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E*TRADE Financial Corporation Reports Monthly Activity for January 2015

E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ:ETFC) today released its Monthly Activity Report for January 2015.

Daily Average Revenue Trades (“DARTs”) for January were 172,944, a five percent increase from December and a 12 percent decrease from the year-ago period. The Company added 30,990 gross new brokerage accounts in January, ending the month with approximately 3.2 million brokerage accounts — an increase of 7,034 from December.

Net new brokerage assets were $0.6 billion in the month. During the month, customer security holdings decreased by 0.4 percent, or $0.9 billion, and brokerage-related cash decreased by $1.1 billion to $40.0 billion. Bank-related cash and deposits decreased by $0.1 billion, ending the month at $5.7 billion. Customers were net buyers of approximately $2.0 billion in securities during the month.

                   

Monthly Activity Data

 
Jan-15 Dec-14 Jan-14 % Chg. M/M % Chg. Y/Y
 
 
Trading days 20.0 21.5 21.0 N.M. N.M.
 
DARTs 172,944 165,229 195,652 4.7 % (11.6)%
 
Gross new brokerage accounts 30,990 34,965 41,367 (11.4)% (25.1)%
Gross new stock plan accounts 28,201 23,802 20,776 18.5 % 35.7 %
Gross new banking accounts   344   435   898 (20.9)% (61.7)%
Total gross new accounts 59,535 59,202 63,041 0.6 % (5.6)%
 
Net new brokerage accounts 7,034 6,774 18,858 N.M. N.M.
Net new stock plan accounts 9,772 (3,940) 4,899 N.M. N.M.
Net new banking accounts   (1,563)   (6,137)   (3,637) N.M. N.M.
Net new accounts 15,243 (3,303) 20,120 N.M. N.M.
 
End of period brokerage accounts 3,150,957 3,143,923 3,016,917 0.2 % 4.4 %
End of period stock plan accounts 1,273,556 1,263,784 1,224,472 0.8 % 4.0 %
End of period banking accounts   360,481   362,044   392,501 (0.4)% (8.2)%
End of period total accounts 4,784,994 4,769,751 4,633,890 0.3 % 3.3 %
 

Customer Assets ($B)

Security holdings $ 203.8 $ 204.7 $ 176.4 (0.4)% 15.5 %
Customer payables (cash) 6.1 6.5 6.1 (6.2)% 0.0 %
Customer assets held by third parties(1) 15.2 15.5 13.6 (1.9)% 11.8 %
Unexercised stock plan customer holdings (vested)   37.2   38.7   36.4 (3.9)% 2.2 %
Customer assets in brokerage and stock plan accounts   262.3   265.4   232.5 (1.2)% 12.8 %
Sweep deposits 18.7 19.1 19.2 (2.1)% (2.6)%
Savings, transaction and other   5.7   5.8   6.3 (1.7)% (9.5)%
Customer assets in banking accounts   24.4   24.9   25.5 (2.0)% (4.3)%
Total customer assets $ 286.7 $ 290.3 $ 258.0 (1.2)% 11.1 %
 
Net new brokerage assets ($B)(2) $ 0.6 $ 1.7 $ 1.0 N.M. N.M.
Net new banking assets ($B)(2)   (0.1)   0.0   (0.1) N.M. N.M.
Net new customer assets ($B)(2) $ 0.5 $ 1.7 $ 0.9 N.M. N.M.
 
Brokerage related cash ($B) $ 40.0 $ 41.1 $ 38.9 (2.7)% 2.8 %
Other customer cash and deposits ($B)   5.7   5.8   6.3 (1.7)% (9.5)%
Total customer cash and deposits ($B) $ 45.7 $ 46.9 $ 45.2 (2.6)% 1.1 %
 
Customer net (buy) / sell activity ($B) $ (2.0) $ (0.5) $ (2.3) N.M. N.M.
 
(1) Customer assets held by third parties are held outside E*TRADE Financial and include money market funds and sweep deposit accounts at unaffiliated financial institutions.
(2) Net new customer assets are total inflows to all new and existing customer accounts less total outflows from all closed and existing customer accounts. The net new brokerage assets and net new banking assets metrics treat asset flows between E*TRADE entities in the same manner as unrelated third party accounts.
 

Historical metrics and financials can be found on E*TRADE Financial’s corporate website at https://about.etrade.com.

About E*TRADE Financial

E*TRADE Financial and its subsidiaries provide financial services including online brokerage and related banking products and services to retail investors. Specific business segments include Trading and Investing and Balance Sheet Management. Securities products and services are offered by E*TRADE Securities LLC (Member FINRA/SIPC). Bank products and services are offered by E*TRADE Bank, a Federal savings bank, Member FDIC, or its subsidiaries. More information is available at www.etrade.com.

Important Notices

E*TRADE Financial, E*TRADE and the E*TRADE logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of E*TRADE Financial Corporation. ETFC-G

© 2015 E*TRADE Financial Corporation. All rights reserved.

E*TRADE Media Relations
Thayer Fox, 646-521-4418
thayer.fox@etrade.com
or
E*TRADE Investor Relations
Brett Goodman, 646-521-4406
brett.goodman@etrade.com



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