Is Goldman Sachs Overly Optimistic About Its Revenue Growth?
Zacks Investment Research | Sep 12, 2017 10:14PM ET
At the Barclays (LON:BARC) PLC Investors Conference in New York on Sep 12, 2017, the president of Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE:GS) , Harvey Schwartz, unveiled the company’s latest growth plan. The company aims to add $5 billion in revenues annually, which will, in turn, contribute up to $2.5 billion in pre-tax earnings.
Goldman typically keeps its plans secret, but disclosed this plan in the hope of regaining the lost confidence of its investors after two poor quarters in a row. The company witnessed a 40% year-over decline in fixed income trading in the last reported quarter, which turned its investors away.
The firm plans to boost revenues through a variety of ways. Some of these include, increasing the number of asset managers and banks they work with, by trading more in fixed income securities, commodities and currencies. These could help in adding $1 billion in revenues. Goldman also wants to grow its lending and financing portfolio and expects to add $2 billion in revenues through that. Investment banking and equity clients would add $0.5 billion each and the investment management division is expected to contribute $1 billion to the growth.
Analysts don’t seem hopeful about the company’s ability to achieve the target. While an improving industry backdrop might help it executing its plans to great extent, we don’t think it would be easy for the firm to meet the target by offsetting its underlying weakness, at least in the first year.
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