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The
San Francisco-based bank has been dealing with multiple lawsuits
and a sharp drop in account openings after it settled with
regulators in September over charges that its employees created
2 million accounts without customers' consent.
Net income applicable to shareholders fell 6.4 percent to $4.87
billion, or 96 cents per share, in the fourth quarter ended Dec.
31, from $5.20 billion, or $1.00 per share, a year earlier.
Analysts on average had expected the bank to earn $1.00 per
share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. It was not
immediately clear if the reported figures were comparable.
The bank set aside $805 million to cover potential loan losses,
down 3.1 percent from a year earlier.
The results were for the first full quarter under Chief
Executive Timothy Sloan, who took over after John Stumpf
resigned in the wake of the scandal.
Bank of America Corp, the second-largest U.S. bank, kicked off
the quarterly earnings period for big U.S. lenders earlier on
Friday, announcing a 46.8 percent rise in profit.
(Reporting by Nikhil Subba in Bengaluru and Dan Freed in New
York; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)
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