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Company snapshot — U.S. Bancorp

USB in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
U.S. Bancorp is a financial services holding company that serves individuals, businesses, institutions and governments across the United States. It runs through segments covering wealth and institutional banking, consumer and business banking, payment services, and treasury support, offering deposits, lending, card processing, asset management and trust services. It was founded in 1863 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Where it sits in the stack
U.S. Bancorp carries no seat in Rubin or Halo, our indices for the AI build-out; it sits outside the layers and sleeves the diary maps for that theme. Within our wider universe it belongs to the regional banking sector, a conventional lender rather than an infrastructure supplier to the build-out.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group does not name a comparison set for this company. The market usually places it alongside other large regional lenders such as Wells Fargo, PNC and Truist.
Why Closelook tracks it
It holds a seat in the S&P 500 and does not carry a Closelook score. The diary's single mention of the ticker comes from a dossier that borrows the letters as shorthand for a USB-C adapter analogy, not as coverage of the bank itself.
What the diary watches
The diary watches for any substantive mention of the bank's own results or standing, since the one quote on file references the ticker rather than the company.

U.S. Bancorp (USB) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for USB, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Banks - Regional · United States · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Banks - Regional · United States

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against USB on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 3.46%, quarterly · last 0.52 USD on 2026-06-30

Dividends and capital return

What USB pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 2.08 USD per share · a 3.46% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +4.0% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 2.00 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.52 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-06-30
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.97 USD (partial) · 2024: 1.98 USD · 2025: 2.04 USD · 2026: 1.04 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-09-28

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is U.S. Bancorp (USB)?

U.S. Bancorp trades as USB on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is USB in a Closelook index?

Not currently — U.S. Bancorp is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

Where does USB trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -4.7% vs the 50-day and +5.3% vs the 200-day average, 9.1% below the 52-week high and +36.1% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does U.S. Bancorp do?

U.S. Bancorp is a financial services holding company that serves individuals, businesses, institutions and governments across the United States. It runs through segments covering wealth and institutional banking, consumer and business banking, payment services, and treasury support, offering deposits, lending, card processing, asset management and trust services. Closelook's peer group does not name a comparison set for this company. The market usually places it alongside other large regional lenders such as Wells Fargo, PNC and Truist.

Where does U.S. Bancorp sit in the AI build-out?

U.S. Bancorp carries no seat in Rubin or Halo, our indices for the AI build-out; it sits outside the layers and sleeves the diary maps for that theme. Within our wider universe it belongs to the regional banking sector, a conventional lender rather than an infrastructure supplier to the build-out. It holds a seat in the S&P 500 and does not carry a Closelook score. The diary's single mention of the ticker comes from a dossier that borrows the letters as shorthand for a USB-C adapter analogy, not as coverage of the bank itself.

Does U.S. Bancorp pay a dividend?

U.S. Bancorp has paid 2.08 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 3.46% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.52 USD on 2026-06-30. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelook written about U.S. Bancorp?

U.S. Bancorp appears in 1 Closelook piece, most recently Dossier: Agentic Infrastructure Software: The Orchestration Layer (2026-02-24). What Closelook said most recently: MCP is the "USB-C of AI" — a universal adapter that standardizes how agents read and write to ERP, CRM, SQL, Slack, and every other enterprise system without custom code for each tool. (Dossier, 2026-02-24). The "Mentioned on Closelook" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for USB, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelook 1 piece · newest: Dossier, “Agentic Infrastructure Software: The Orchestration Layer” (2026-02-24)

Mentioned on Closelook

Where USB appears in the diary — 1 piece, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

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Related in the Closelook universe

then Banks - Regional. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.