Q3 2024 First Horizon Corp Earnings Call

Participants

Natalie Flanders; Senior Vice President, Head of Investor Relations; First Horizon Corp

Bryan Jordan; Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer; First Horizon Corp

Hope Dmuchowski; Chief Financial Officer, Senior Executive Vice President; First Horizon Corp

Thomas Hung; Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Credit Officer; First Horizon Corp

Ebrahim Poonawala; Analyst; Bank of America Securities

Michael Rose; Analyst; Raymond James Financial, Inc

Jon Arfstrom; Analyst; RBC Capital Markets

Jared Shaw; Analyst; Barclays Capital, Inc.

Samuel Varga; Analyst; UBS Securities LLC

Christopher McGratty; Analyst; Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc.

Timur Braziler; Analyst; Wells Fargo & Company

Christopher Marinac; Analyst; Janney Montgomery Scott LLC

Presentation

Operator

Good morning all and thank you for joining us for the First Horizon third-quarter 2024 earnings conference call. My name is Carly, and I'll be your coordinator for today. (Operator Instructions)
I'd now like to hand over to your host, Natalie Flanders, Head of IR to begin, floor is yours.

Natalie Flanders

Thank you, Carly. Good morning. Welcome to our third quarter 2024 results conference call. Thank you for joining us. Today our Chairman, President and CEO, Bryan Jordan; and Chief Financial Officer, Hope Dmuchowski will provide prepared remarks after which we'll be happy to take your questions. We're also pleased to have our Chief Credit Officer, Thomas Hung here to assist with questions as well.
Our remarks today will reference our earnings presentation which is available on our website at ir.firsthorizon.com.
As always, I need to remind you that we will make forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Therefore, we ask you to review the factors that may cause our results to differ from our expectations on page 2 of our presentation and in our SEC filings.
Additionally, please be aware that our comments will refer to adjusted results which exclude the impact of notable items. These are non-GAAP measures. So it's important for you to review the GAAP information in our earnings release and on page 3 of our presentation. And last but not least our comments reflect our current views and you should understand that we are not obligated to update them.
And with that, I'll turn things over to Bryan.

Bryan Jordan

Thank you, Natalie. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining our call. Before we get into the details of the quarter. I want to express our concern and support for those who were impacted by Hurricane Helene and melt. I'm incredibly proud of our team, how our team prepared for and responded to the needs of our associates, clients and communities.
We were on the ground immediately providing food, water, fuel and other essential supplies. In North Carolina and Tennessee. All but one of our banking centers are back open with mobile banking units on site there to provide continuous banking services to our clients.
Florida is in the early stages of recovery but our banking centers fared well and all are open at this time. We've also announced financial commitments to the restoration of these communities and will remain heavily engaged in the rebuilding process.
On slide 5, we have shared some of the financial highlights for the quarter. First Horizon delivered another strong quarter for our shareholders. As we grew revenue, maintained expense discipline, improved credit coverage and continued to generate capital. Our results this quarter reflect the strength of our diversified business model and our continued focus on growing and deepening client relationships.
We achieved an adjusted EPS of $0.42 per share which was the $0.06 increase from the prior quarter. Pre provision, net revenue increased $11 million, improving our adjusted return on tangible common equity to 13.2%.
We continue to deploy capital through share repurchases buying back $75 million of stock in the third quarter and over $440 million year-to-date, we ended the quarter with a common equity Tier 1 ratio of 11.2%.
Our results continue to demonstrate the benefit of our disciplined credit culture as we saw just $24 million or 15 basis points of net charge this quarter. I'm proud of the dedication -- that our bankers display and serving our clients and communities throughout the Southeast. I believe we are well positioned to capitalize on our attractive footprint and opportunities to grow along with these markets.
As we head into next year, I remain incredibly optimistic that our franchise is fully equipped to navigate any economic environment we encounter, while continuing to enhance shareholder value.
With that, I'll hand the call over to Hope to run through our financial results in more detail. Hope?