david m solomon chairman and ceo of goldman sachs speaks during the milken institutes 22nd annual global conference in beverly hills april 29 2019 goldman sachs is scheduled to report firstquarter earnings before the opening bell thursday   earnings 889 per share 52 lower than a year earlier according to refinitiv goldman sachs has been one of the big beneficiaries of a torrid two years of wall street deals activity putting up record revenue figures and blowing past performance targets but how will the bank navigate trickier markets thats what analysts are eager to learn after mergers ipos and debt issuance slowed down in the first quarter goldman sachs is the worlds biggest mergers advisor by revenue and is the most wall streetdependent firm among the six biggest us banks one of ceo david solomons biggest priorities has been to diversify the firms revenue streams boosting consumer banking wealth and asset management operations analysts will be keen to ask solomon how the deals pipeline looks for the remainder of 2022 and if mergers and ipos are being killed or merely pushed back into future quarters another area of concern for the bank is trading where spikes in volatility and market dislocations caused by the ukraine war may have benefited some traders while leaving others holding losses it remains to be seen whether the quarters tumult led to the type of volatility that encouraged clients to trade or it left them on the sidelines in february solomon increased the banks guidance for returns and targets in wealth and asset management divisions after handily exceeding goals set in early 2020 goldman shares have fallen 158 this year through thursday compared with the 105 decline of the kbw bank index on wednesday jpmorgan chase said firstquarter profit slumped 42 as it posted losses tied to russia sanctions and set aside money for future loan losses this story is developing please check back for updates