10-Q · May 4, 2026
Citizens Financial Group reported strong financial results for Q1 2026, with a substantial increase in revenue and net income driven by improved margins and a growing noninterest income stream. The company achieved an…
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CFG earnings analysis
Filed August 3, 2026 · Our reading of the company's report
The latest report
Citizens posted a strong Q2: revenue increased 12% year over year to $2.283 billion, diluted EPS rose 41% to $1.30, and NIM expanded 22 bps to 3.16%. Both operating segments grew, with Commercial Banking benefiting from…
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Citizens posted a strong Q2: revenue increased 12% year over year to $2.283 billion, diluted EPS rose 41% to $1.30, and NIM expanded 22 bps to 3.16%. Both operating segments grew, with Commercial Banking benefiting from capital-markets activity and Consumer Banking driven by NII; credit costs also improved materially. Offsetting considerations are the $5.1 billion rise in borrowings, modestly lower capital ratios, and management's recessionary credit-reserve assumptions. The filing contains no formal earnings or revenue guidance.
Where revenue came from
The business segments reported by the company.
Shares of the segments disclosed in this filing, largest first.
How we read each report
Our analysis across the last few reports.
Our model's reading of each filing, not the share price or the market's reaction. Annual and quarterly reports each occupy one position.
Reported figures
- Earnings per share
- $1.3
What stood out
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Revenue and EPS accelerated
Q2 total revenue was $2.283 billion, up $246 million (12%) from $2.037 billion a year earlier and up $115 million (5%) from the implied Q1 2026 level of $2.168 billion. Net income rose $151 million to $587 million, while diluted EPS increased $0.38 to $1.30 year over year and $0.18 from the implied Q1 EPS of $1.12.
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NII and NIM expanded
Net interest income increased $194 million (14%) to $1.631 billion, and net interest margin expanded 22 bps to 3.16% year over year. Management attributed this to interest-earning asset growth, higher margin, terminated-swap impacts, and fixed-rate asset repricing.
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Commercial banking led fee growth
Commercial Banking revenue grew $88 million (13%) to $759 million, including a $60 million increase in noninterest income to $292 million from stronger M&A, loan-syndication and bond-underwriting fees. Segment net income increased $74 million to $280 million.
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Consumer NII more than offset fees
Consumer Banking revenue increased $115 million (7%) to $1.662 billion and net income rose $50 million to $426 million. Segment NII grew $130 million to $1.348 billion, more than offsetting a $15 million decline in noninterest income, largely mortgage banking.
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Credit costs and criticized loans improved
Credit performance improved: provision expense declined $30 million to $134 million, Q2 net charge-offs declined $32 million to $135 million, and the net charge-off ratio fell 11 bps to 0.37%. Commercial criticized balances declined $1.0 billion to $5.3 billion since year-end.
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Operating cash flow strengthened
Six-month operating cash flow was $963 million versus $673 million a year earlier; capital expenditures were only $21 million, or 2% of operating cash flow. Cash and cash equivalents ended at $12.760 billion, up $33 million during the six months.
What to watch
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Wholesale borrowing rose sharply
Funding leverage increased: total borrowed funds rose $5.1 billion to $16.3 billion from December 31, 2025, led by FHLB advances and debt issuance. Long-term borrowed funds alone increased to $15.190 billion from $11.224 billion.
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Capital ratios declined with RWA growth
CFG CET1 fell 20 bps to 10.4% from 10.6% at year-end as risk-weighted assets increased $4.843 billion to $176.336 billion. The decline reflected buybacks and dividends alongside higher commercial and industrial loan balances.
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Meaningful downside ACL sensitivity
Management's two-year ACL forecast assumes a mild recession with 5.3% peak unemployment and a 0.6% real-GDP decline. In a more pessimistic scenario, modeled lifetime losses would be about 1.5x the period-end modeled ACL, implying an approximately $700 million increase, excluding qualitative adjustments.
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Mortgage banking remained a fee headwind
Mortgage banking fees fell $31 million (42%) year over year to $42 million due to lower MSR valuation results, net of hedging. Consumer Banking noninterest income consequently declined $15 million to $314 million.
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No formal risk-factor update; deposit mix risk remains
There were no updated Item 1A risk factors in this 10-Q; the company directs investors to its 2025 Form 10-K. Nonetheless, uninsured deposits were $89.617 billion and represented 38% of $185.620 billion of total deposits, leaving deposit stability a continuing liquidity consideration.
Management's outlook
The 10-Q provides no company EPS or revenue guidance. Quantitative forward disclosures include expected pretax cash-flow-hedge losses reclassified from AOCI of $114 million over the next 12 months, including $52 million in Q3 2026 and $27 million in Q4 2026 from terminated swaps.
Earlier filings 4
10-K · February 12, 2026
Citizens Financial Group positions itself as a top-performing regional bank built on a “three-legged stool” strategy (Transformed Consumer Bank, best-positioned Commercial Bank, premier Private Bank) and five strategic…
10-Q · November 3, 2025
Citizens (CFG) reported net income of $494 million and diluted EPS of $1.05 for Q3 2025, representing a YoY increase of $112 million and $0.28, respectively. Revenue (net interest income plus noninterest income) totaled…
10-K · February 13, 2025
The 2024 Form 10-K presents Citizens Financial Group as a scale regional bank with $217.5 billion of total assets, $174.8 billion of deposits and $24.3 billion of stockholders’ equity at December 31, 2024, operating…
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