Truist Q2 2026: EPS $1.23 beats, revenue $5.27 billion, $1.2 billion buyback
Truist beat the $1.089 consensus EPS with $1.23 and grew revenue 5.5% year over year to $5.265 billion, so the headline is a clean beat rather than a cost-cutting story. Read it as a fee-income quarter: investment banking and trading income jumped 71.7% while net interest margin slipped to 2.98%. The bank returned $1.8 billion of dividends and buybacks.
1 · Expected vs. Actual
Free preview belowDiluted EPS of $1.23 beat the $1.089 consensus by roughly 13% and rose 37% from $0.90 a year ago. It also beat last quarter's $1.09, so the improvement came on both a linked and a year-over-year basis.
Revenue of $5.265 billion rose 5.5% from $4.99 billion a year earlier and 2.2% from $5.152 billion last quarter. The engine was fees, not lending: noninterest income of $1.644 billion climbed 17.4% year over year, led by investment banking and trading income of $352 million, up 71.7%.
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Figures on this page come from the company's original SEC filings. The analysis is generated automatically and checked against validation rules, but may still contain errors or omissions. Not investment advice. · Generated 2026-09-17
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