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Banco Popular Q4 2025 Earnings Call - Loans, margins and buybacks drove a 36% jump in 2025 profit
Banco Popular closed 2025 on a clear momentum note, reporting $833 million in net income for the year, up 36% year over year, and Q4 profit of $234 million. The beat came from faster loan growth, expa...
- 2025 net income was $833 million, a $219 million or 36% increase versus 2024; Q4 net income was $234 million and EPS was $3.53, up $0.38 sequentially.
- Loan growth was a key driver: total loans rose $2.2 billion for 2025, a 6% increase; Q4 loan growth was $641 million, led by commercial and mortgage lending.
- Net interest income (NII) trends supported performance: Q4 NII was $658 million, up $11 million sequentially; NII for the year rose about $259 million or 11%.
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HCA Healthcare Fourth Quarter 2025 Earnings Call - Resilient operations meet material exchange and supplemental payment headwinds, offset by $400M resiliency, higher capex, and a new $10B buyback
HCA closed 2025 with steady volume growth and margin improvement, reporting a strong fourth quarter and full-year performance driven by disciplined cost control, hurricane market benefits, and outsize...
- 19th consecutive quarter of volume growth, same-facility equivalent admissions up about 2.5% in Q4 and 2.4% for the year.
- Q4 revenue rose 6.7% year over year, adjusted EBITDA up roughly 11% in the quarter, and adjusted EBITDA rose 12.1% for full-year 2025 with a 90 basis point margin improvement year over year.
- Net income attributable to HCA increased almost 31% in Q4, adjusted diluted EPS rose about 29% in the quarter, and adjusted EPS for the year increased 28.5%.
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The Crane Company Q4 2025 Earnings Call - Acquisitions, CEO Succession, and Margin-Levered Growth Set the Tone for 2026
Crane closed a strong 2025 with Q4 adjusted EPS of $1.53, 21% above last year, and full-year adjusted EPS up 24%. Management leaned into an acquisitive playbook, closing Baker Hughes carve-outs Druck,...
- Q4 adjusted EPS $1.53, up 21% year over year; full-year adjusted EPS rose 24% driven by 5.4% core sales growth and operating productivity.
- Management closed four deals at the start of 2026: Druck, Panametrics, Reuter-Stokes from Baker Hughes, and Optek-Danulat in Germany, adding roughly $40m in annual sales from Optek.
- Reuter-Stokes doubles Crane's nuclear exposure, bringing radiation sensing tech for nuclear operations and homeland security into Crane Nuclear.
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Triumph Q4 2025 Earnings Call - Core payments margin climbing, LoadPay set to triple revenue in 2026
Triumph used Q4 to emphasize that its payments engine is finally humming. Core payments delivered a ~30% EBITDA margin in Q4 and management expects that margin to trend higher in 2026, with a long-ter...
- Core payments delivered roughly 29.5% EBITDA margin in Q4 and management expects the core payments margin to exceed 30% in 2026 and trend higher toward a long-term target of 50% plus.
- LoadPay exited Q4 with $1.5 million of annualized revenue and Triumph is guiding to roughly triple that revenue in 2026, driven by a mix of account growth and higher utilization, not primarily by Factoring as a Service.
- LoadPay growth assumptions for 2026: opening 7,000 to 12,000 new accounts and targeting about $750 revenue per account on average, while top 10 accounts are tracking above $5,000 per year.
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Nucor Q4 2025 Earnings Call - CapEx Peak Done, Backlogs and Tariffs Set Stage for 2026 Ramp
Nucor closed 2025 with solid but transitionary results, reporting adjusted EPS of $1.73 in Q4 and $7.71 for the year, and quarterly EBITDA of $918 million. The company poured $3.4 billion into growth ...
- Q4 adjusted EPS was $1.73, full-year adjusted EPS was $7.71, and Q4 EBITDA was $918 million, with full-year EBITDA about $4.2 billion.
- Nucor invested $3.4 billion in 2025 projects, many moving from construction into ramp-up, and guided 2026 CapEx of about $2.5 billion.
- The company intentionally generated negative free cash flow in 2025 to fund growth, and expects materially higher free cash flow in 2026 as CapEx steps down and new assets contribute incremental EBITDA.
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NBT Bancorp Fourth Quarter 2025 Earnings Call - Operating Leverage and Diversified Fees Offset CRE Payoffs and Solar Run-off
NBT closed 2025 showing the kind of steady, boringly effective progress banks like this love. Operating ROA held at 1.37% for a second straight quarter, tangible book rose 11% year over year, and fees...
- Operating return on assets was 1.37% for the second consecutive quarter, with return on tangible equity of 17.02%, signaling sustained positive operating leverage.
- Tangible book value per share finished at $26.54, up 11% year over year.
- Net interest margin was 3.65% in Q4, down 1 basis point sequentially but improved 36 basis points year over year due to asset repricing and funding cost management.
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First BanCorp 4Q 2025 Earnings Call - Leaner funding, rising shareholder returns, credit still stable
First BanCorp closed 2025 with a tidy set of results: record revenue and year net income of $345 million, a top-quarter ROA near 1.8%, and aggressive capital returns. Management repurchased $150 milli...
- Mixed messaging on EPS in the prepared remarks. CEO stated Q4 EPS of $0.85, while the CFO reported $0.55 per share for Q4; net income for the quarter was $87.1 million. The discrepancy was not reconciled on the call and should be clarified.
- Full year 2025 net income reached $344.9 million, or $2.15 per share, with adjusted non-GAAP net income of $325.3 million, up about 8.6% year over year.
- Return on average assets for 2025 was about 1.8% to 1.9%, marking the fourth consecutive year above the bank’s 1.5% ROA target.
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Northrop Grumman Q4 2025 Earnings Call - Record Backlog and Capacity Build-Out Set Stage for Acceleration
Northrop Grumman closed 2025 with a record backlog of about $95-$96 billion after $46 billion of net awards, delivered 2025 sales of $42 billion and free cash flow of $3.3 billion, and beat the high e...
- Record backlog near $95-$96 billion at year end, driven by roughly $46 billion in net awards in 2025.
- 2025 sales were $42.0 billion, above the high end of guidance, with Q4 sales $11.7 billion, up 10% year over year.
- Free cash flow for 2025 was $3.3 billion, up 26% versus 2024, the third straight year of at least 25% FCF growth.
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Union Pacific Q4 2025 Earnings Call - Operational Records, Mid-Single-Digit EPS Guide and Merger Moves Through a Procedural Hiccup
Union Pacific closed 2025 with record operational and financial outcomes, even as Q4 volumes softened and macro indicators cooled. Management reported best-ever full-year safety and operational metric...
- Full-year 2025 reported net income $7.1 billion, up 6%, and EPS $11.98, up 8%.
- 2025 freight revenue excluding fuel grew 3% year-over-year, setting a full-year record.
- Adjusted full-year operating ratio improved 60 basis points to 59.3% versus 2024.
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World Acceptance Corporation Third Quarter 2026 Earnings Call - New-customer surge lifts yields while early delinquencies fall
World Acceptance reported a clear pivot back to growth in Q3 fiscal 2026, driven by a heavy uptick in new-customer originations and improving yield dynamics. Originations and active new-customer balan...
- New-customer originations rose 16% in the quarter, driving portfolio growth.
- Active new-customer outstanding ledger was 25% higher than the same quarter last year.
- Management noted these new customers are the riskiest segment and referenced a roughly $8 million additional provision for new customers in the comparable quarter last year.
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