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First Horizon is a Memphis-based financial holding company whose main business is taking deposits from businesses and individuals and lending to customers through First Horizon Bank. Deposits are its largest and generally cheapest source of lending funds. Borrowers pay interest, and the bank keeps the difference after paying its funding costs; this net interest income supplies most of its revenue. Commercial, consumer and wealth banking is its largest business.
Most loans go to businesses, with business-purpose lending larger than commercial real estate lending. Mortgage lenders and finance and insurance companies are a notable borrower group. Consumer lending is mostly secured by homes. Traditional banking centers on the southern United States, while some specialty lending reaches customers nationally. Wealth clients also pay management and brokerage fees, and a smaller wholesale business serves institutional clients through fixed-income securities sales, trading and underwriting.
The business depends on retaining affordable deposits and on the interest earned from assets relative to funding costs. Much of its lending is concentrated in Florida, Tennessee, Texas, North Carolina and Louisiana. Banking rules require capital and limit its activities. The parent company relies mainly on payments from First Horizon Bank to service debt and pay shareholder dividends, and regulators can restrict those transfers.
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First Horizon’s results hinge on southern loan demand, deposit pricing and credit quality; also watch Pinnacle, a competitor named in its filings but missing from this list.
Regions competes with First Horizon for southern businesses seeking loans, households placing deposits and clients paying for wealth services. Its commercial lending and retail deposit trends are worth watching for pressure in their shared markets.
Truist competes with First Horizon for business borrowers and consumer deposits in Florida, North Carolina and Tennessee. Watch its deposits in those states: competition for that funding affects First Horizon’s largest revenue source, the interest it earns less the interest it pays.
Hancock Whitney Corporation competes with First Horizon for business and household banking, including deposits, managing companies’ cash and financing equipment. Its equipment loans and leases to middle-market and corporate clients offer a focused comparison with First Horizon’s equipment-finance business.
SouthState Bank competes with First Horizon for deposits that fund business and real estate loans in Florida, North Carolina and Texas. Watch the interest SouthState earns on those loans against what it pays depositors—the same funding trade-off matters to First Horizon.
Fifth Third competes with First Horizon for commercial banking clients and consumer deposits in Tennessee, Florida and North Carolina. Its business lending and deposit offerings in those states are more relevant to this rivalry than its broader wealth-management business.
First Citizens competes with First Horizon for southeastern business and consumer clients who borrow, lease equipment or pay for wealth services. Its lending and leasing to small and middle-market companies provide a useful comparison for First Horizon’s commercial business.
United Community Banks, Inc. competes with First Horizon for business loans, deposits and wealth clients in Tennessee, North Carolina and Florida. Its business-loan pricing is worth watching because it explicitly reflects both deposit costs and competitive pressure.
Huntington competes with First Horizon for business and consumer borrowers, depositors and broader banking relationships. Both also finance equipment, so Huntington’s commercial banking results offer a more focused comparison than its consumer business alone.
PNC competes with First Horizon for household deposits and companies needing banking, real estate finance or loans backed by business assets. Watch PNC’s loan pricing and credit standards in those business lines, alongside the pricing pressure it reports when gathering deposits.
Simmons First National Corp competes with First Horizon for business borrowers and consumer deposits in Tennessee and Texas. Its rates on business loans and savings, time and checking deposits show where it competes on price for those customers.
Zions and First Horizon are similarly sized regional banks whose lending and deposit businesses face the same funding and credit cycle. Zions’ interest income after funding costs and commercial credit quality are useful comparisons, though its banking business is primarily in western states.
Citizens Financial Group and First Horizon both serve consumer banking customers and lend to middle-market companies, so funding and credit-cycle changes matter to both. Watch Citizens’ middle-market lending alongside its consumer deposits rather than treating it only as a retail bank.
KeyCorp and First Horizon share exposure to funding costs and business credit through commercial loans, leases and capital-markets services alongside consumer banking. KeyCorp’s Commercial Bank results are the closer comparison for First Horizon’s business borrowers and leasing clients.
Wintrust Financial Corp and First Horizon run comparably scaled banks serving business borrowers, with profits sensitive to loan pricing and competition for deposits despite different local markets. Wintrust’s lending to small and midsized businesses offers a comparison, not a direct reading of southern loan demand.
Bank of America competes with First Horizon for consumer deposits, business loans and clients paying for wealth management in First Horizon’s markets. Its consumer and small-business banking and wealth-client balances are the relevant parts to watch, rather than its global trading business.
Wells Fargo competes with First Horizon for depositors, business borrowers, companies needing cash management and wealth clients. Its commercial lending, leasing and cash-management services are the most direct comparison with First Horizon’s business banking.
JPMorgan Chase competes with First Horizon for consumers, small businesses and commercial banking customers. Its Consumer & Community Banking and Commercial & Investment Bank results are the relevant places to look for that competition, rather than the firm’s total size.
United Community Banks, Inc. earningsUCB
United Community Banks' report will show whether business-loan pricing can withstand deposit costs and competition, pressures that also matter to First Horizon's commercial lending.
Read business-loan pricing alongside deposit costs. If loan pricing keeps pace, competition has not clearly squeezed United Community Banks' returns on business lending, offering a helpful comparison for First Horizon. If pricing weakens or deposit costs rise, loan returns face more pressure, a risk to watch in First Horizon's shared markets too.
SouthState Bank Corporation earningsSSB
SouthState Bank's report will show how loan interest income compares with what it pays depositors, a funding-cost trade-off First Horizon also faces.
Compare the interest SouthState earns on loans with what it pays depositors; the gap is its net interest margin, the difference between interest income and interest expense. A wider gap means deposit costs are taking less from loan income, a more favorable sign for First Horizon's similar funding trade-off. A narrower gap means deposit costs are absorbing more, pointing to comparable pressure on First Horizon's margin.
Fed Interest Rate Decision
First Horizon earns most of its revenue from the spread between interest on loans and securities and what it pays on deposits and borrowings, so Fed rate decisions can change that spread and its mortgage income.
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If it comes in above expectations
Higher rates can raise returns on loans and securities as they reprice, but can also lift deposit and borrowing costs; a flat or inverted yield curve can squeeze the spread, while reduced mortgage activity may further weigh on mortgage income.
If it comes in below expectations
Lower rates can reduce returns as loans and securities reprice, but may also ease deposit and borrowing costs; a steeper curve can support the spread, while cheaper borrowing may support mortgage activity and income.
