Charles Schwab (SCHW)

• Market cap: $179B
• 1 day: -0.75%
• 5 days: -0.96%
• 1 month: 8.48%
• 3 months: 5.32%
• 6 months: 10.2%
• Year to date: 36.17%
• 1 year: 36.01%
• 5 years: 91.85%
• 10 years: 202.41%
• Sector: Financials
• Industry: Capital Markets

About: Charles Schwab is one of the largest retail-oriented financial-services companies in the US, with $11.6 trillion in client assets across its brokerage, banking, asset management, custody, financial advisory, and wealth-management businesses at the end of the third quarter. While best known for its retail brokerage offering, Schwab generates the lion's share of its revenue and profits through its Charles Schwab Bank and asset management segments. The firm is a dominant player in registered investment advisor custody, with over 40% market share, and has recently pushed into wealth management with robo-advisory, direct indexing, and other managed-investment solutions.

Employees: 32,700