If you want to estimate its current annual level of sales, you could add up the last four quarters' worth, but that would clearly understate sales, as each quarter's numbers have been rising. In 1973, I merged with BSN, a major industrial glassmaker that had become a top dog in mineral water, beer and infant food. Today I'm a leading global food company, present in more than 130 countries and focusing on fresh dairy products, waters, early life nutrition and medical nutrition. [...] consider its strong growth and returns for shareholders over the past few decades, and its market-leading mortgage and auto lending businesses. Instead of relying heavily on areas such as trading and investment banking, Wells Fargo focuses on community banking, via loaning money (through mortgages, auto loans, credit cards, etc.) and other relatively straightforward and low-risk operations such as insurance and retail brokerage. [...] its revenue tends to be more stable than that of its peers.