Wells Fargo
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American multinational banking and financial services company
OverviewAI-generated
Wells Fargo is a company and funder established in 1852. It is active and located in San Francisco, United States. The legal name of the entity is WELLS FARGO & COMPANY. It operates under the jurisdiction of US-DE.
The organization is recognized in the Sp 500 collection. It employs 150500 people.
Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, ROR, GLEIF, Vinony collections. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Company type
- Public
- Traded as
- NYSE : WFC S&P 100 component S&P 500 component
- Isin
- US9497461015
- Industry
- Financial services
- Predecessors
- Norwest Corporation Wells Fargo (1852–1998)
- Founded
- January 24, 1929 (97 years ago) ( 1929-01-24 ) in Minneapolis, Minnesota , U.S. (as Northwest Bancorporation), April 1983 (as Norwest Corporation ), November 2, 1998 (as Wells Fargo & Company)
- Founders
- Henry Wells William Fargo (Wells Fargo Bank)
- Headquarters
- San Francisco , California, U.S. (corporate) , 30 Hudson Yards , New York City , U.S. (executive)
- Number of locations
- 4,090 branches (2025) 11,000 ATMs (2025)
- Area served
- Worldwide
- Key people
- Steven Black ( chairman ) Charles Scharf ( president and CEO )
- Products
- Asset management Banking Commodities Credit cards Equities trading Insurance Investment management Mortgage loans Private equity Wealth management
- Revenue
- US$83.7 billion (2025)
- Operating income
- US$25.2 billion (2025)
- Net income
- US$21.3 billion (2025)
- Total assets
- US$1.99 trillion (2025)
- Total equity
- US$183 billion (2025)
- Number of employees
- 205,000 (2025)
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company, Funder
- Founded
- 1852
- Location
- San Francisco, United States
- Status
- Active
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- public company
- Part of
- S&P 100
- Official name
- Wells Fargo & Company
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- William Fargo
- Headquarters
- San Francisco
- Owned by
- The Vanguard Group
- Employees
- 150500
- Revenue
- 82296000000
- Stock exchange
- New York Stock Exchange
- Legal form
- Delaware corporation
- Official website
- homeloans.wellsfargo.com
- Image
- Wellsfargohq.jpg
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- Commons category
- Wells Fargo
- inception
- 1852-00-00
- topic's main category
- Category:Wells Fargo
- location of formation
- San Francisco
- product or material produced
- insurance contract
- director / manager
- Charlie Scharf
- assets under management
- 802000000000
- native label
- Wells Fargo
- social media followers
- 346894
- contact page URL
- www.wellsfargo.com/help/contact-us
- net profit
- 19722000000
- operating income
- 23364000000
- market capitalization
- 243673000000
Sources (15)
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Encyclopedic overview
Map of Wells Fargo branches in August 2015 Wells Fargo branch in Berkeley, California A former Wachovia branch converted to Wells Fargo in the fall of 2011 in Durham, North Carolina American Express Co. early receipts (1853, 1869) Stagecoach with Christmas gifts at a Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco Wells Fargo & Co. Express building circa 1860, Stockton, California Mud wagon — Wells Fargo U.S. Mail service Wells Fargo & Co. $2 stamp and 10 cents stamped envelope with Pony Express cancellation, carried from San Francisco to New York City in 12 days, during June 1861 Wells Fargo Advisors headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri 550 South Tryon in Charlotte, North Carolina home of Wells Fargo Securities
Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational financial services company. The company operates in 35 countries and serves more than 70 million customers worldwide. It is a systemically important financial institution according to the Financial Stability Board, and is considered one of the "Big Four Banks" in the United States, alongside JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Citigroup.
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