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United Bankshares Inc serves businesses and individuals through United Bank, primarily in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and Southeast. It takes customer deposits and uses that funding to make loans and hold interest-earning investments. Borrowers pay interest, while the bank pays interest on deposits and borrowings; the difference supplies most of its earnings.
Commercial lending makes up the largest part of its loan book, and much of that lending is secured by real estate. The company also earns deposit-service and brokerage fees. Its mortgage business makes home loans for sale to other lenders and investors, earning origination fees and gains on sales rather than generally keeping the servicing rights.
The business depends on retaining deposits at manageable costs, borrowers repaying their loans and property values supporting collateral. Market interest rates affect the spread it earns. Banking rules restrict its lending and investments, and minimum capital requirements can limit dividends and share repurchases.
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Atlantic Union Bankshares Corporation competes with United Bankshares for business and consumer loans and deposits in Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C. and North Carolina. Its business lending and consumer deposit results offer a nearby comparison for United’s loan demand and funding costs.
F.N.B. Corp competes with United Bankshares for business and consumer banking customers in overlapping Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and Carolina markets, where both provide loans and deposit accounts.
United Community Banks, Inc. competes with United Bankshares for commercial borrowers and retail deposits in the Carolinas and Georgia. Watch its business loan pricing: it says deposit costs and competitive pressure help determine the rates borrowers pay.
Fulton Financial Corp competes with United Bankshares for small-business loans, commercial property financing and deposits in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. Its commercial property loan performance is worth watching alongside United’s: loans on properties not occupied by their owners made up 33.75% of United’s gross loans at December 31, 2025.
Ameris Bancorp competes with United Bankshares for business deposits and loans financing commercial property in Georgia and the Carolinas.
First Commonwealth Financial Corporation competes with United Bankshares for business and consumer banking customers in western Pennsylvania and Ohio, with both offering loans and deposit services.
S&T Bancorp Inc competes with United Bankshares for small-business and consumer banking customers in Pennsylvania and Ohio, including western Pennsylvania, through loans and deposit accounts.
First Community Corp competes with United Bankshares for small-business and individual banking customers in South Carolina’s Midlands and Upstate markets. Its deposit and loan rates show the pricing United faces when attracting those customers.
Bank of the James Financial Group, Inc competes with United Bankshares for business and consumer deposits, real estate loans and home mortgages in Virginia, including Lynchburg. Watch its deposit rates: deposits are a major source of the money it lends, and it prices them competitively with local banks.
Atlantic Union Bankshares Corporation earningsAUB
Atlantic Union Bankshares’ report will show business-loan demand and deposit costs in Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and North Carolina, where it competes with United Bankshares for borrowers and deposits.
Read business-loan performance alongside deposit costs. Resilient lending with contained deposit costs would point to a more favorable borrower and funding environment for United Bankshares in these markets. Weaker lending or rising deposit costs would point to softer demand or fiercer competition for deposits, either of which can weigh on loan income or raise funding costs.
Housing Starts (Sep)
New-home construction readings track building activity and home sales, which can affect demand for United Bank’s residential mortgages and the origination fees and loan-sale gains it earns when selling those mortgages.
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 building and sales than expected could support demand for United Bank’s residential mortgages and increase mortgage originations, fees and gains when it sells loans.
If it comes in below expectations
Less building and sales than expected could weaken demand for United Bank’s residential mortgages, reducing originations, fees and gains when it sells loans.
Fulton Financial Corp earningsFULT
Fulton Financial’s report will show how commercial-property borrowers are faring in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, offering a credit-risk comparison for United Bankshares’ sizable nonowner-occupied property lending.
Check whether Fulton Financial’s commercial-property delinquencies, problem loans, or credit-loss provision are rising, against its ordinary performance. Stable measures would suggest commercial-property credit in these overlapping markets is holding up. Deterioration would make borrower and collateral risk worth watching in United Bankshares’ nonowner-occupied commercial-property loans, which were 33.75% of its gross loans; the two banks’ portfolios are not identical.
United Bankshares Inc earningsThis company
United Bankshares earns mainly from the gap between loan income and deposit and borrowing costs, and this report will show whether that income still covers credit losses.
Read net interest income alongside the provision for credit losses, the amount set aside for expected loan losses. Rising net interest income without a marked increase in the provision would show that income from loans and other earning assets is still outpacing funding costs and expected losses. Weaker net interest income with a larger provision would show funding pressure or borrower risk squeezing the community-banking profit.
Fed Interest Rate Decision
Federal Reserve decisions track the benchmark rate that influences what United Bank earns on loans and investments and pays on deposits and borrowings, affecting its net interest income.
Expected4.0%Last release4.0%
If it comes in above expectations
If the policy rate is higher than expected, United Bank may earn more on loans and investments that reprice, but higher deposit and borrowing costs or weaker loan demand and repayment could offset that benefit.
If it comes in below expectations
If the policy rate is lower than expected, United Bank may pay less for deposits and borrowings, but lower yields on loans and investments could reduce interest income.
