18th, when it maintained a Buy rating and increased the share price target to $100 from $90. The price target bump came after Keefe, Bruyette & Woods had also increased the target to $101 from $92 on December 17th and reiterated a Market Perform rating. Cramer is also quite optimistic about Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) as are the analysts:

“Something we talked about earlier this week, there’s a change in Wells Fargo. This was a bank that we said, they’re around the table, the kitchen table. Now they’re around the table, the deal table. David, you have said over and over again, [inaudible] seeing the names of the people who work at Wells, and they’re not Wells people. They’re from everywhere. A lot of these people are people I think weren’t able to become CEO at their companies because the CEO himself wouldn’t retire.

“David, one thing I would point out, Charlie Scharf, many people know, is just one of the nicest people. And he’s a regular person, and that’s attractive to the people who are leaving the master of the universe firm. To go to someone who just says let’s get it done. . .I’ve had one shouting match with Charlie, I feel badly about it, I want to take it back Charlie, I apologize, because I said why aren’t you buying more stock back? And he said, we’re buying back plenty. Well the fact is, they bought back so much. They bought back everything they could. . .”

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