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The Charles Schwab Corporation

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$SCHW·$177B·Financial - Capital Markets·Financial Services
$101.97+1.2%YTD+1.0%1Y+5.7%
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SCSCHW
$SCHWThe Charles Schwab Corporation
$101.97+1.16%961 posts+4%
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Top X posts

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $SCHW, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Proven numbersAcceleratingAI verdict · as of 2026-07-23

The move is getting stronger, with heavier trading behind it.

Retail brokerage compounder just posted its 13th straight beat, launched direct crypto, and raised revenue guide — quiet accelerator.

Charles Schwab is the largest retail brokerage in the US — the plumbing that holds $13T of client assets and generates fees, interest, and asset-management revenue. Q2 was its 13th consecutive beat, management raised full-year revenue guidance to +17.5-18.5%, and Schwab just launched direct spot BTC/ETH trading — the compounder is quietly accelerating.

  • Revenue growth is unambiguous: Q1 was +9.8% YoY at $7.3B, Q2 came in at $7.07B (+13-14% versus consensus), and the raised full-year guide implies the second half will be materially stronger — the classic accelerating compounder shape.
  • Client-asset gathering is the moat: $118.7B in net new assets in Q2 brought total client assets to $13.08T — that's the multi-year annuity that turns brokerage into a subscription-like business, largely independent of trading activity.
  • Margin profile does the heavy lifting: gross margin 88%, operating margin 43%, and 19% ROE — Schwab converts revenue to earnings at a rate that lets guidance-plus-buybacks compound EPS at a much higher rate than revenue.
  • The BTC/ETH direct-trading launch is the strategic pivot: Schwab bringing spot crypto in-house captures the retail flow that has been leaking to Coinbase and Robinhood for years — small in near-term revenue but materially expands the addressable engagement.

The Oct 15 print is the next update, so the setup for the next quarter is macro-driven — Fed policy, deposit flows, and equity-market participation. Base case is continued grind higher into the print; the real risk is a deposit-mix shift or client-cash sweep pressure of the kind that tripped Schwab in 2023.

Agrees with X sentimentX is bullish — the 13th straight beat, $13.08T client assets, $118.7B in net new assets, and the raised revenue guide validate the story cleanly. The mechanics agree with the crowd. Where we'd add: officer sales (Beatty selling weekly, Craig monetizing $2.2M in July) are worth watching, though they read more as post-vesting monetization than a change of view.

What to watch: Oct 15 Q3 print — net new assets holding above $100B and revenue growth staying above +15% keeps the compounder intact; a sharp deceleration in trading revenue or client-cash-sweep pressure would break the current trajectory.

On the calendar: 2026-10-15 — Q3 2026 earnings

X sentiment

What the X crowd is saying right now — descriptive, summarised from the day’s posts.

Bullish sentiment27 posts analyzed · as of 2026-07-22

Bullish. Charles Schwab beat Q2 with EPS of $1.62 versus $1.54-$1.56 consensus and revenue of $7.07B versus about $6.89-$6.92B expected, marking a 13th consecutive beat. Client assets grew to $13.08T with net new assets of $118.7B and FY revenue guidance raised to +17.5% to +18.5%. Schwab launched direct BTC and ETH trading.

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Full-service retail brokerage and banking platform serving individual investors and RIAs with trading, advisory, custody, and banking products.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Financial - Capital Markets sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $SCHW.

Financial - Capital Markets · Financial Services

No material change from last week — Robinhood reporting its highest single-day signups confirms the retail infrastructure layer directly benefits from high-profile IPO cycles.

What this means for $SCHW

Partial — Full-service retail brokerage and banking platform serving individual investors and RIAs with trading, advisory, custody, and banking products; partial earnings exposure to financial - capital markets demand dynamics through its product portfolio.

Top industry ETF

$IAIiShares U.S. Broker-Dealers & Securities Exchanges ETF
+5.5%YTD
+10.7%1Y

Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
19.2How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
1.9%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
43.0%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
5.8%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
6.0Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
19.1%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
87.6%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
0.7Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q2 2026Jul 21, 2026$1.62$1.56+3.8%
Q1 2026Apr 16, 2026$1.43$1.40+2.1%
Q4 2025Jan 21, 2026$1.39$1.36+2.2%
Q3 2025Oct 16, 2025$1.31$1.25+4.8%
Next earningsThu, Oct 15·consensus EPS $1.65

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$7.3B+9.8%88.8%43.7%$1.37$7.2B
Q4 FY25$7.2B+7.8%88.4%44.4%$1.34$-921.0M
Q3 FY25$7.0B+7.4%87.1%42.9%$1.26$393.0M
Q2 FY25$6.8B+7.4%85.8%41.1%$1.09$3.0B

Forward consensus

5-year forecast · up to 13 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$27.6B$26.9B – $28.5B$6.33$5.96 – $6.6013
FY27$30.8B$26.8B – $33.3B$7.64$5.93 – $8.6213
FY28$34.2B$33.6B – $34.8B$8.97$7.09 – $10.137
FY29$35.7B$32.8B – $37.5B$9.60$8.60 – $10.233
FY30$37.5B$34.5B – $39.4B$10.10$9.05 – $10.766

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.7×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.72%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.+8.1%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.+5.9%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatMega float · 1.6B shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today0.5% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β0.765-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.FilingActive offeringA shelf registration (S-3 / S-3ASR / S-1) or prospectus supplement (424B*) was filed in the last 90 days — the company is registered to (or actively) issuing new shares. Dilution risk.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

SellJul 21Jonathan S BeattyMD, Head of Advisor Services2.0K sh$208KSellJul 7Jonathan M. CraigMD, Head of Retail Investing21.8K sh$2.2MSellJul 7Jonathan S BeattyMD, Head of Advisor Services2.0K sh$204KSellJul 6Jonathan S BeattyMD, Head of Advisor Services2.0K sh$200KSellJul 2Jonathan S BeattyMD, Head of Advisor Services2.0K sh$194KBuyMay 28Richard A WursterCEO22.0K sh$1.8MSellMay 19Charles R. SchwabChair27.5K sh$2.5MSellMay 18Charles R. SchwabChair27.5K sh$2.5MSellMay 13Arun SarinDirector2.5K sh$228KSellMay 6Charles R. SchwabChair109.3K sh$10.1M
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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

3New insider — initial holdingsJul 103
AI summary

Charles Schwab (SCHW) — Form 3 initial ownership for Tyler A. Woulfe (Managing Director, Chief Banking Officer). Woulfe holds 4,018 direct shares plus 9,666 stock options at a strike price of $95.49. Administrative — routine officer onboarding disclosure; standard equity compensation package for a managing director.

3New insider — initial holdingsJul 103
AI summary

Charles Schwab (SCHW) — Form 3 initial ownership for Neesha Hathi (Managing Director, Head of Wealth, Banking & Trust). Hathi holds 5,770 shares through a trust plus multiple stock option tranches at various strike prices. Administrative — routine MD-level onboarding disclosure; trust-held equity is common for executives at this level.

424B5Prospectus supplement (offering)Jun 26424B5
AI summary

Charles Schwab final prospectus supplement for the $1B 4.603% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2029; fixed rate through July 27, 2028, then quarterly floating; first coupon payment July 27, 2026. Confirms the SCHW note terms announced in the concurrent 8-K.

424B5Prospectus supplement (offering)Jun 25424B5
AI summary

Charles Schwab preliminary prospectus (June 25) for Fixed-to-Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2029 with all financial terms blank. Preliminary filing preceding the final $1B 4.603% issuance.

8-KCharter amendmentJun 18-K — Item 5.03: Charter amendment
AI summary

Charles Schwab filed an 8-K for Item 5.03 (amendments to articles of incorporation or bylaws) on June 1, 2026; details are not visible in the excerpt. Corporate charter or bylaw amendment details not visible in excerpt.

8-KShareholder voteMay 228-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

Charles Schwab's 2026 Annual Meeting on May 21, 2026 elected all director nominees, ratified Deloitte as auditor, and approved the advisory NEO compensation vote; a proposal to declassify the Board (requiring 80% affirmative of all outstanding shares) was NOT approved. Annual meeting with notable rejection of board declassification proposal despite management recommendation.

424B5Prospectus supplement (offering)May 20424B5
AI summary

Charles Schwab filed the final prospectus supplement for $1B of 4.744% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2030 and $1.25B of 5.493% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2037, completed on May 21, 2026 with approximately $2,236M net proceeds. Final offering document confirming the terms of the $2.25B dual-tranche Schwab debt raise.

424B5Prospectus supplement (offering)May 18424B5
AI summary

Charles Schwab filed a preliminary prospectus supplement (May 18, 2026) for Fixed-to-Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2030 and 2037 and Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2030, with all financial terms blank. Preliminary filing preceding the final $2.25B dual-tranche issuance completed May 21.

+ 21 other (3 8-Ks · 3 proxys · 2 earnings 8-Ks · 2 routine 8-Ks) in window

Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

Schwab Q2 Earnings Call Highlights Growth & AI-Led Expansionzacks.com·1d agoThe Charles Schwab Corporation $SCHW Shares Sold by Balefire LLCdefenseworld.net·1d agoCharles Schwab's Dip Doesn't Offer A Buying Opportunityseekingalpha.com·2d agoCharles Schwab Q2 Earnings Call Highlightsmarketbeat.com·2d agoThe Charles Schwab Corporation (SCHW) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcriptseekingalpha.com·2d ago

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