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Wells Fargo earnings shock: 3.5% ahead of its rivals!

TL;DR

Since the results day, Wells Fargo's stock has run 3.5% ahead of a basket of its big-bank rivals. The year before that, holding it went nowhere. The quarter's own income figures are not in our data.

The stock pulled ahead of its big-bank rivals after the results

Wells Fargo published its third-quarter 2026 results on 13 October, before the market opened. Both lines on the chart dipped that day, and the Wells Fargo line still sat a touch above the line. Its own one-day abnormal return was -0.6%, the stock's move with the market's own move stripped out. Then the gap widened.

Wells Fargo and its rivals around the results
Wells Fargo ended the window above the peer basket, 3.5% ahead counting from the results day.
Data table
dayseriesvalueseries_role
-5Wells Fargo0.1%target
-4Wells Fargo-1.4%target
-3Wells Fargo0.7%target
-2Wells Fargo2.6%target
-1Wells Fargo2.3%target
0Wells Fargo-0.9%target
1Wells Fargo-0.7%target
2Wells Fargo1.6%target
3Wells Fargo3.0%target
4Wells Fargo0.4%target
5Wells Fargo0.9%target
-5Peer basket0.1%peer
-4Peer basket-0.7%peer
-3Peer basket-0.3%peer
-2Peer basket0.7%peer
-1Peer basket1.6%peer
0Peer basket-1.0%peer
1Peer basket-2.8%peer
2Peer basket-2.3%peer
3Peer basket-1.9%peer
4Peer basket-3.7%peer
5Peer basket-3.2%peer
-5Cumulative abnormal return-0.0%neutral
-4Cumulative abnormal return-0.7%neutral
-3Cumulative abnormal return1.0%neutral
-2Cumulative abnormal return1.9%neutral
-1Cumulative abnormal return0.7%neutral
0Cumulative abnormal return0.2%neutral
1Cumulative abnormal return2.2%neutral
2Cumulative abnormal return4.0%neutral
3Cumulative abnormal return4.9%neutral
4Cumulative abnormal return4.3%neutral
5Cumulative abnormal return4.2%neutral

Counting the results day and the sessions after it, our window holds 6 . Across that window the stock ran 3.5% ahead of the peer basket. The basket is small: it holds 3 banks, namely Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup. A beginner's trap here is reading the first-day move as the whole story. The move happened in the same window as the news, which is all a price chart can tell you.

Glossary
peer basket
A small group of similar companies, averaged together, used as a yardstick. A name that falls less than its group has done better than the group.
trading days
Days the stock market is open. Weekends and holidays are skipped, so a week of trading days is shorter than a calendar week.

Zoom out to a year and the stock went nowhere

Zoom out and the story is duller. Over the 252 trading days to 23 October 2026, a year in the stock returned -0.3%. The market returned 14.4% over the same year.

Over the past year, how much do you think Wells Fargo stock returned?

Show answer

-0.3% It was -0.3%. Dividends included, a year holding the stock left you roughly where you started, while the market returned 14.4%. One good quarter does not undo a flat year.

A year in the stock, next to the market
A year in the stock returned -0.3%, while the market returned 14.4%.
Data table
dateseriesvalueseries_role
2025-10-23Wells Fargo$10,000.0target
2025-10-24Wells Fargo$10,231.1target
2025-10-27Wells Fargo$10,301.2target
2025-10-28Wells Fargo$10,289.1target
2025-10-29Wells Fargo$10,181.5target
2025-10-30Wells Fargo$10,180.3target
2025-10-31Wells Fargo$10,296.4target
2025-11-03Wells Fargo$10,336.3target
2025-11-04Wells Fargo$10,315.8target
2025-11-05Wells Fargo$10,294.0target
2025-11-06Wells Fargo$10,186.3target
2025-11-07Wells Fargo$10,240.7target
2025-11-10Wells Fargo$10,248.0target
2025-11-11Wells Fargo$10,257.7target
2025-11-12Wells Fargo$10,266.2target
2025-11-13Wells Fargo$10,081.1target
2025-11-14Wells Fargo$10,122.2target
2025-11-17Wells Fargo$9,928.6target
2025-11-18Wells Fargo$9,980.6target
2025-11-19Wells Fargo$10,016.9target
2025-11-20Wells Fargo$9,807.6target
2025-11-21Wells Fargo$9,891.1target
2025-11-24Wells Fargo$10,076.2target
2025-11-25Wells Fargo$10,128.2target
2025-11-26Wells Fargo$10,182.7target
2025-11-28Wells Fargo$10,217.8target
2025-12-01Wells Fargo$10,164.5target
2025-12-02Wells Fargo$10,273.4target
2025-12-03Wells Fargo$10,633.9target
2025-12-04Wells Fargo$10,736.8target
2025-12-05Wells Fargo$10,692.0target
2025-12-08Wells Fargo$10,718.6target
2025-12-09Wells Fargo$10,579.5target
2025-12-10Wells Fargo$10,793.6target
2025-12-11Wells Fargo$11,019.8target
2025-12-12Wells Fargo$11,040.4target
2025-12-15Wells Fargo$11,057.3target
2025-12-16Wells Fargo$10,972.7target
2025-12-17Wells Fargo$11,019.8target
2025-12-18Wells Fargo$10,888.0target
2025-12-19Wells Fargo$11,069.4target
2025-12-22Wells Fargo$11,220.7target
2025-12-23Wells Fargo$11,243.6target
2025-12-24Wells Fargo$11,342.9target
2025-12-26Wells Fargo$11,338.0target
2025-12-29Wells Fargo$11,249.7target
2025-12-30Wells Fargo$11,224.3target
2025-12-31Wells Fargo$11,092.4target
2026-01-02Wells Fargo$11,330.8target
2026-01-05Wells Fargo$11,471.1target
2026-01-06Wells Fargo$11,472.3target
2026-01-07Wells Fargo$11,221.9target
2026-01-08Wells Fargo$11,377.9target
2026-01-09Wells Fargo$11,420.3target
2026-01-12Wells Fargo$11,301.7target
2026-01-13Wells Fargo$11,134.8target
2026-01-14Wells Fargo$10,621.8target
2026-01-15Wells Fargo$10,588.0target
2026-01-16Wells Fargo$10,519.0target
2026-01-20Wells Fargo$10,314.5target
2026-01-21Wells Fargo$10,250.4target
2026-01-22Wells Fargo$10,477.9target
2026-01-23Wells Fargo$10,349.6target
2026-01-26Wells Fargo$10,479.1target
2026-01-27Wells Fargo$10,557.7target
2026-01-28Wells Fargo$10,476.7target
2026-01-29Wells Fargo$10,787.6target
2026-01-30Wells Fargo$10,769.4target
2026-02-02Wells Fargo$10,982.3target
2026-02-03Wells Fargo$10,986.0target
2026-02-04Wells Fargo$11,085.2target
2026-02-05Wells Fargo$10,950.9target
2026-02-06Wells Fargo$11,238.8target
2026-02-09Wells Fargo$11,316.2target
2026-02-10Wells Fargo$10,993.2target
2026-02-11Wells Fargo$10,638.8target
2026-02-12Wells Fargo$10,320.6target
2026-02-13Wells Fargo$10,402.9target
2026-02-17Wells Fargo$10,453.7target
2026-02-18Wells Fargo$10,591.6target
2026-02-19Wells Fargo$10,474.2target
2026-02-20Wells Fargo$10,608.5target
2026-02-23Wells Fargo$10,183.9target
2026-02-24Wells Fargo$10,114.9target
2026-02-25Wells Fargo$10,376.2target
2026-02-26Wells Fargo$10,321.8target
2026-02-27Wells Fargo$9,741.1target
2026-03-02Wells Fargo$9,876.6target
2026-03-03Wells Fargo$9,870.6target
2026-03-04Wells Fargo$10,038.7target
2026-03-05Wells Fargo$9,821.0target
2026-03-06Wells Fargo$9,618.9target
2026-03-09Wells Fargo$9,427.8target
2026-03-10Wells Fargo$9,364.9target
2026-03-11Wells Fargo$9,195.5target
2026-03-12Wells Fargo$9,000.7target
2026-03-13Wells Fargo$8,862.8target
2026-03-16Wells Fargo$9,060.0target
2026-03-17Wells Fargo$9,116.9target
2026-03-18Wells Fargo$9,112.0target
2026-03-19Wells Fargo$9,136.2target
2026-03-20Wells Fargo$9,281.4target
2026-03-23Wells Fargo$9,362.4target
2026-03-24Wells Fargo$9,522.1target
2026-03-25Wells Fargo$9,599.6target
2026-03-26Wells Fargo$9,450.8target
2026-03-27Wells Fargo$9,231.8target
2026-03-30Wells Fargo$9,185.8target
2026-03-31Wells Fargo$9,522.1target
2026-04-01Wells Fargo$9,635.9target
2026-04-02Wells Fargo$9,639.5target
2026-04-06Wells Fargo$9,789.5target
2026-04-07Wells Fargo$9,777.4target
2026-04-08Wells Fargo$10,125.8target
2026-04-09Wells Fargo$10,287.9target
2026-04-10Wells Fargo$10,214.1target
2026-04-13Wells Fargo$10,362.9target
2026-04-14Wells Fargo$9,771.4target
2026-04-15Wells Fargo$9,603.2target
2026-04-16Wells Fargo$9,718.1target
2026-04-17Wells Fargo$9,737.5target
2026-04-20Wells Fargo$9,804.0target
2026-04-21Wells Fargo$9,753.2target
2026-04-22Wells Fargo$9,637.1target
2026-04-23Wells Fargo$9,629.8target
2026-04-24Wells Fargo$9,499.2target
2026-04-27Wells Fargo$9,634.6target
2026-04-28Wells Fargo$9,747.2target
2026-04-29Wells Fargo$9,748.4target
2026-04-30Wells Fargo$9,835.5target
2026-05-01Wells Fargo$9,664.9target
2026-05-04Wells Fargo$9,470.1target
2026-05-05Wells Fargo$9,554.8target
2026-05-06Wells Fargo$9,618.9target
2026-05-07Wells Fargo$9,467.7target
2026-05-08Wells Fargo$9,098.7target
2026-05-11Wells Fargo$8,850.7target
2026-05-12Wells Fargo$9,043.1target
2026-05-13Wells Fargo$8,844.7target
2026-05-14Wells Fargo$8,876.1target
2026-05-15Wells Fargo$8,831.4target
2026-05-18Wells Fargo$8,946.3target
2026-05-19Wells Fargo$8,966.9target
2026-05-20Wells Fargo$9,119.3target
2026-05-21Wells Fargo$9,132.6target
2026-05-22Wells Fargo$9,189.5target
2026-05-26Wells Fargo$9,324.9target
2026-05-27Wells Fargo$9,155.6target
2026-05-28Wells Fargo$9,219.7target
2026-05-29Wells Fargo$9,327.4target
2026-06-01Wells Fargo$9,282.6target
2026-06-02Wells Fargo$9,556.0target
2026-06-03Wells Fargo$9,464.1target
2026-06-04Wells Fargo$9,817.3target
2026-06-05Wells Fargo$9,856.0target
2026-06-08Wells Fargo$9,738.7target
2026-06-09Wells Fargo$9,863.3target
2026-06-10Wells Fargo$9,859.7target
2026-06-11Wells Fargo$9,911.7target
2026-06-12Wells Fargo$10,071.4target
2026-06-15Wells Fargo$10,001.2target
2026-06-16Wells Fargo$10,229.9target
2026-06-17Wells Fargo$10,081.1target
2026-06-18Wells Fargo$9,887.5target
2026-06-22Wells Fargo$10,084.7target
2026-06-23Wells Fargo$10,119.8target
2026-06-24Wells Fargo$10,140.3target
2026-06-25Wells Fargo$10,193.6target
2026-06-26Wells Fargo$10,087.1target
2026-06-29Wells Fargo$10,044.8target
2026-06-30Wells Fargo$9,940.7target
2026-07-01Wells Fargo$10,337.5target
2026-07-02Wells Fargo$10,285.5target
2026-07-06Wells Fargo$10,519.0target
2026-07-07Wells Fargo$10,486.3target
2026-07-08Wells Fargo$10,291.6target
2026-07-09Wells Fargo$10,453.7target
2026-07-10Wells Fargo$10,483.9target
2026-07-13Wells Fargo$10,545.6target
2026-07-14Wells Fargo$10,258.9target
2026-07-15Wells Fargo$10,526.3target
2026-07-16Wells Fargo$10,594.0target
2026-07-17Wells Fargo$10,526.3target
2026-07-20Wells Fargo$10,384.7target
2026-07-21Wells Fargo$10,554.1target
2026-07-22Wells Fargo$10,395.6target
2026-07-23Wells Fargo$10,367.8target
2026-07-24Wells Fargo$10,382.3target
2026-07-27Wells Fargo$10,497.2target
2026-07-28Wells Fargo$10,448.8target
2026-07-29Wells Fargo$10,088.3target
2026-07-30Wells Fargo$10,275.8target
2026-07-31Wells Fargo$10,399.2target
2026-08-03Wells Fargo$10,572.2target
2026-08-04Wells Fargo$10,632.7target
2026-08-05Wells Fargo$10,725.9target
2026-08-06Wells Fargo$10,535.9target
2026-08-07Wells Fargo$10,555.3target
2026-08-10Wells Fargo$10,588.0target
2026-08-11Wells Fargo$10,579.5target
2026-08-12Wells Fargo$10,758.5target
2026-08-13Wells Fargo$10,659.3target
2026-08-14Wells Fargo$10,745.2target
2026-08-17Wells Fargo$10,590.4target
2026-08-18Wells Fargo$10,573.4target
2026-08-19Wells Fargo$10,396.8target
2026-08-20Wells Fargo$10,125.8target
2026-08-21Wells Fargo$10,142.8target
2026-08-24Wells Fargo$10,249.2target
2026-08-25Wells Fargo$10,257.7target
2026-08-26Wells Fargo$10,310.9target
2026-08-27Wells Fargo$10,279.5target
2026-08-28Wells Fargo$10,487.5target
2026-08-31Wells Fargo$10,451.2target
2026-09-01Wells Fargo$10,529.9target
2026-09-02Wells Fargo$10,799.7target
2026-09-03Wells Fargo$10,790.0target
2026-09-04Wells Fargo$10,884.3target
2026-09-08Wells Fargo$10,641.2target
2026-09-09Wells Fargo$10,848.1target
2026-09-10Wells Fargo$10,821.4target
2026-09-11Wells Fargo$10,923.1target
2026-09-14Wells Fargo$10,731.9target
2026-09-15Wells Fargo$10,854.1target
2026-09-16Wells Fargo$10,531.1target
2026-09-17Wells Fargo$10,511.7target
2026-09-18Wells Fargo$10,418.6target
2026-09-21Wells Fargo$10,469.4target
2026-09-22Wells Fargo$10,059.3target
2026-09-23Wells Fargo$9,908.1target
2026-09-24Wells Fargo$9,941.9target
2026-09-25Wells Fargo$10,037.5target
2026-09-28Wells Fargo$9,776.2target
2026-09-29Wells Fargo$9,736.3target
2026-09-30Wells Fargo$9,684.2target
2026-10-01Wells Fargo$9,708.4target
2026-10-02Wells Fargo$9,732.6target
2026-10-05Wells Fargo$9,852.4target
2026-10-06Wells Fargo$9,860.9target
2026-10-07Wells Fargo$9,709.7target
2026-10-08Wells Fargo$9,923.8target
2026-10-09Wells Fargo$10,107.7target
2026-10-12Wells Fargo$10,079.8target
2026-10-13Wells Fargo$9,767.7target
2026-10-14Wells Fargo$9,787.1target
2026-10-15Wells Fargo$10,010.9target
2026-10-16Wells Fargo$10,146.4target
2026-10-19Wells Fargo$9,896.0target
2026-10-20Wells Fargo$9,944.4target
2026-10-21Wells Fargo$9,971.0target
2026-10-22Wells Fargo$10,042.3target
2026-10-23Wells Fargo$9,967.3target
2025-10-23Market$10,000.0benchmark
2025-10-24Market$10,081.7benchmark
2025-10-27Market$10,200.7benchmark
2025-10-28Market$10,227.8benchmark
2025-10-29Market$10,232.6benchmark
2025-10-30Market$10,120.1benchmark
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2025-11-04Market$10,051.8benchmark
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2025-11-10Market$10,144.1benchmark
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2026-06-08Market$11,066.8benchmark
2026-06-09Market$11,034.5benchmark
2026-06-10Market$10,860.4benchmark
2026-06-11Market$11,045.0benchmark
2026-06-12Market$11,104.7benchmark
2026-06-15Market$11,300.7benchmark
2026-06-16Market$11,233.2benchmark
2026-06-17Market$11,093.0benchmark
2026-06-18Market$11,208.3benchmark
2026-06-22Market$11,173.1benchmark
2026-06-23Market$11,010.7benchmark
2026-06-24Market$11,005.6benchmark
2026-06-25Market$11,021.5benchmark
2026-06-26Market$10,941.8benchmark
2026-06-29Market$11,122.0benchmark
2026-06-30Market$11,208.7benchmark
2026-07-01Market$11,193.5benchmark
2026-07-02Market$11,178.9benchmark
2026-07-06Market$11,276.4benchmark
2026-07-07Market$11,222.9benchmark
2026-07-08Market$11,188.1benchmark
2026-07-09Market$11,282.9benchmark
2026-07-10Market$11,331.5benchmark
2026-07-13Market$11,244.7benchmark
2026-07-14Market$11,284.7benchmark
2026-07-15Market$11,329.4benchmark
2026-07-16Market$11,268.0benchmark
2026-07-17Market$11,156.5benchmark
2026-07-20Market$11,138.4benchmark
2026-07-21Market$11,231.4benchmark
2026-07-22Market$11,218.3benchmark
2026-07-23Market$11,079.8benchmark
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2026-07-27Market$11,093.5benchmark
2026-07-28Market$11,119.9benchmark
2026-07-29Market$10,948.9benchmark
2026-07-30Market$11,132.4benchmark
2026-07-31Market$11,212.6benchmark
2026-08-03Market$11,372.3benchmark
2026-08-04Market$11,577.4benchmark
2026-08-05Market$11,554.2benchmark
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2026-08-10Market$11,602.9benchmark
2026-08-11Market$11,565.8benchmark
2026-08-12Market$11,594.8benchmark
2026-08-13Market$11,675.6benchmark
2026-08-14Market$11,652.6benchmark
2026-08-17Market$11,597.5benchmark
2026-08-18Market$11,519.1benchmark
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2026-08-20Market$11,446.3benchmark
2026-08-21Market$11,493.1benchmark
2026-08-24Market$11,459.4benchmark
2026-08-25Market$11,496.0benchmark
2026-08-26Market$11,498.5benchmark
2026-08-27Market$11,573.9benchmark
2026-08-28Market$11,547.6benchmark
2026-08-31Market$11,513.1benchmark
2026-09-01Market$11,434.0benchmark
2026-09-02Market$11,484.7benchmark
2026-09-03Market$11,604.9benchmark
2026-09-04Market$11,560.2benchmark
2026-09-08Market$11,496.7benchmark
2026-09-09Market$11,443.3benchmark
2026-09-10Market$11,374.7benchmark
2026-09-11Market$11,471.7benchmark
2026-09-14Market$11,420.6benchmark
2026-09-15Market$11,368.1benchmark
2026-09-16Market$11,318.0benchmark
2026-09-17Market$11,446.3benchmark
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2026-09-23Market$11,553.1benchmark
2026-09-24Market$11,543.7benchmark
2026-09-25Market$11,606.4benchmark
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2026-10-21Market$11,632.6benchmark
2026-10-22Market$11,495.2benchmark
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The ride was not calm either. From its high the stock dropped as much as -23.0%, the deepest fall from a peak inside the year. Its worst single day was -5.7%. The chart's growth line uses prices that already include dividends paid back in. The starting amount on the chart is an illustration we picked, not advice. Past returns do not tell you what comes next.

What we cannot see yet: the quarter's own figures

One honest gap: Wells Fargo's own revenue, expense, provision and earnings-per-share figures for the third quarter of 2026 are not available in our data, so this note sticks to what prices show. The price data runs through 23 October 2026, the last period covered here. My reading: the price gap tells you how the stock moved next to its rivals, and nothing about the books themselves. For now, two things are solid: the window around the results, and the flat year behind it.

Quick quiz

What can this note actually show you about the quarter?

Show answer

How the stock moved next to its rivals The price window shows the stock ending ahead of the peer basket. The income statement details are not in our data here, so we do not guess at them.

Risks

  • The peer basket is small and the banks differ, so the comparison may be too narrow to mean much.
  • One-off items, such as a business sale or venture-capital swings, can flatter or dent a single quarter.
  • Accounting changes can distort year-on-year comparisons, and we cannot check them without the statements.

Sources

  1. FinMind USStockPrice BAC — data as of 2026-10-23; fetched 2026-10-25 17:08 UTC; License note: FinMind open data; original source TWSE/TPEx or US exchanges
  2. FinMind USStockPrice C — data as of 2026-10-23; fetched 2026-10-25 17:08 UTC; License note: FinMind open data; original source TWSE/TPEx or US exchanges
  3. FinMind USStockPrice JPM — data as of 2026-10-23; fetched 2026-10-25 17:08 UTC; License note: FinMind open data; original source TWSE/TPEx or US exchanges
  4. FinMind USStockPrice WFC — data as of 2026-10-23; fetched 2026-10-25 17:08 UTC, 2026-10-25 17:09 UTC; License note: FinMind open data; original source TWSE/TPEx or US exchanges
  5. FinMind USStockPrice SPY — data as of 2026-10-23; fetched 2026-10-25 16:32 UTC; License note: FinMind open data; original source TWSE/TPEx or US exchanges