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US Bancorp

USB on NYSE. U.S. Bancorp sells banking and financial services to people and businesses. Market value $89.2bn.

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Price checks use the past 12 months to June 2026. Some use the latest annual report instead, as marked. Quality checks use five annual reports, the latest for the year to December 2025.

Cash flow or capital spending isn't reported, so free cash flow is unknown.

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Return on equity
five annual reports to December 2025
11.1%five-year median

Yearly profit per dollar of owners' money: 11 cents. Above 10 is good.

Price to book
quarterly report to June 2026
1.3×

What you pay for each dollar of net assets: $1.32.

Earnings yield
past 12 months to June 2026
9.2%

Profit per $100 you pay: $9.15.

Quality score: 77 of 100. Price score: 91 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.

$57.27 a share, 27% above its 1-year low

Over the past year the price has ranged from $45.02 to $66.08.

Expected to report results Thursday 15 Oct, before the market opens.

Dividend: 3.6% a year

Paid every year for at least 5 years

Prices from Monday’s close (5 October).

Five years of cash, in billions

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20212022202320242025
Revenue
n/a$24.3bn$28.1bn$27.5bn$28.7bn
Operating margin
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Debt to equity
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Shares outstanding
1.49bn1.56bn1.56bn1.55bn1.56bn

Health checks

  • Free cash flow positiveDoesn't apply to banks and insurers
  • Accounting checksDoesn't apply to banks and insurers
  • DebtDoesn't apply to banks and insurers
  • Revenue growth, five yearsSlow, 5.6% a year
  • Buying back its own sharesRoughly flat

The quarter to June 2026

How the business did, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.

  • Sales: $7.7 billion last quarter, up 10% on a year ago.
  • Profit: $2.2 billion, up 20% on a year ago.
  • About the same number of shares as a year ago.
  • Sales grew on a year ago in each of the last 4 quarters.
Sales by quarter
Sales by quarter
Quarter toAmount
September 2024$6.9bn
December 2024$7.0bn
March 2025$7.0bn
June 2025$7.0bn
September 2025$7.3bn
December 2025$7.4bn
March 2026$7.3bn
June 2026$7.7bn
Profit by quarter
Profit by quarter
Quarter toAmount
September 2024$1.7bn
December 2024$1.7bn
March 2025$1.7bn
June 2025$1.8bn
September 2025$2.0bn
December 2025$2.0bn
March 2026$1.9bn
June 2026$2.2bn

From the company's quarterly reports to the SEC.

Dates

Next results (estimated)
15 October 2026
Last annual report (10-K)
23 February 2026
Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
5 November 2026

Who owns it

20 long-term investors we follow own it, unchanged from 20 last quarter. 2,059 funds in all.

Jun '25
Dec '25
Jun '26

Sold out this quarter

Largest holders overall

From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.

Big holders and activists

1 investor owns more than 5%.

From Schedule 13D and 13G filings: anyone owning more than 5% must file one.

What insiders did

No insider bought shares on the open market in the last 12 months. 8 sold $20m.

  • Kedia Gunjan
    President & CEO, Director
    Sold
    Date
    28 August 2026
    Shares
    27,267
    Price
    $62.37
    Value
    $2m
  • CHOSY JAMES L
    Senior EVP and General Counsel
    Sold
    Date
    23 July 2026
    Shares
    22,968
    Price
    $63.28
    Value
    $1m
  • Philipson Stephen L
    Vice Chair
    Sold
    Date
    20 July 2026
    Shares
    36,906
    Price
    $63.08
    Value
    $2m
  • Dilip Venkatachari
    SEVP & Chief Info & Tech Off
    Sold
    Date
    5 May 2026
    Shares
    34,522
    Price
    $55.52
    Value
    $2m
  • Richard Jodi L
    Vice Chair
    Sold
    Date
    21 April 2026
    Shares
    40,000
    Price
    $57.00
    Value
    $2m
  • Runkel Mark G.
    Vice Chair
    Sold
    Date
    6 February 2026
    Shares
    32,195
    Price
    $60.65
    Value
    $2m
  • Barcelos Elcio R.T.
    Senior EVP, Chief HR Officer
    Sold
    Date
    3 February 2026
    Shares
    17,204
    Price
    $58.43
    Value
    $1m
  • CHOSY JAMES L
    Senior EVP and General Counsel
    Sold
    Date
    20 October 2025
    Shares
    26,909
    Price
    $46.86
    Value
    $1m
  • CECERE ANDREW
    Director
    Sold
    Date
    20 October 2025
    Shares
    140,445
    Price
    $46.35
    Value
    $7m

From Form 4 filings: insiders must report trades in their own company's shares within two days.

Warning signs in its filings

Problems the company itself reported to the SEC, in its own words.

We couldn’t fully check US Bancorp’s latest annual report.

We look for five warning signs: doubt it can keep going, weak checks on its own accounts, a notice that its past accounts can't be relied on, a change of auditor, and one customer bringing in a big share of sales. We don't check lawsuits, investigations or debt yet.

We couldn't fully read the 10-K filed 23 Feb 2026, so we can't say there are no warning signs.

A 10-K is the yearly report every US company files with the SEC. An 8-K is a short notice of a big event.

What could go wrong

Cheap for a reason is the question the numbers cannot answer.

Whether the price already reflects the risks is what the deep dive is for.

The deep dive

Everything above is arithmetic on public filings. The deep dive reads the last ten years of annual reports, the proxy statements, and the earnings calls, then argues the case the way Buffett, Klarman, and Hohn would, and checks every claim against the source.

  • What the business is worth, as a range, and the margin of safety at today’s price
  • Prices to start buying, buy, and buy hard
  • The three things that would make this a mistake
  • Every number footnoted to the filing it came from
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