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F.N.B. Corp serves individuals and businesses in the eastern United States, principally through its banking subsidiary FNBPA. Customers deposit money and borrow to buy homes, finance equipment or fund their businesses. The bank uses deposits and other funding to make loans and hold investment securities. Interest earned after paying funding costs supplies most of the group’s revenue, and Community Banking is its largest business.
The bank also earns fees for accounts, payments and other financial services, and earns income by originating and selling mortgages. Banking relationships bring customers to its smaller wealth-management and insurance businesses. FNTC administers trusts and estates, while First National Investment Services offers investments through a third-party brokerage arrangement. FNIA arranges business and personal insurance through major insurers, earning commissions and fees.
The business depends on retaining deposits at manageable costs, borrowers repaying loans and how lending and funding rates change. Most loans and deposits come from its operating regions, rather than a single large customer. The parent company relies particularly on FNBPA dividends, which banking law limits. FNBPA also operates under fair-lending consent orders that may limit the group’s ability to grow through bank combinations.
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F.N.B. Corp’s results hinge on regional loan demand, deposit costs and credit quality; Pittsburgh-based PNC is an important rival in its core market missing from this list.
Fulton Financial competes with F.N.B. Corp in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia for business loans, deposits, equipment financing and wealth-management customers. Its lending to small and midsized businesses is worth watching for clues to demand in their shared markets.
United Bankshares competes with F.N.B. Corp for businesses’ loans, customers’ deposits and home mortgages across overlapping Mid-Atlantic, West Virginia and Carolina markets.
Citizens Financial Group directly competes with F.N.B. Corp for households’ deposits and business loans in Pittsburgh and other Pennsylvania and Ohio markets.
United Community Banks competes with F.N.B. Corp in North and South Carolina for business banking, deposits, equipment financing and wealth-management customers. Watch what it charges business borrowers: its lending rates reflect both competitive pressure and deposit costs.
SouthState Bank competes with F.N.B. Corp for deposits and real estate borrowers in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Its interest paid to depositors and interest earned on real estate loans offer a comparison for FNB’s funding costs and lending income.
First Financial Bancorp competes with F.N.B. Corp in overlapping Ohio banking markets, with both offering business loans, deposits, wealth management and financing to buy or lease equipment. Its business working-capital and longer-term lending provide a useful comparison for FNB’s commercial loan demand.
Old National and F.N.B. Corp both use customers’ deposits to fund relationship-based business lending, so loan demand and funding costs matter to both. Old National’s strong commercial loan pipeline entering 2026 gives FNB holders a comparison for business borrowing appetite.
WSFS Financial and F.N.B. Corp both combine deposit-funded business lending with wealth and trust services in Mid-Atlantic markets. Watch WSFS’s deposits from business, wealth and trust customers, which help fund its commercial loans and leases.
Hancock Whitney and F.N.B. Corp are regional banks of broadly comparable scale that use business and household deposits to fund loans, alongside equipment financing and wealth services. Hancock Whitney’s financing and leases for middle-market and corporate equipment buyers offer a comparison for FNB’s equipment-lending business.
Associated Banc-Corp and F.N.B. Corp both depend on lasting customer relationships to attract deposits and lend to local businesses and households. Associated’s rates paid on deposits and charged on loans are worth comparing with FNB’s loan-and-deposit interest spread.
Wintrust Financial and F.N.B. Corp both rely on customer relationships to gather deposits and fund loans to businesses, households and local governments. Wintrust’s lending to small and midsized businesses offers a comparison for FNB’s business loan demand, while its deposit pricing helps frame funding costs.
Housing Starts (Sep)
For FNB, readings on new-home building and sales show housing activity that can affect how many mortgage loans it originates and sells, and thus its mortgage-banking income.
Expected1.31MLast release1.275M
If it comes in above expectations
If the reading is above the 1.31M estimate, it is above the previous 1.275M. More home building or sales can support housing activity and give FNB more opportunities to originate and sell mortgages, potentially lifting mortgage-banking income.
If it comes in below expectations
Less home building or sales can weaken housing activity and reduce opportunities for FNB to originate and sell mortgages, potentially lowering mortgage-banking income.
Fed Interest Rate Decision
For FNB, the Fed’s rate decision signals how borrowing costs may shift, affecting what the bank earns on loans and securities and pays for deposits and borrowings.
Expected4.0%Last release4.0%
If it comes in above expectations
If the policy rate is higher than expected, FNB may pay more for deposits and borrowings as those costs adjust, which can squeeze the difference between funding costs and income from loans and securities; the effect depends on repricing and depositor behavior.
If it comes in below expectations
If the policy rate is lower than expected, FNB may pay less for deposits and borrowings as those costs adjust, potentially easing funding pressure; lower rates can also reduce what it earns on loans and securities, so the net effect depends on repricing and depositor behavior.
