FirstEnergy FE Q2 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

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Tue, April 28, 2026 astatine 12:00 PM CDT 34 min read

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Date

Thursday, July 31, 2025 astatine 9 a.m. ET

Call participants

• President and CEO — Brian X. Tierney

• Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer — K. Jon Taylor

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Full Conference Call Transcript

Brian X. Tierney: Thank you, Karen. Before we get started, I would similar to explicit my condolences to those who are impacted by the tragic events earlier this week successful New York City. On behalf of the FirstEnergy family, delight judge our thoughts, prayers and emotion arsenic you respire the nonaccomplishment and observe the lives of your loved ones. This morning, I'll supply an update connected our 2nd 4th and year-to-date show and cardinal developments that we judge are transforming FirstEnergy into a premier electrical company. GAAP net for the 2nd 4th were $0.46 per stock compared to $0.08 successful the 2nd 4th of 2024.

Core net were $0.52 per stock for the 4th compared to $0.51 successful the 2nd 4th of past year. We are connected way to present results successful the precocious fractional of our afloat twelvemonth 2025 guidance scope of $2.40 to $2.60 per share. Second 4th halfway net benefited from the beardown execution of our concern strategy, reflecting caller basal rates successful Pennsylvania that went into effect successful January. Quarterly results besides bespeak accrued investments successful our transmission system, which payment from formula-based rates. Our squad continues to show beardown fiscal subject connected operating expenses. Jon volition talk much astir this successful a moment. Through the archetypal 6 months of 2025, we invested $2.5 cardinal successful our infrastructure done Energize 365.

We are connected gait to deploy $5 cardinal successful superior this year, and we person assurance successful our $28 cardinal superior concern program done 2029 to amended strategy resiliency and reliability and to enactment the level of work customers expect. Providing reliable work is astatine the bosom of our mission. This summer, terrible upwind strained the strategy successful respective of our locations. We are committed to resolving these issues rapidly and to making the semipermanent investments to forestall outages earlier they happen. Our concern program supports the customers and communities we are privileged to service and drives semipermanent worth for our shareholders. Turning to Slide 6.

At the caller Energy and Innovation Summit successful Pittsburgh hosted by Senator McCormick, I had the accidental to code a distinguished radical of authorities and concern leaders astir our important investments successful and committedness to Pennsylvania. A larger, resilient and reliable electrical grid is indispensable to each of the vigor and exertion investments announced astatine the summit. We are arrogant to beryllium the largest electrical inferior successful the state, which has a constructive regulatory situation to enactment concern and economical growth. Between our organisation operations and the Pennsylvania information of our stand-alone transmission business, the Commonwealth represents astir 35% of our full complaint basal and earnings. And FirstEnergy Pennsylvania is our largest inferior subsidiary.