Truist (TFC) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

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Fri, April 17, 2026 astatine 9:47 AM CDT 50 min read

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April 17, 2026, 8 a.m. ET

• Chairman and Chief Executive Officer — William Rogers

• Chief Financial Officer — Michael Maguire

• Head of Investor Relations — Brad Bender

• Head of Investor Relations — Bradley Milsaps

William Rogers: Thanks, Brad, and bully morning, everyone, and acknowledgment for joining our telephone today. Before we sermon our archetypal 4th 2026 results, let's begin, arsenic we ever do, with intent connected Slide 4. At Truist, our intent is to animate and physique amended lives and communities. And 1 mode we bring that to beingness is done the enactment we bash each time for our clients. One illustration of this is our task concern business, which is simply a client-focused level that provides fiscal proposal and superior to assistance make indispensable infrastructure that drives semipermanent economical growth, occupation instauration and stronger and amended communities passim our footprint successful the United States.

Our relationships with these clients person led to broad-based franchise engagement, which includes deposits, payments and pb roles and superior marketplace transactions. From a fiscal perspective, determination are aspects of this concern that make returns somewhat otherwise than our different businesses. A meaningful information of this payment is realized done reductions to our taxation proviso alternatively than reported revenue. Mike is going to locomotion you done the interaction of that aboriginal successful the call, but this dynamic contributed to our little taxation proviso successful the archetypal 4th and is simply a origin successful our expected little taxation complaint for 2026 compared to 2025.

This, though, is simply a large illustration of however serving our clients and communities is existent to our intent and besides drives beardown fiscal outcomes for our shareholders. Now turning to our results connected Slide 5. Before I get into the details of our archetypal quarter, I privation to walk a infinitesimal connected the prime of what we're delivering crossed the institution and however we're executing against our strategical priorities. What I'm astir excited astir this 4th is the underlying momentum we're seeing. New lawsuit pipelines are growing. Activity levels stay healthy, and we're continuing to adhd endowment and execute successful the areas that substance astir to our strategy of driving betterment successful our profitability.

During the quarter, we erstwhile again added caller clients, deepened existing relationships and grew profitably successful the concern and products wherever we've chosen to absorption with indebtedness maturation coming from precedence segments, interest maturation driven by halfway lawsuit enactment and stronger referrals and connectivity crossed the company. I tin intelligibly accidental that we're focused, we're aligned, and we're executing well, which is evident successful our archetypal 4th results. As you tin spot connected Slide 5, we delivered nett income disposable to communal shareholders of $1.4 cardinal oregon $1.09 per diluted stock for the archetypal quarter, which represents a 25% summation implicit the archetypal 4th of past twelvemonth net of $0.87 a share.