E*TRADE
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| Public company | |
| Traded as |
NASDAQ: ETFC S&P 500 Component |
| Industry | Financial Services |
| Founded | Palo Alto, California (1982) |
| Headquarters | Time-Life Building, New York City, United States |
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Key people
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Rodger Lawson (Executive Chairman) Karl Roessner (CEO) |
| Services | brokerage firm |
| Revenue |  US$1.428 billion (2015) |
| US$268 million (2015) |
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| Total assets |  US$47.94 billion (2016) |
| Total equity | US$5.799 billion (2015) |
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Number of employees
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3,421 (2015) |
| Website | www |
E-Trade Financial Corporation (stylized as E*TRADE) is a financial services company headquartered in New York City, United States. It is an online discount brokerage firm for self-directed investors. Investors can buy and sell such securities as stocks, bonds, options, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds via electronic trading platforms or by phone. E-Trade Financial also provides banking services to retail investors, such as sweep deposits and savings products.
E-Trade Financial operates directly and through numerous subsidiaries. The most significant of its subsidiaries are E-Trade Bank, E-Trade Securities LLC, and E-Trade Clearing LLC.
As of December 31, 2015, the company had 3,213,541 brokerage accounts and a total margin receivables balance of $7.4 billion.
In 2015, the company processed 155,470 daily average revenue trades.
In 2015, 76% of net revenue was from interest income and 24% of net revenue was from fees and commissions.
The company has 30 branches.
The company's primary offices are in Alpharetta, Georgia; Jersey City, New Jersey; Arlington, Virginia; Sandy, Utah; Menlo Park, California; and New York City.
In 1982, William A. Porter and Bernard A. Newcomb founded TradePlus in Palo Alto, California with $15,000 in capital. In 1991 Porter and Newcomb founded a new company, E-Trade Securities, Inc., with several hundred thousand dollars of startup capital from TradePlus. E*Trade offered its trading services via America Online and Compuserve. In 1994 its revenues neared $11 million, up from $850,000 in 1992.
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