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Ameriprise's earnings mix has shifted toward wealth management, a stickier, more margin-resilient business less exposed to passive fee compression than asset management. Advisory & Wealth Management grew from a third of earnings to 65%, as pretax adjusted operating earnings more than doubled from $2.4bn to $5.3bn over a decade. Yet Ameriprise trades at 10.1x earnings, a 19% discount to peers running similar playbooks with shakier fundamentals. x.comÂ
The market prices Ameriprise as if its risk were rising when it is actually falling, as the higher-margin, stickier wealth management unit now drives 65% of earnings and keeps expanding. The stock trades at 10.1x 2026 consensus EPS of $44.17, a 16% discount to its five-year average of 12.0x. That is hard to explain given 17.2% annual EPS growth over three years, buybacks of roughly 5% of the float a year, and a 20% jump in wealth management profits in Q1 2026. x.comÂ
