E*TRADE Financial Corporation Reports Monthly Activity for January 2017

NEW YORK--()--E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ:ETFC) today released its Monthly Activity Report for January 2017.

Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs) for January were 201,464, an eight percent increase from December and a 15 percent increase from the year-ago period. Derivatives represented 29 percent of DARTs during the month. The Company added 42,055 gross new brokerage accounts in January and ended the month with approximately 3.5 million brokerage accounts—an increase of 10,239 from December.

Net new brokerage assets were $0.8 billion in the month. During the month, customer security holdings increased by $7.0 billion, and brokerage-related cash increased by $0.4 billion to $51.8 billion. Customer margin balances increased $0.1 billion, ending the month at $7.2 billion. Customers were net buyers of approximately $0.3 billion in securities during the month.

Monthly Activity Data

 
  Jan-17   Dec-16   Jan-16   % Chg. M/M   % Chg. Y/Y
Trading days 20.0 21.0 19.0 N.M. N.M.
 
DARTs 201,464 186,196 175,346 8 % 15 %
Derivatives DARTs % 29 % 29 % 25 % % 4 %
 
Gross new brokerage accounts 42,055 33,250 29,666 26 % 42 %
Gross new stock plan accounts 20,004 21,447 25,145 (7 )% (20 )%
Gross new banking accounts 281   272   377   3 % (25 )%
Total gross new accounts 62,340 54,969 55,188 13 % 13 %
 
Net new brokerage accounts 10,239 5,520 4,815 N.M. N.M.
Net new stock plan accounts 5,698 1,352 11,395 N.M. N.M.
Net new banking accounts (1,309 ) (1,141 ) (1,580 ) N.M. N.M.
Net new accounts 14,628 5,731 14,630 N.M. N.M.
 
End of period brokerage accounts 3,473,242 3,463,003 3,218,356 % 8 %
End of period stock plan accounts 1,461,758 1,456,060 1,419,548 % 3 %
End of period banking accounts 315,364   316,673   338,308   % (7 )%
End of period total accounts 5,250,364 5,235,736 4,976,212 % 6 %
 
Customer margin balances ($B)(1) 7.2 7.1 6.7 1 % 7 %
 

Customer Assets ($B)

Security holdings $ 231.4 $ 224.4 $ 190.4 3 % 22 %
Sweep deposits 29.1 26.4 23.8 10 % 22 %
Customer cash held by third parties(2) 14.4 16.8 11.0 (14 )% 31 %
Customer payables (cash) 8.3   8.2   6.2   1 % 34 %
Brokerage customer assets 283.2   275.8   231.4   3 % 22 %
Unexercised stock plan holdings (vested) 31.7 30.2 29.2 5 % 9 %
Savings, checking and other banking assets 5.2   5.3   5.3   (2 )% (2 )%
Total customer assets $ 320.1   $ 311.3   $ 265.9   3 % 20 %
 
Net new brokerage assets(3) $ 0.8 $ 1.4 $ 1.0 N.M. N.M.
Net new banking assets(3) (0.1 ) 0.1   (0.1 ) N.M. N.M.
Net new customer assets(3) $ 0.7 $ 1.5 $ 0.9 N.M. N.M.
 
Brokerage related cash $ 51.8 $ 51.4 $ 41.0 1 % 26 %
Other cash and deposits 5.2   5.3   5.3   (2 )% (2 )%
Total customer cash and deposits $ 57.0 $ 56.7 $ 46.3 1 % 23 %
 
Managed products $ 4.0 $ 3.9 $ 3.1 3 % 29 %
Customer net (buy) / sell activity $ (0.3 ) $ 0.4 $ (1.2 ) N.M. N.M.
 

(1) Customer margin balances include margin receivables held on the balance sheet and customer margin balances held by a third party.
(2) Customer cash held by third parties are held outside E*TRADE Financial and include money market funds and sweep deposit accounts at unaffiliated financial institutions and customer cash held at a third party clearing firm. Customer cash held by third parties are not reflected in the Company's consolidated balance sheet and are not immediately available for liquidity purposes.
(3) 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 banking assets and net new brokerage 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 banking products and services to retail customers. 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.

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Contacts

E*TRADE Media Relations
646-521-4418
mediainq@etrade.com
or
E*TRADE Investor Relations
646-521-4406
ir@etrade.com