JPMorgan Chase reported the largest quarterly profit in its history on July 14, 2026. The stock opened lower anyway. By the closing bell it had erased the drop and set a record at $342.89, andJPMorgan Chase reported the largest quarterly profit in its history on July 14, 2026. The stock opened lower anyway. By the closing bell it had erased the drop and set a record at $342.89, and

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JPM Price Target Hits $418. The Stock Closed at $342.89. Who's Right?

Author: Marcus O'Brien

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Sep 21, 2026Marcus O'Brien

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JPMorgan Chase reported the largest quarterly profit in its history on July 14, 2026.

The stock opened lower anyway.

By the closing bell it had erased the drop and set a record at $342.89, and analysts were already raising the JPM price target again. Here is every number that matters, where the technical levels sit, and what could still go wrong.

Key Takeaways

JPMorgan reported Q2 2026 net income of $21.2 billion and EPS of $7.70, the largest quarterly profit in the bank's history.
JPM stock closed July 14 at $342.89, up 2.50%, a record close after opening below the prior day's close.
Across the 24 analysts polled by S&P Global, the JPM stock 12-month price target runs from $305 to $418 with an average of $355.48.
Nine of the ten firms tracked here raised their JPM price target during 2026 and none cut, which says Wall Street has been following the stock rather than leading it.
The base case holds while JPM stays above its 20-day moving average at $331.77, and the bull case needs a sustained break above $345.
Net interest income rose 10% and fixed income trading rose 6%, but both landed below analyst estimates, and the beat leaned on an 86% jump in equities trading.

What Happened to JPM Stock After JPMorgan's Record Q2 2026 Earnings

The numbers were enormous.

JPMorgan booked $21.2 billion in net income and reported EPS of $7.70, the highest quarterly profit in the bank's history. Strip out a $4.6 billion gain on its Visa stake and $1.0 billion in other equity gains, and adjusted net income was $16.9 billion, or $6.14 per share, against a Street consensus near $5.56. Managed revenue climbed 27% year over year to $58.0 billion, with every line of business setting a record.

Equity Markets revenue jumped 86% to $6.0 billion. Investment banking fees rose 30% to $3.3 billion, the best showing since 2021. Return on tangible common equity was 29%, or 23% excluding the Visa and equity investment gains.

Then the stock opened at $327.00, below the previous close of $334.53.

That is the detail most coverage skipped. The release hit at 7:00 a.m. ET, two and a half hours before the opening bell, and the first reaction to a record quarter was a gap lower. Sellers pushed it to $325.75 before buyers took over, and the reversal ran all the way to $342.89.

Jamie Dimon framed the quarter with a line that is doing more work than it looks: the environment is close to as good as it gets, and nobody knows how long it lasts.

JPM Price Target: What Wall Street Analysts Forecast Right Now

Here is where the major desks stand, sorted high to low.

Firm	Analyst	JPM price target	Rating	Date
Goldman Sachs	Richard Ramsden	$411 (from $375)	Buy	Jul 14
BofA	Ebrahim Poonawala	$408 (from $362)	Buy	Jul 7
Barclays	—	$391 (unchanged)	Overweight	Jul 14
UBS	Erika Najarian	$384 (from $375)	Buy	Jul 7
Keefe Bruyette	Christopher McGratty	$370 (from $363)	Buy	Jul 9
Morgan Stanley	Betsy Graseck	$362 (from $336)	Equal-Weight	Jun 29
Evercore ISI	Glenn Schorr	$360 (from $340)	Outperform	Jul 6
Piper Sandler	Scott Schrier	$345 (from $325)	Overweight	Apr 14
Truist Securities	John McDonald	$344 (from $332)	Hold	Jun 26
Jefferies	David Chiaverini	$320 (from $310)	Hold	Apr 15

Look at the direction of travel rather than the levels.

Nine of the ten firms on that list raised their JPM stock price target during 2026 and Barclays left its alone. Not one cut. BofA moved $46 in a single revision, and Morgan Stanley moved $26.

That pattern tells you something the individual numbers do not. Analysts have spent this year catching up to a stock that already moved, which makes these targets a lagging measure of what happened rather than a forecast of what comes next. Treat them as a scoreboard, not a crystal ball.

What Is JPM Stock's 12-Month Price Target?

The reported average sat at $353.57 before the quarter landed, implying modest upside from where the stock traded then.

That figure is already stale.

Goldman's $418 and Evercore's reiterated $360 both arrived after the print, and more revisions are likely within days. Quiver Quantitative put the median at $360 across eight analysts over the past six months, which is a different sample and a different answer.

Why the JPM Analyst Price Target Range Spans $106

The spread runs from $320 to $418.

That gap is close to 30% of the share price, which is not a consensus by any reasonable definition. Part of it is timing, since Jefferies and Piper Sandler last updated in April and the market has moved a long way since. Part of it is method, because a Hold at $320 and a Buy at $418 are answering different questions about how much credit a record trading quarter deserves.

Different aggregators also report different averages depending on how many analysts they poll and how far back they look. Any single "consensus" number you see for JPM is one methodology's answer, not a settled fact.

JPMorgan Stock Price Prediction: Bear, Base, and Bull Scenarios for 2026

Nobody can tell you where JPM closes in December.

What we can do is name the levels that would have to break for each outcome, and tie them to prices the market actually respected.

Scenario	Range	What has to happen
Bear	$295–$324	Loses the 20-day MA at $331.77, then the 30-day at $323.68, the level that held on earnings day
Base	$332–$360	Holds above $331.77 and grinds through the cluster of targets between $344 and $360
Bull	$345–$418	Sustained break above $345, clearing the $344.73 record, then $370 and the $418 Street high

The bull trigger is $345 rather than $344.73 for a reason.

A round number sitting just above the all-time high does two jobs at once. Clearing it confirms the breakout and takes out the psychological level in the same move, and the visible ask on July 14 was already stacked at $344.00.

The Technical Levels Behind the JPM Stock Price Forecast

The most useful chart evidence came from earnings day itself.

JPM's 30-day moving average sat at $323.677. The session low was $325.75. Sellers got within two dollars of that average, could not push through it, and the stock closed near its high of the day.

That is not a level drawn after the fact to fit a story. It held in real time, under maximum pressure, on volume of 14.53 million shares against a recent daily average near 11 million.

The 20-day average at $331.77 is the line that matters now. Above it, the base case stays intact. Below it, $323.68 is the next real test, and $305 is where the most cautious of the 24 analysts polled by S&P Global has anchored.

Why the JPMorgan Bitcoin Price Target Matters to JPM Shareholders

Here is something odd about this particular ticker.

JPMorgan is a stock you can hold and also the bank publishing some of the loudest institutional calls on Bitcoin. In a February 2026 note, its research desk, led by managing director Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, put a long-term Bitcoin price target of $266,000 on the table, derived from a volatility-adjusted comparison against the roughly $8 trillion of private-sector gold investment. The same team called that level unrealistic in the near term and framed it as a benchmark rather than a forecast, having floated roughly $170,000 on a six to twelve month view back in November 2025.

The bank has also pointed to Bitcoin's production cost as a soft floor, and it runs a blockchain platform called Kinexys.

None of this shows up as a separate revenue line yet.

That is the point worth watching. JPMorgan has not broken out digital asset revenue, and the day it does is the day this stops being a research-desk story and starts being an earnings story.

What Could Break the JPM Bull Case

Three things, and the first is buried in the earnings release.

Net interest income and fixed income trading both landed below what analysts had modeled, even though each grew year over year. The headline beat was enormous, but the gap was filled by an equities trading quarter that rose 86%. Trading revenue at record levels is a cycle, not a floor. Trading revenue at record levels is a cycle, not a floor.

The $4.6 billion Visa gain will not repeat.

Then there is capital. On the Q1 2026 earnings call, CFO Jeremy Barnum said the firm needs to plan for a G-SIB surcharge of 5.2% in 2028, up from 4.5%, which management estimated at roughly $20 billion of additional required capital. Dimon put the firm's excess capital at around $40 billion on the same call, so the constraint bites into the cushion rather than erasing it. The board has authorized a $50 billion buyback and stated an intention to raise the quarterly dividend to $1.65 from $1.50 in the third quarter.

That constraint is one reason cited for the stock trading up only around 4% year to date heading into this print, despite a run of earnings beats.

And Dimon said it himself. Close to as good as it gets is not a phrase a CEO uses when he thinks the run has room.

MEXC Analysis: What the Earnings Session Revealed About JPM Stock

When MEXC Research weighs a price scenario, verifiable first-party data and company filings carry more weight than aggregated sell-side targets or retail sentiment. That order does not change from one article to the next, whatever the conclusion happens to be.

Applied to JPM, the first-party record corrects the public one.

MEXC platform data shows the daily candle closing at $342.89, up 2.50%, a change of $8.36 on the prior close of $334.53. Intraday coverage published while the session was still running quoted smaller gains, which is what a live quote does. The closing print is the one that goes in the record.

The more useful observation is about timing. JPMorgan released results at 7:00 a.m. ET, and the stock's entire re-rating from a gap-down open to a record close happened around the edges of the regular session. Anyone watching only the 9:30 to 4:00 window saw a clean green candle. The traders who saw the actual sequence were watching before the bell.

On the honest read of the signals right now: they conflict.

Record earnings, a $50 billion buyback and a planned dividend increase all point one way. Two core business lines missing, a one-off Visa gain flattering the headline, a tightening capital requirement and a CEO signalling a cycle peak point the other. In that kind of divergence the bear, base and bull cases deserve to be treated as roughly comparable rather than one clearly winning, and there is not yet enough evidence for any single scenario to dominate.

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JPM Price Target FAQ

What is the JPM price target?

Across the 24 analysts polled by S&P Global as of July 14, 2026, JPM price targets run from $305 to $418, with an average of $355.48.

What is JPM stock's 12-month price target?

The most recent published averages cluster between $353 and $360 depending on which analysts are counted.

What is the JPMorgan stock price prediction for 2026?

The scenarios above put the bear case at $305 to $324, the base case at $332 to $360, and the bull case at $345 to $418.

Did JPMorgan beat Q2 2026 earnings expectations?

Yes, adjusted EPS of $6.14 beat the Street consensus near $5.56, though net interest income and fixed income trading both missed.

Is JPM stock at an all-time high?

JPM set a record close of $342.89 and an intraday high of $344.73 on July 14, 2026.

What is JPMorgan's Bitcoin price target?

JPMorgan's research desk published a long-term Bitcoin benchmark of $266,000 in February 2026, which the analysts themselves called unrealistic in the near term.

Conclusion

The record quarter is real, and so is the gap between the most and least optimistic analyst on Wall Street.

What the July 14 session actually showed is that a blowout print moved JPM from a $325.75 low to a $342.89 close, worth $8.36 on the day, which is a thin reward for the best quarter in the bank's history. Watch $331.77 on the way down and $345 on the way up, and track it live on MEXC.

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