F.N.B. 2026年第三季度业绩电话会：贷款增长，净息差扩大以及更新后的业绩指引lg...

要点速览

• F.N.B. Corporation公布2026年第三季度净利润为1.53亿美元，即每股0.43美元。今年迄今每股收益（EPS）达1.23美元，较2025年同期增长13%。
• 在创纪录的3.77亿美元净利息收入支撑下，营业收入总计达到4.69亿美元。净息差环比扩大4个基点至3.29%。
• 期末贷款及租赁余额达365亿美元，按年化计算环比增长8.5%。商业与工业（C&I）贷款按年化计算增长20%，消费贷款增加4.35亿美元。
• 存款环比增加8.71亿美元，按年化计算增长9%。无息存款占总存款比例维持在26%，有助于将计息存款成本的增幅限制在1个基点。
• 信贷指标仍接近历史低位。净坏账冲销率由19个基点改善至12个基点，不良贷款（NPL）及收回抵押地产（OREO）合计占33个基点。
• 管理层将全年净利息收入指引调整为14.85亿至15.00亿美元，并将拨备指引上限下调500万美元至8000万至9000万美元。

核心财务数据

业务与运营表现

贷款增长主要由商业与工业贷款、设备融资及消费类产品带动。商业与工业贷款余额增加4.07亿美元，其中克利夫兰和宾夕法尼亚地区的贡献显著。管理层还提及制造业相关贷款表现强劲，且进入第四季度的储备项目十分充沛。

受季节性住宅住房抵押贷款发放量、房屋净值贷款（HELOC）及间接汽车贷款增长推动，消费贷款增加了4.35亿美元。新发放消费贷款的平均信用评分（FICO）为785分，消费贷款逾期率和净冲销率分别为72个基点和5个基点。

受预期偿还及二级市场交易影响，商业地产（CRE）贷款余额环比减少9000万美元。截至季度末，CRE风险敞口占一级资本加拨备的比率为182%。管理层预计随着新发放贷款超过组合退出规模，CRE余额将在2027年初开始回升。

存款增长反映了无息存款、交易账户、货币市场余额及季节性财资管理资金流入的推动。贷存比保持稳定，为92.4%。F.N.B.表示，根据FDIC的存款市场份额排名，其在其80%以上的大都市市场中位列前10名。

收费业务表现参差不齐。保险佣金及手续费同比增长20%，主要来自财产及意外伤害保险业务。财富管理收入增长近4%至2100万美元。资本市场收入受去年同期高基数影响同比下降18%，但管理层提到了第四季度在衍生品、投资银行和公共融资领域的机遇。

F.N.B.在本季度回购了5100万美元（即270万股）股票。今年迄今累计回购1.33亿美元（即740万股），截至季度末仍有超过2亿美元的回购额度。

管理层业绩指引

管理层继续预计2026年将保持强劲的正向经营杠杆。该展望假设存款竞争持续处于高位，且仍受宏观经济和地缘政治不确定性的影响。

第四季度，管理层预计净息差将逐步扩大低至中单位数基点。驱动因素包括贷款重定价的全季度效应、更高的短期利率，以及比到期资产收益率高出200-250个基点的证券再投资收益率。

风险与关注领域

F.N.B.继续就中东潜在的供应链中断、石油和柴油价格波动以及北美关税不确定性保留定性拨备叠加。

本季度关注类贷款增加了40个基点。管理层预计贷款评级上调和偿还可抵消这一增加，且不会产生相关坏账冲销，但化解时点仍对近期信贷趋势有重要影响。

较高利率可能挤压住宅抵押贷款活动，并影响商业地产（CRE）价值和偿债覆盖率。管理层表示，100-150个基点的利率冲击可能会带来更广泛的行业挑战，尽管F.N.B.在核保交易时采用了300-400个基点的利率冲击测试。

存款定价依然极具竞争性。管理层提到，9月份新增的大额存单（CD）综合利率为3.22%，13个月期CD的促销利率为4.15%，同时强调其将重点维护无息存款。

分析师问答环节要点

• 技术与效率：管理层预计将继续加大对人工智能（AI）、数据分析及Insight 360平台的投资，以支持收入增长、客户家庭渗透率和运营效率。目前仍有约100项AI相关项目在评估中，部署顺序将根据预期价值和成本进行优先排序。
• 贷款储备项目：管理层表示，商业与工业（C&I）贷款储备项目强劲且呈现地域多样化，在制造业、设备融资以及宾夕法尼亚州、俄亥俄州、中大西洋和东南部多个市场均表现强劲。目前管理层并不认为加息25个基点会对需求构成重大制约。
• 第四季度盈利驱动因素：管理层预计，更高的平均贷款余额、贷款重定价、证券再投资、资本市场活动以及法律、欺诈相关和首付补助费用的下降将对盈利提供支撑。
• 资本配置：F.N.B.继续根据回报和资本增殖情况评估回购、股息、内生性贷款及收购。管理层表示，股票回购依然具有吸引力，但对并购（M&A）保持审慎选择的态度。
• 资产负债定位：资产负债表保持接近中性，略具资产敏感性。管理层表示，在当前定位下，潜在的加息对2027年的业绩不应产生实质性影响。

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管理层陈述

Operator

Good day, and welcome to the F.N.B. Third Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Lisa Hajdu, Manager of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Lisa Hajdu

Good morning, and welcome to our earnings call. This conference call of F.N.B. Corporation and the reports it files with the Securities and Exchange Commission often contain forward-looking statements and non-GAAP financial measures. Non-GAAP financial measures should be viewed in addition to and not as an alternative for our reported results prepared in accordance with GAAP. Reconciliations of GAAP to non-GAAP operating measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures are included in our presentation materials and in our earnings release. Please refer to these non-GAAP and forward-looking statement disclosures contained in our related materials, reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and are available on our website. .

A replay of this call will be available until Tuesday, October 27, and the webcast link will be posted to the -- about Us, Investor Relations section of our corporate website. I will now turn the call over to Vince Del-Lee, Chairman, President and CEO.

Vincent J. Delie

Thank you, and welcome to our third quarter earnings call. Joining me today are Vincent Calabrese, our Chief Financial Officer; and Gary Guerrieri, our Chief Credit Officer.

F.N.B. third quarter net income of $153 million or $0.43 per share. This brings year-to-date earnings per share to $1.23, a 13% increase over the same period in 2025. F.N.B. produced solid revenue of $469 million, benefiting from a diverse income stream with record net interest income of $377 million.

This quarter, F.N.B. repurchased $51 million or 2.7 million shares of common stock, bringing the year-to-date buyback to $133 million or 7.4 million shares, representing 2.1% of total shares at the beginning of the year.

Tangible book value per common share increased 7% year-over-year to $12.28. Even with the buyback activity and negative impact of AOCI, demonstrating strong profitability levels and peer-leading internal capital generation.

Total loans ended the quarter at $36.5 billion, an 8.5% annualized linked quarter increase. F.N.B's. Loan growth has once again exceeded the published H8 data as we continue to gain market share across our geography led by commercial and industrial, equipment finance, consumer lending and seasonal residential mortgage production. Annualized linked-quarter deposit growth of 9% also outpaced the industry benefiting from deepening customer relationships as well as seasonal deposit inflows. Even with the strong deposit growth and increased competition, the cost of interest-bearing deposits was stable with only a 1 basis point increase.

Noninterest-bearing deposits ended the quarter over $10 billion, an annualized increase of 3%. The mix of noninterest-bearing deposits to total deposits ended the quarter at 26%, a level we have held for 8 straight quarters. As we have frequently discussed, we utilize all our tools, including data science, to price our deposits and support our client base while protecting net interest margin. This quarter, net interest margin increased 4 basis points to 3.29%. The FDIC deposit market share data released in September revealed that FNB outperformed overall market deposit growth to maintain strong market share positions. We now rank in the top 10 in over 80% of our MSAs, top 5 in 50% and top 3 in 30%. We continue to build out our fee-based platform, including our recent announcement to expand our family wealth program to serve ultra-high net worth clients with additional investments in specialized sophisticated advisory services and advanced solutions.

This is lead wealth advisory office aligns with our strategic approach to develop and expand new high-value business units that complement our existing products and services, driving a larger percentage share of total revenue. Our leadership team has established or significantly expanded 11 business lines, including 2 added last year, investment banking and public finance with both contributing to fee income this year. Investment banking has closed several deals with many opportunities in the pipeline.

Public finance has participated in a number of large bond underwritings and was recently awarded a significant left lead opportunity this quarter. We remain steadfast in our approach to consistent underwriting and managing credit risk to maintain a balanced well-positioned portfolio, enabling us to serve our customers through various business cycles. I would now like to turn the call over to Gary to discuss our credit results for the quarter. Gary?

Gary L. Guerrieri

Thank you, Vince, and good morning, everyone. We had another solid quarter of consistent credit performance across our portfolios. Delinquency totaled 75 basis points, up slightly in the quarter with NPLs and OREO remaining at near historical lows totaling 33 basis points, up 2 bps in the quarter and down 4 bps on a year-over-year basis. Net large offs reflect strong performance at 12 basis points, an improvement from 19 basis points in the prior quarter.

Criticized loans increased 40 basis points in the quarter with anticipated resolutions expected to offset this increase in the quarter ahead. Total funded provision expense for the quarter stood at $19.2 million, once again supporting our strong loan growth. Our ending fund reserve now stands at $455 million, an increase of $8.1 million, ending at 1.25%. When including acquired unamortized loan discounts, our reserve stands at 1.29% and our NPL coverage position remained strong at 396% and inclusive of the discounts.

We continue to maintain qualitative overlays for potential supply chain impacts due to the events in the Middle East, oil and diesel price volatility and ongoing tariff uncertainty in North America. Our consistent and proactive approach to managing credit risk and solid Allowance coverage enables us to maintain a strong credit profile through various economic environments.

Turning to loan growth. We are pleased with the resilience of our customer base which continues to perform well despite recent rate increases and ongoing inflationary pressures. Once again, we saw a strong reduction across all consumer categories this quarter while maintaining our solid credit metrics, with average origination FICO scores of 785 and delinquency and charge-offs of 72 and 5 basis points, respectively.

Despite a slight downtick in utilization, C&I loan growth was strong in the quarter, particularly in the manufacturing sector. CRE continued to decline as expected due to secondary market activity, ending at 182% of Tier 1 capital plus allowance. The declines were partially offset by a number of new projects originated in the quarter, and we are encouraged by the level of new opportunities we are seeing across our markets.

In closing, despite the continued macroeconomic volatility, our loan growth was strong in the quarter in both the wholesale and retail portfolios. Our loan portfolio remains well positioned, reflecting solid performance across each asset class with credit metrics near historical lows.

Pipelines continue to be robust as we enter the fourth quarter, positioning us well to achieve our desired growth targets this quarter and in the year ahead. I will now turn the call over to Vince Calabrese, our Chief Financial Officer, for his remarks.

Vincent J. Calabrese

Thanks, Gary, and good morning. Today, I will review the third quarter financial results and walk through our full year guidance. Third quarter net income totaled $153 million or $0.43 per share, driven by strong growth in C&I and consumer loans and a 4 basis point sequential increase in the net interest margin. Both total loans and leases ended the quarter at $36.5 billion, an 8.5% annualized linked quarter increase. Growth of $435 million in consumer loans and $333 million in commercial loans and leases drove the increase.

Box C&I loans grew at a 20% annualized linked-quarter rate were $407 million, driven by growth across multiple markets most notably the Cleveland and Pennsylvania markets. CRE balances continue to be impacted by payoffs as expected and were down $90 million linked quarter. Seasonal growth in residential mortgages and growth in HELOCs and indirect auto fueled the rise in consumer loans. Spot total deposits grew $871 million sequentially, a 9% annualized rate, driven by growth in noninterest-bearing deposits, low-cost transaction deposits and money market accounts.

Seasonal treasury management inflows and deepening of customer relationships fuel the overall deposit growth. So noninterest-bearing deposits increased $78 million sequentially and remained stable at 26% of total deposits. The loan-to-deposit ratio was also stable from last quarter at a healthy 92.4%. The third quarter rise in the net interest margin at 3.29%, coupled with strong loan growth and a higher day count resulted in a nearly $11 million sequential increase in net interest income. Yield on earning assets increased 5 basis points sequentially to 5.18% is 1-month term SOFR moved higher and the securities portfolio yield jumped 12 basis points to 373 as reinvestment rates remained well above the overall portfolio yield.

Total cost of funds increased 2 basis points from the second quarter to 2.01% with rates paid on interest-bearing deposits up only 1 basis point and rates paid on total borrowings down 4 basis points.

Turning to noninterest income and expense. Noninterest income totaled $93 million, Service charges increased 5.7% from the year ago period on increased treasury management fee revenue and higher consumer transaction volumes. Insurance commissions and fees were up 20%, primarily due to growth in the property and casualty business. Wealth management revenues increased nearly 4% year-over-year to $21 million, with contributions across the geographic footprint.

Capital markets income reflected solid contributions across these businesses, even with an 18% reduction due to record debt capital markets and international banking income in the year ago quarter. Other noninterest income declined primarily due to a $5.4 million asset recovery recorded last year. Noninterest expense totaled $257 million, a 4.5% increase from the year ago quarter when adjusting for an FDIC special assessment reduction last year. Salaries and employee benefits increased only 1% as strategic hiring and normal merit increases were offset by lower variable compensation. Occupancy and equipment increased 14% primarily due to technology-related investments and higher occupancy costs.

Outside services increased 15% driven by higher third-party legal and consulting costs. Even with these increases, the third quarter efficiency ratio remained solid at 53.7%. F.N.B. continues to actively manage capital to support balance sheet growth and optimize shareholder returns while appropriately managing risk. Share repurchases totaled $133 million for the first 3 quarters of 2026, more than 4x the amount repurchased in the same period of 2025 and well within our disciplined deployment strategy. Over $200 million in share repurchase authorization remained at quarter end. Our strong financial performance and profitability have enabled F.N.B. to increase share repurchase activity and still maintain solid capital levels, as evidenced by a CET1 ratio of 11.3% and TCE ratio of 8.7% at quarter end. Tangible book value per share increased modestly from last quarter even with the increased buyback activity and impact of rising interest rates on AOCI.

Let's now look at guidance for the full year of 2026. Our guidance is based on current expectations while remaining cognizant of the highly uncertain macroeconomic and geopolitical environment. We are maintaining our full year balance sheet guidance for spot balances denting period-end loans and deposits to grow mid-single digits on a full year basis.

Full year net interest income guidance has been revised to a range of $1.485 billion to $1.5 billion based upon results for the first 9 months of 2026 and our expectation for a continuation of heightened deposit competition within the industry. The noninterest income full year guide has been tightened to $370 million to $380 million. The full year guidance range for noninterest expense remains unchanged at $1.01 billion to $1.02 billion, with the results expected to be towards the higher end of the range.

We continue to expect strong positive operating leverage for full year 2026. Full year provision guidance has been revised to a range of $80 million to $90 million, down $5 million at the high end, given our favorable credit performance year-to-date and will be dependent on net loan growth charge-off activity in the last quarter. Lastly, the full year effective tax rate should be between 21% and 22%, which does not assume any investment tax credit activity that may occur.

With that, I will turn the call back to Vince.

Vincent J. Delie

F.N.B. continues to be an innovative leader in our industry, introducing tech forward digital and data solutions, including our proprietary eStore and common application. These tech innovations deliver convenient access to our products and services for our customers and allow us to serve as their trusted financial adviser. As evidenced by being named 1 of the world's best digital banks by Global Finance and a finalist for several of Fintech Futures Banking Tech Awards. We have created a platform that enhances our customer experience across our omnichannel network, enabling F.N.B. to continue to grow our share of wallet and expand customer primacy based upon positive outcomes for our clients.

Our technology-based competitive advantage will be further enhanced by the introduction of our proprietary Insight 360 platform. The AI-enabled customer aggregation and insight tool will provide our clients and bankers with the ability to optimize their broader banking relationship, all while consolidating their services with F.N.B. and contributing to improved household penetration.

Given our focus and investment in data capabilities, F.N.B. is one of the best positioned financial institutions to strategically leverage AI and data analytics to drive efficiency and accelerate revenue growth in an increasingly competitive landscape. Our ability to increase revenue, grow loans and deposits and expand market share has benefited greatly from these initiatives, and we are excited to deploy our newest capability.

By strategically investing in innovative technology to grow primary relationships and low-cost funding deposits while also maintaining a focus on expanding high-value fee-based businesses to diversify revenue streams, we are building a stronger, more resilient franchise. Our investments in these initiatives contributed to a strong third quarter performance and create sustainable value for the future.

With that, I would now like to turn the call over to the operator for questions.

Operator

[Operator Instructions] The first question today comes from Kelly Motta with KBW.

分析师问答

Kelly Motta

I think I might want to start off with your last comment about technology and layering in positive operating leverage. You guys were very committed to driving positive operating leverage this year. I mean clearly, some of these investments in technology have been helpful for that. As you think about the outlook ahead, I know it's a little early to start talking about '27, but based on your pipeline for investments and kind of just outlook for revenue growth, do you think that your investment should enable a continuation of the positive operating leverage we are poised to see for this year?

Vincent J. Delie

Yes. Sure. Thank you for the question, Kelly. We're very excited about the tech that we're rolling out. I don't know if I was excited enough in my prepared comments. But I sat through a demo yesterday of our Insight 360 tool, it is fantastic. I mean you're going to be able -- the customers are going to be able to aggregate all their banking relationships at one place, view transactions across various cards at various institutions, and we're going to be able to do a lot with AI and promos and it's going to help us tremendously drive household penetration here. So it's a very exciting time for us.

We spent a lot of time building this strategy out over the last 10 years. So the CapEx spend is kind of embedded in our guide for this year. And we are very optimistic about positive operating leverage moving forward I think it says a lot about the company. When you think about deployment of data science and AI relative to revenue generation and revenue opportunities, it's not as frequent. You do not see companies at this stage in the game talking about revenue. initiatives from an AI perspective because of the cost, but because we've started a long time ago, focused on data, data governance, building out the data infrastructure. We're in a much better position than others to capitalize on it from a revenue perspective. And then there are about 100 initiatives across the company where the utilization of AI to improve either efficiency or drive revenue are still on the docket.

Obviously, we've said this before, but we're not just going to jump in and tackle everything because the expense build, the CapEx spend and additional build and infrastructure and token utilization relative to data consumption is expensive.

So we're going to leg into it and take out what we think -- or accomplish the best opportunities, take out the expenses that are most notable or largest and then we're going to move in the same -- at the same time, parallel with our strategies on revenue generation and improving share of wallet within our customer base.

So the answer to the question is we have some great things coming out in the first quarter. We're on track to deliver Insight 360, the eStore Common App has been improved, and we continue to work on it to improve it over time. There's a migration down the road to enhancements to our mobile application in '27. There are some things coming at the end of '27. They're pretty interesting and cool and we're excited about all of that. And then we continue to invest in the wholesale bank we just started really digging into the processes and looking at ways to significantly improve turnaround times in the construction of underwriting documents and analysis.

So a lot of very exciting things, but I do not think that none of it really presents a barrier to us achieving positive operating leverage or performing at the same levels or better from an efficiency ratio perspective. So the fee income build too is exciting, and the departments that we launched, Corporate Finance, the investment banking initiative and public finance are taking off, too. So that should help the cause next year.

Vincent J. Calabrese

No, we have a very robust prioritization process, too, because it can't do everything at once. So really being very methodical in the investments that we're going after initially kind of those with higher value, maybe less cost to initiate to pursue. And then as we've done with new businesses, we kind of dig in. So we'll start with it and then expand it once it's kind of in place. Part of how we're funding that, too, is we have our cost savings target for the year for '26, $20 million. Some of that goes towards that. And then as we grow, this creates scale for us. So maybe don't have to add as many visions as we would otherwise we will still add but we want -- it gives us the ability to create scale as these initiatives that Vince was talking about are deployed. .

Kelly Motta

Got it. That's -- I appreciate all the color. That's super helpful. One more ticky-tacky question, and then I'll step back. You had really nice margin expansion this quarter, especially in light of the really strong balance sheet growth you had. Just wondering, part of that was cost of deposits were very well controlled. I'm wondering what the incremental cost of funding is coming on at? And maybe if you have a spot rate at the end of the quarter, that would also be helpful.

Vincent J. Calabrese

Yes. I would say, I mean, from a pricing standpoint, if we look at our overall funding, the CDs are a key part of that, of course, the rates that we're bringing those on in the month of September came on at like a 3.22 rate. Now our best rate is a 4.15 rate for kind of our most attractive product that we have, which is a 13-month CD. One of the things we did kind of strategically is put the best rate on a longer-term CD. If you go back a little bit, we were focusing on kind of 5- and 7-month CD. So we have that 4.15 on the 13 months is really our acquisition strategy, a product that we're using.

But even with that, so that helps with new accounts. The blend overall is at that 3.22 what we brought in, in the month of September. So we're not bringing everything on it that 4.15. So the 3.22 is a good reference point. The noninterest-bearing deposit growth even with a very strong deposit growth is still held at 26%. So having that mix of noninterest bank deposits is key to kind of the overall cost of funds. And as we've talked about in the past, we have a very rigorous process. We have weekly pricing every Monday at 4:00, we have deposit strategy meetings once or twice a month to talk about where we want to be priced. The goal that we've had for a while is to grow volume but also manage the cost side very diligently. So I think that was worked well this quarter.

Vincent J. Delie

The key is client primacy, the noninterest-bearing deposits. We've had great success maintaining that 26% threshold even with the growth. And that's directly correlated to the strategies that we've deployed to be the principal bank for our clients. So less gimmicks, more hand-to-hand combat, bringing over customers that actually produce. You have float and rebalances that helps bring those costs down. As you know, we've been pretty competitive and we've grown market share across the footprint. If you look at the FDIC data that came out, we have significant market share expansion relative to the markets overall. I guess on a relative basis, with the market shrinking, we were still able to expand, let's say it that way.

So I think we've had really good performance .80% of our markets were in the top 10%, 30% were in the top 3 in terms of deposit share. So we're we continue to work on improving that and have had great success both commercially and from a consumer perspective in these markets. 50% in the top 5 and good, strong performance across the board from a deposit perspective.

So what excites me the most is the Insight 360 tool and what it's going to enable us to do in terms of identifying deposit opportunities within our customer base and using our insights and data analytics tools to drive promos to move that money to F.N.B. That, to me, is very exciting.

Operator

SP1.

The next question comes from David Smith with Truist Securities.

David Smith

Starting off on credit. You had a really good quarter for net charge-offs, but the NPL and delinquency ratio has picked up slightly. Was there anything suppressing the charge-off rate in the quarter, like a big recovery or anything or anything that led you to elevate that reserve build? Just trying to get a better sense of what we might expect for the fourth quarter provisions since the range there is pretty wide right now.

Gary L. Guerrieri

Yes, David. The quarter was really very pure, nothing from a large recovery standpoint. We just had really solid performance from a loss perspective across all of our portfolios, and that really drove the 12 basis points that we saw there. .

And as it relates to the delinquency, it was up 4 basis points. We do see some seasonality usually in this third quarter with vacations and whatnot. We've seen it over time. So it's a few basis points. No changes in the performance of those portfolios. And when you're driving metrics at these levels, which are near historical low levels for us, you're going to have a few basis point movements here and there just in the normal course of business. But all said, really strong performance across the portfolio throughout the whole quarter.

David Smith

And then you're kind of already at mid-single loan growth from the fourth quarter of 25% as of the third quarter, but deposit balances still have a ways to go. Can you remind us just on either side of the balance sheet, anything we should be thinking about from a seasonality perspective going into the fourth quarter?

I know you've got the public funds balances that can move around in the second half.

Vincent J. Calabrese

Yes. There's still some continued seasonal growth on the municipal side. I mean there was a nice surge in the third quarter. That usually continues through October, November. As we've talked about, we have a pipeline over $1 billion that's being actively pursued on the deposit side for new relationships. So that's kind of part of our thinking as to what's in there. The range mid-single digits is pretty broad. So we'd be at the lower end of mid-single digits, if you do the math as far as the deposit growth, but it's still pretty strong deposit growth.

Vincent J. Delie

And by the way, in public finance, we are the principal bank. So we do not go after the money market offerings or compete on CDs or we have to be the principal disbursement bank to get the noninterest-bearing deposits to drive the returns in that business, just to be clear. .

So what happens is we're the operating bank, there are cash outflows that happen pre add the [indiscernible] collection. So the balances shrink. And then over time, they surge back in -- and you can see it's supported across the board because the deposit mix stayed consistent. So what Vince is saying is we continue to see that into -- late into the fourth quarter.

So last quarter, we kind of got penalized because there were delays in it. This quarter, everybody discounts it because they say, well, it's seasonal, it is what it is. So those are deposit -- it is deposit balance growth -- and it is across the board and we are the principal treasury management bank. I just want to make sure -- I'm clear on that because Vince keeps talking about municipal deposits. This is not a function of going after the high-priced deposits.

David Smith

Right. That's helpful. Vince Calabrese, hear you right, that you're thinking that deposits will probably be on the lower end of mid-single digits for the fourth quarter?

Vincent J. Calabrese

Yes, that's exactly what I said. If you just look at the range from us, based on the growth in the third quarter, what we expect for the fourth quarter. And the more wins we get for new business, its gets higher into the middle of that range. So I mean, there's opportunity right in the middle of it. It all depends on our success bringing in new accounts. .

Operator

The next question comes from Daniel Tamayo with Raymond James.

Daniel Tamayo

Maybe just digging into the loan growth side. So first on the C&I side, really strong growth again in the third quarter. You talked about, I think it was just mentioned that you're basically already at the guidance and the midpoint of the guidance range for the year. But just curious, kind of, and you had utilization down in the third quarter. Just curious how you see pipelines and expectations for C&I loan growth kind of near term?

And then if you think there's any -- if you're seeing anything or anticipating any impact from the increase in rates?

Vincent J. Delie

Yes. I think a couple of things. First of all, I do think we've had good solid C&I performance across the board. It's coming from areas that we wouldn't have normally expected to come from, too. So we're seeing good client expansion in our more rural areas that we cover, more traditional areas where manufacturing might be a little represent a little bit more of the GDP coming out of these markets like read what we call our Northwest market, which is permitted share and [indiscernible] into Youngstown, Ohio. So we're starting to see some decent growth there in those areas. And then the central part of the state, where Penn State is located, there's a big -- that's a big market for us. It's a pretty big geography, but we've had great success there. We have good leadership there and probably 1 of our best teams, I mean, end-to-end, real all the way through to commercial.

As you know, we won the Penn State business. So everyone's pretty excited about that. So there's a lot of activity there, and it shows in the numbers as we move throughout the year. So they both have good solid pipelines. Cleveland hasn't performed in the past few years is starting to come back pretty significantly. Pittsburgh is pretty solid. The Mid-Atlantic region, there's a lot of activity in the DC area that we're seeing. So there's a lot of good activity for us there. Baltimore is coming around. And the Carolinas, the we've had some transition in Raleigh. We've just hired a terrific leader in Raleigh and recruited some really good bankers have some bankers in the queue.

So we're looking forward to getting that turned around with strong leadership and Charlotte's performed pretty well. Charleston, South Carolina is performer from a commercial loan perspective, and we expect that to continue. We've expanded across most of South Carolina. We have plans to build branches in markets that we weren't in through acquisition like [indiscernible] Greenville were on our third branch, I think, right?

So we're getting some additional penetration there. So we're very excited and optimistic about it. I think we have a pretty large C&I pipeline. The short-term pipeline anyway moving into the fourth quarter. So we're feeling pretty good about that with some fairly large funded deals that are coming. Equipment finance continues to perform very, very well. obviously, because of the tax law changes and strong leadership there for us. Good team, we've seen some pretty outsized growth in those portfolios relative to historical levels, and that continues. So that should help drive us. From an interest rate perspective, I don't think that even though rates have spiked, prime sitting a little higher today than it has been in the last few years. But I've not seen that as a barrier to CapEx spend, to be honest.

I mean, the economy seems to be ripping. I know there are certain things that you look at and you worry about inflation and other things. But from a CapEx spending perspective, maybe some of its data centers and a good bit of it is but there's a ripple effect. Manufacturing is taking off in a number of these markets, so there's some considerable CapEx spend, and we would expect that to continue. into next year. I don't know, Gary, do you have anything you want to add?

Gary L. Guerrieri

I think you covered it, Vince. I mean, the pipeline is robust. It is diverse across all the markets, which Vince kind of touched on. Interest rates moving up a quarter, I don't think has a significant impact. The key question is, where is it all going? I think you'll see some significant CapEx spend here before the end of the year from a tax perspective. And we're seeing opportunities. It's [indiscernible]

Vincent J. Delie

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Gary L. Guerrieri

We're at 182 from a CRE standpoint. I think we talked about it at the last quarter's call. We're moving towards that inflection point. The opportunities are starting to increase in that space. We're seeing some very nice opportunities, solid equity positions with really top-tier clients, and we expect that to be productive as we move into 2027.

Vincent J. Delie

Where I see a tougher road to hoe would be in the mortgage business moving forward with higher rates, that's going to be a headwind for mortgage. Go ahead, Vince.

Vincent J. Calabrese

Yes, vince is right. We'll probably see some headwinds in mortgage, but our mortgage business is very different from the other banks. It's primarily purchase. It's much less dependent on refi. We actually did an analysis a couple of weeks ago looking at the correlation to mortgage originations to rates. Our correlation is less than 1% right? Whereas the mortgage industry is over 97%.

Vincent J. Delie

We do have an advantage in the purchase money strategy, and it shows statistically. We're well ahead of the the industry in terms of originations for purchase money.

Vincent J. Calabrese

And the great thing about our mortgage business is that it brings new clients to our our bank. They tend to be younger. We focus a lot on our physicians program, which makes them a good portion of our portfolio mortgage. And with that, that brings us to deposits, its brings direct deposits, its brings primary accounts and the like. So to Vince's point, none of the stuff is rocket science, but it's hard.

Vincent J. Delie

I think the aggregation tool that we deployed in the consumer space and the consumer app is also going to help us on the loan side. I've been focusing on deposits, but we're going to be able to look at aggregated loan balances within our customer base and provide promotional offers to get them to refinance with us or outright analyze the implied interest rate and try to work with them to provide them with a product that maybe works a little better for them.

The bundling is another thing that we're working on. So there's a lot of very exciting things, Danny, and I -- so loan growth, I'm not that concerned about a loan-to-deposit ratio of 92%, the concentration in CRE of 180% is pretty solid for us. So there's a lot of opportunity moving into next year that hinges on more of a geopolitical and economic environment than an F.N.B. -- lack of F.N.B., opportunity let's put it that way.

Daniel Tamayo

That's terrific color. I appreciate all of that from everyone. And maybe a follow-up on credit for Gary. It sounds like you're saying things are still pretty good, even though the charge-off rate was still kind of low in the third quarter. And I think did you make a comment that there are some resolutions you're expecting in the fourth quarter that might bring that up higher in terms of charge-offs and then kind of a higher level similar to the loan growth side.

Just curious on your thoughts on what these rates here and maybe a bit higher if we get another hike in December could mean for how you're thinking about overall credit quality.

Gary L. Guerrieri

Yes. Just to clarify my prepared remarks. In terms of the resolutions that I referenced, so criticized loans were up slightly, 40 basis points during the quarter. We already have expected upgrades and payoffs without any charge-offs, no charge-offs relating to that, that will reduce that slight increase back to a net 0 position.

So that's what I was referencing, Daniel, in reference to the expected resolutions. Again, those resolutions are occurring here early in the quarter with no charge-offs expected from that group of transactions that I referenced -- what was the other part of the question?

Daniel Tamayo

Just the impact of higher rates on kind of longer-term critic quality?

Gary L. Guerrieri

Okay. Yes, sure. In terms of the rate environment, -- we've not seen any impact at this point. Naturally, it's only 25 basis points, and it's early.

In terms of our CRE portfolio, our maturity walls during the fourth quarter, we'll have about $0.5 billion that will be looking at from a renewal standpoint. As we look back over the last 12 to 18 months, generally speaking, about half of that is just paying off in a normal course of business, half of it is being extended. The majority of that extended on a long-term basis because it's a solid project that needed a little more time. Very little of it is being extended on a short -- extremely short-term basis because we're concerned about those particular projects.

As we look to '27, [indiscernible] $400 million a quarter to come up from a maturity loss standpoint. And we're all over the credits due to what we've all been through from an industry standpoint with CRE over the last 3 to 4 years or so. And there's nothing in there that's overly concerning to us at this point. So we're not expecting the current rate environment to impact our portfolio.

Shocks of 100 to 150 basis points would cause some issues, I think, across the industry, but we've been very successful in working through that as you've seen over the last 3 to 4 years, and we feel very confident that our portfolio will perform through any uptick in rates.

Operator

The next question comes from Casey Haire with Autonomous Research. .

Casey Haire

I wanted to follow up on the deposit costs. The spot -- I'm not sure if I missed the spot deposit cost at 9.30. And then just some updated thoughts on where -- what cumulative beta expectations you guys are thinking about versus, I think it was 38% during the last cycle on a total basis and 53% on an interest bearing.

Vincent J. Calabrese

Yes. I would say regarding the beta, Casey, I mean the the last cycle is a good reference point to have the kind of the 30 to 40. If you look at the last year, we were 40% for total deposits through that last up cycle.

I mean it's a good reference point to use. I mean, we're very early in this cycle. And as we've done -- we've done a very nice job managing the deposit cost side of things. So over this next cycle, who knows how long it's going to last. Right? But I think just for reference, history is probably just a good reference point to have out there. As far as the deposit costs or the average for the month of September, -- $179, $240 kind of total and interest-bearing for the average for the month of September.

Casey Haire

Okay. Great. Excellent. And then just wanted to circle back on the loan growth pipeline. So it's -- after a good quarter, it sounds like pipelines are robust, and you guys have a lot of confidence that another hike won't won't slow down loan growth. But at what point -- because there are 3 hikes in the curve currently, at what point does the -- does that policy start to impact loan growth? Because we are hearing anecdotes where commercial borrowers are starting to [indiscernible] at some of the price they have to pay for capital.

Vincent J. Delie

Yes. I mean we don't play in the higher risk space. So if we were in left in, for example, it would cause delays. It would cause people to say, hey, I can't accept the leverage. I can't make the debt service payments. We're not in high LTV, high-velocity real estate transactions. So that's an area where it would impact. So really have to drill into the portfolio. I've said it for a long time, Gary and his team are excellent. They're very conservative. We take returns that are where there's measured risk, and we feel confident that the ability to repay is there.

Most of our borrowers engage in some sort of swap or derivatives to fix the rate. So as you noticed, we got the benefit from the SOFR elevation. Vince was right. I wanted to tell him, he forecasted SOFR to the penny. I don't know if you remember the last call, you should look at the transcript.

But basically, -- its true.

Daniel Tamayo

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Vincent J. Delie

I -- we've been rubbing the driving his head like trying to get -- figure out where rates are going. But like Vince, tell us what's happening next. But I think those are the businesses that are going to suffer the most. -- that's where you're going to see delays in CapEx spend, maybe pull back from lenders that aren't going to accept a thinner debt service coverage.

I think in our book, we're pretty -- most of the companies that we deal with have substantial cash flow and significant debt service coverage. So the interest rate environment is a factor. I mean, they're going to take it into consideration, but it's not going to stop them from moving forward on something that's going to benefit them in the long run. And if you look at what's happening with investment in the United States, there's billions of dollars flowing in. The current administration talks about it, but it is for real. I know the media doesn't really cover it much, but over $20 billion in -- I think it's $20 billion -- might be $20 trillion, right? I can't remember the number. It's huge right? There's -- no it's $20 billion, $20 billion of investment coming into the United States, not just in data centers, but kind of across a broad spectrum of industries. Ultimately, that leads to expansion of manufacturing capabilities and and the need for CapEx spend. So I think that, that is a positive, right, especially for the businesses that we lend to.

Gary L. Guerrieri

Casey, the other thing that I would add, we're pretty aggressive on the origination side of things from an underwriting perspective with shock rates. We'll shock these underwriting to 300 and 400 basis points. And I'm sure that's happening across the industry. We probably pay more attention to that than most in our credit selection. So we have a built-in cushion there pretty much across the board that is important to us. So I think that helps through cycles.

Vincent J. Delie

And that goes back to what I said earlier, Gary, because those shocks wouldn't work. if you have a highly levered transaction and you're trying to and you do a pro forma and you're shocking interest rates 300 basis, typically they don't carry debt service. So that underwriting methodology is automatically going to eliminate borrowers that essentially may be pulling back at this stage of the game, right? Or could work trigger defaults, right? If you've already put them on the books. Anyway. Gary does a great job and his team is terrific, Tom and Gary and we benefited from that for a long time, continue to. Anything else, Case?

Operator

The next question comes from Russell Gunther with Stephens.

Unknown Analyst

This is Nick filling in for Russell and I wanted to start off on fees. Last quarter, I believe you guys highlighted investment banking, treasury and wealth areas that should support fee growth in the second half. And given the 3Q performance, how are you guys thinking about the composition of that roughly $94 million implied 4Q fee contribution? And -- are there any areas that are now tracking differently from what you expected coming into the quarter?

Vincent J. Delie

Well, I mean, we had a surge in derivative activity after the quarter. So unfortunately, the timing wasn't great for this quarter, but for next quarter, that bodes well. So we had some fairly substantial derivative fee income that rolled in, in the last week or so. I think -- I don't know. It's hard to forecast where that goes from here because we saw a big jump in rates, right, from the last Fed increase.

So I would suspect that anybody that's looking to fix a rate should be considering it given the outlook for at least 50% of their debt. So that -- we're pretty optimistic about that. We got several investment banking opportunities in the queue, public finance and corporate finance that should help there. We're doing really well from a TM perspective with treasury management fees and merchant fee income, working to optimize interchange, so there's upside interchange.

So I think when we look at it, -- we've got a good -- we gave you the guide because we feel confident that we can deliver, and that's what we're going to try to do.

Vincent J. Calabrese

Yes. I would add too. If you look at it from a PPNR standpoint, the modest increase you saw second to third quarter, which is a couple of things. First of all, in the second quarter, we had much higher residual gains in our equipment finance business like $3.7 million. So that was in other income kind of 2Q to 3Q that is kind of lumpy. You don't have that every quarter.

And then if you go through kind of the components. So the fee income, that push the income was the main driver were not being up more. The capital markets decrease reflected. We had record level of debt capital markets in the second quarter. The move in interest rates delayed swap execution, as Vince talked about, we have a good start to the fourth quarter. But with rates moving up, some customers decided to hold off on swaps, they were looking to execute Mortgage banking had impacts from higher rates on production as well as fair value impacts that affected the third quarter figure.

And then if you kind of look ahead and why we're confident in hitting the PPNR number the fourth quarter, there are several things. Loans and deposits on a spot basis were $400 million, $700 million higher than the average balance. So that gives you a good start from a net interest income standpoint to the fourth quarter. The full quarter benefit of loan repricing to SOFR as well as primary change that happened in mid-September to get a full quarter's benefit of that.

In the investment portfolio, reinvesting 200 to 250 basis points higher than where rates are rolling off. And then we do expect to be bounce back like Vince commented on in capital markets as well as mortgage capital markets has a very strong pipeline. And then expenses overall is in our guidance expected to decrease. We had some inflated legal costs, fraud losses elevated, we have a SWAT team going after that to bring that number back down, new leadership in our financial crimes unit and then the down payment assistance component. Those are 3 kind of chunky things that will lessen as you go into the fourth quarter.

So if you roll all that up, well, I know people commented on the PPNR miss in the third quarter, but we're confident in having a nice rebound in that in the fourth quarter. And for the full year, the PPNR growth is nice and the operating leverage is very strong.

Operator

The next question comes from Terry McEvoy with Wells Fargo.

Terence McEvoy

Market expectations have changed over the last couple of months in terms of what the Fed is expected to do with rates? How has that impacted your asset liability positioning? And how are you evaluating derivatives to either protect capital or protect net interest income?

Vincent J. Calabrese

Yes. I would say we continue to manage our asset liability position to fairly new to or a little bit asset sensitive right now. I think it's really very little change Q2 and Q3. We'll continue to manage that way.

Terence McEvoy

And then I thought your comments on the manufacturing sector driving the C&I growth where it was insightful. Was that specific industry verticals you're focused on? Was that some of the markets or maybe some of the investments coming into the country that was mentioned a few minutes ago?

Vincent J. Delie

Well, I think it's -- there's a lot of it is coming through in the equipment finance business early, right? So the first thing that happens is the companies go out and start to procure equipment to deal with increasing demand. We're seeing that. And there's an incentive bonus depreciation to do it quickly. So there was a surge and that type of investment, usually that's a precursor to overall large CapEx investment.

So I think that's to follow. I don't even think we've seen it yet. So we're starting to see it emerge. The supply chain for these industries is pretty deep automotive. The -- even the data centers that are being built, they're structural steel components. There's all kinds of stuff. It goes into building these data centers and there's quite a bit of new construction going on across the Southeast, the light manufacturing facilities, owner-occupied facilities, expansion of owner-occupied. In the supply chain for a variety of industries, there's a ripple effect. So it kind of ripples through the manufacturing sector. So we're seeing benefits across the board.

And then transportation remains strong even though there are periods where and flows. It seems like it's still coming back pretty strong. So at least our clients are doing pretty well. So I think that all bodes well for us moving into next year, barring some, like I said before, some crazy geopolitical or economic scenario.

Gary L. Guerrieri

Yes. Just to add to Vince's comments, the manufacturing space has always been important to us organizationally. It's what we've all done for our banking careers from Vince all the way through our -- many of our bankers. And so we hold a good position there. We understand the business, and we have a lot of clients that we have banked for many, many years over the course of our careers, and it continues to be a really, really key segment for us moving forward. .

Operator

The next question comes from Timur Braziler with UBS.

Timur Braziler

Going back to some of the fee income comments. I think, Vince, you had called out that you were lead left on a pretty large public finance deal. Was that in 3Q or 4Q?

And then I guess maybe more broadly, as you're thinking about the investment banking rollout public finance, I think last time we spoke, you guys mentioned that are both kind of in the first inning of the build-out there. Just what does that trajectory look like? And is there incremental investments that need to take place within some of these fee income verticals to get them up to where they ultimately get to?

Vincent J. Delie

Yes, those are great questions. The public finance transaction were less lead occurs in the fourth quarter. So it has not closed yet. -- we want the business, we won the mandate, which we were excited about. But we've already closed several large transactions where we were a participant in the bond offering. So we benefited from the economics of issuing debt, and that should continue into the fourth quarter.

There are others that were other larger deals that are coming that we're going to be part of the syndicate. So we'll benefit there in public finance.

If you look at investment banking, our team that we hired basically is only now starting to make penetration into the customer base. So -- we're starting to see some really good leads coming out. I was on a call last week where there was tremendous opportunity for us to partner with 1 of our clients who's acquisitive. There's going to be continued opportunities there without a lot of added expense.

In public finance, there's some build-out that has to occur from a sales and trading perspective as we continue to evolve and grow. But as we've said before, our plan is to generate revenue and leg into the build-out. So the or the investments, let's say, not necessarily CapEx but personnel investment that goes into those areas, we should be able to handle within our efficiency ratio guide. And I think it's because we're balancing revenue, right, with the addition of personnel, and we've been able to do that with a pretty thin staff to date. And that's how we've grown most of our business...

Vincent J. Calabrese

National banking is a good case for case for them, right? I mean, it's consistently a couple of million dollars a quarter, and we started that from scratch and add to it as we grew.

Vincent J. Delie

So it started with 1 person. So we have all of our businesses were not, we're not going to launch. We're not a huge investment bank. We're going to bring in a lot of people and put them on the bench and tell them to generate revenue. We're kind of legging into this based upon opportunities.

Vincent J. Calabrese

We've done that with 11 businesses now, starting from scratch and grew it.

Vincent J. Delie

So significant increase in noninterest income over time is attributed to those 11 businesses because we shrunk the consumer fee income significantly during that same period. Right? We've grown the number of clients. If you look at the fees per account, they're down with overdraft fees and other things declining. So we've been able to do a pretty good job of creating a very diverse set of businesses that generate high-value fee income.

And if you go back, I think if we go back 15 years, right, $160 million up to where we are today. So it seems to work.

Vincent J. Calabrese

And if you look at Page 17 of our investor deck and you look at where the contribution of fee income are, they're largely demonstrating with our clients, right? It's transaction charges, it's wealth management. And if you look over time, we've been able to do this without meaningfully increasing our efficiency ratio, right? These are historically higher efficiency ratio of businesses, but by virtue of a lot of the expense management that you've seen over years, I mean this is now 10 years now, the efficiency ratio has really maintained over time.

And there's 1 other -- we started another boutique business within the wealth segment itself because we're now going to support family offices with our high net worth team. So there's some opportunity there as well, but Alfred is right. I mean we've been able to maintain the efficiency ratio. These typically are -- they're higher return businesses, but they have an impact on the efficiency ratio. -- because there's a larger expense burden associated with personnel that are brought with compensation, variable compensation and base compensation.

So we've been able to manage that very well over a long period of time. Anyway, I hope that answers your question,?

Timur Braziler

No, that's good color. I appreciate all that. And then maybe just another one on the mortgage portfolio. It's been a couple of quarters now where the commentary has been that it's either slowing or more of that is going to maybe get sold into the secondary market and the growth there still remains pretty robust. Is the thought here that concentration stays at around 30% and that business line grows alongside some of the commercial verticals or maybe as CRE comes back online, either production slows or more of that is sold off?

Vincent J. Delie

No, I think the percentage will decline over time simply because we're going to outgenerate others in deposits, and we're going to deploy those deposits into our C&I and other categories. So I think as a percentage, to your point, this should decline just by the nature of the opportunities that exist out there for us. .

I think the mortgage business for us, the stuff that's going on the balance sheet is very high quality for the most part, very high-quality mortgage loans that super high credit scores, a lot of physicians loans are coming on, putting them on the balance sheet, right, because they have certain special aspects to the offering.

But outside of that, I would expect us to continue to move performing mortgage loans and service them. So we would expect that to continue. And moving into a purchase money environment like we are, that will happen more frequently. So the margins will be a little thinner because interest rates went up so significantly. So selling a mortgage loan servicing retain, but you're going to get a lower margin than you would have in the lower rate environment.

But nonetheless, our goal is to move it off the balance sheet. We also periodically look at portfolios to sell. So some banks have announced big sales. We do little bites.If you go back and look, you'll see we package up a small portfolio and sell it. And that's happened pretty regularly over the last 7, 8 years. And that continues to be our plan. We constantly evaluating a single household mortgage loans, anything that doesn't fit our franchise footprint or we don't see opportunities to grow with the customer, we'll package it up and sell it post close once it's on the balance sheet.

So we don't rule that out either.

Vincent J. Calabrese

There's also some seasonality that drives that percentage up with the physicians program. So we keep those on balance sheet, and that kind of moves the percentage up. One other factor, too, the commercial real estate has talked about, we've been having payoffs that's been kind of running down when that turns, that will move that back up and will also affect the concentration from a mortgage perspective.

Vincent J. Delie

That was the point Timur has raised Yes. Maintain this given the changes that are coming with loan demand. And I would say it comes down as a percentage...

Vincent J. Calabrese

More like [indiscernible]

Operator

The next question comes from Manuel Navas with Piper Sandler.

Manuel Navas

The midpoint in the NII for next quarter implies pretty continued strong NIM expansion. Can you talk a little bit more in depth about the near-term NIM dynamics. Do you have a September NIM as well? .

Vincent J. Calabrese

Yes. September NIM was within a basis point of the quarter. It was 3.28%. The quarter was 3.29%. So pretty much in line with that. I would take into our guidance is the margin going up kind of gradually in the low to mid-single digits kind of movement in margin kind of third quarter to fourth quarter. .

And the items that I mentioned before, you're going to get the full quarter benefit of the repricing that occurred in the middle of September, plus so we're getting higher in the 3.90, 3.93, I think it was yesterday, that affects -- we get the full quarter's benefit of that. So that also kind of feeds into that.

Manuel Navas

And there's still some seasonality in deposit flows that -- and the pipeline for commercial is still pretty strong, too. So there's some potential deposit to help as well.

Vincent J. Calabrese

Yes. And as I mentioned, too, the spot balance is being significantly above the average for the quarter, particularly on the loan side to drive net interest income is also a factor in the investment any reinvestment on the securities portfolio, which is like I said 200 to 250 says probably 250 basis points above where securities are rolling off.

Manuel Navas

Okay. We've talked about the CRE balances kind of churning at sub wane. Can you just remind us some of the dynamics there? And what timing do you think that, that could start building again?

Gary L. Guerrieri

Yes. Emmanuel, in terms of where we sit today with expected moves out of the portfolio into the secondary market, -- we actually look at Q4 as right now being a little less than originally expected. We've had a few transactions click over the calendar year-end into the first quarter. I would say early in 2027, you will see the lines cross over there, and we'll start to start to see that balance move in the other direction to the positive side of that equation.

Manuel Navas

Okay. I appreciate that. And then my last question here is kind of a refresh on capital deployment priorities. CET1 is still really strong. Could the buyback accelerate here? Or -- and what could get you to become interested in M&A? Just some comments on capital deployment at this current moment.

Vincent J. Delie

I think as we look at deploying capital, we continue to maintain the same strategy, which is to do what we think is best from an earn-back perspective and accretion perspective. So we are focused on a couple of things. You've seen a big pickup in our buyback activity because we have capital, we get flexibility.

To do that, we increased the dividend a quarter or so ago. So I think there's room to do things. From an M&A perspective, if we find something that was accretive to capital accretive to earnings and didn't hurt our deposit mix and provided really big IRRs or we will look at a deal with an earn-back that's reasonable.

But as far as I'm concerned, there's not as much as people think out there that is attractive and we built a very attractive franchise, and it's performing extraordinarily well from an organic growth perspective. And we continue to invest in our capabilities to take share from larger competitors, smaller ones alike. And we are going to continue to ride that train, right? If something came along that looked good fit was accretive, we're like some of the smaller deals that we did in the last few years, that makes a lot of sense to us. We would look at it.

But again, this is all being looked at relative to the absolute best deployment of capital with the highest returns and the best outcome for the shareholders interest. One has to go.

And I think that a key point is it gives us optionality. [indiscernible] adjusted CET1 ratio is higher than the stated CET1 ratio for a lot of the banks that reported already. Right? And then Basel III -- in game probably adds some pick up there as well. So we've got a lot of capital flexibility. We've seen us deploy that into lending, which just on a sense deploy that into buybacks and dividends. And I think that's a reflection of the capital generation capability of the organization.

So as investors, you'll see a ton of optionality that we have by virtue of the business model. But I think we haven't changed our philosophy, I guess that's what I'm saying, it' still the same.

Vincent J. Calabrese

Yes. Just to put the buy backs in some context, right? So for the first 9 months, we repurchased $133 million and last year it was $32 million, we did $51 million is quarter. I think it continues to be very attractive to stock than it was where we were buying in the third quarter. So clearly, there's opportunity to continue to be active on the buyback side.

Operator

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The next question comes from Brian Martin with Brean Capital.

Brian Martin

Just a couple of follow-ups, I guess, just from what you guys have said. On the loan outlook, sounds like the outlook heading into next year -- this fourth quarter and next year is more C&I and CRE focused? Is that kind of that's leading the charge that's accurate. Just make sure I understand what you're saying there.

Gary L. Guerrieri

I would agree with that, Brian. Yes.

Brian Martin

Got you. Okay. And then just on, I guess, Vince calibrated, I guess, just on the margin, I think just in general, can you just remind us, given the -- I know you're preliminary given you haven't given guidance for at least outlook for next year, but just the impact of the potential rate hikes and how you're thinking about those as you look into 2027?

Vincent J. Calabrese

Just build off what Scott said earlier. I mean from an interest rate risk standpoint, we're at slightly asset sensitive, but pretty close to neutral. So the impact really as you look ahead into next year, it's not material. .

Brian Martin

Got you. Okay. Just confirming that. And then just, Vince, the new loan mods, you talked about deposits, but just where are new loans coming on today, if you can, I guess, broadly comment on that?

Vincent J. Calabrese

Yes. For the month of September, they came on at 570, which is 13 basis points higher than the portfolio yield. So that was the Level 4 for the month of September. .

Brian Martin

Okay. And are they better for the C&I and CRE that are going to lead, I guess, potentially that the growth is, are they better on those, I guess, the yield there? How are those versus kind of that average for the September?

Vincent J. Calabrese

[indiscernible] quarter. So I don't want to get that precise. .

Brian Martin

Yes, yes. Okay. I got you. And then did you say, Vince, maybe I misunderstood you. I think you commented somewhere there about a rebound in mortgage. I didn't know if that was in relation to fee income and kind of gain on sale line or maybe just -- if that's -- I guess what I was wondering on just to clarify that into fourth quarter.

Vincent J. Calabrese

Yes. No, just fee income moving up from third quarter level, not materially, but that it would bounce back up from where it was in the third quarter. The other element to your initial question, Brian, too, is on the commercial real estate the rates on those that are paying off are higher. So that's the headwind to margins that when that turns, as Gary commented, that also will be additive from a margin standpoint.

Brian Martin

Right. Okay. That's what I was asking. And then just last 1 for me. I think, Gary, given the uptick in rates here, I guess any industries, obviously, credit is great, and your team has done a great job. Just any areas you're watching more closely today from a credit standpoint as you look into the next couple of quarters or into next year?

Gary L. Guerrieri

Yes. I mean, naturally, the CRE maturity wall quarter-by-quarter outlook is 1 that we watch very closely because interest rate movements can impact values and can impact debt surplus coverages. So that's something that we're constantly all over. Naturally, the commercial C&I borrowers get impacted as well, primarily the smaller business clients can see some more impact from that.

So it's part of our management of risk across the portfolio when interest rates start changing. And we're looking at each and every portfolio on a regular basis, Brian, to stay ahead of that.

So again, just a focus of the team in managing the risk on a day-to-day basis, and we'll continue to do that as we have.

Operator

The next question comes from Kelly Motta with KBW.

Kelly Motta

I have a really quick follow-up. Just a minor point of clarification from the transcript thus far. The comment about deposits being on the lower end of the mid-single-digit range. Was that a comment about the full year or indeed a comment about Q4?

Vincent J. Calabrese

Yes. No, the mid-single-digit guide, what I'm saying is the range that would imply. So kind of normal activity gets you to the low end of that range, but we have a variety of initiatives. We have a very strong treasury management pipeline. We have a variety of initiatives on the retail side to drive additional deposits. So the more successful we are on those, you get more into the kind of the mid of the mid-single digits. So that was what I was saying. It's probably confusing the way that I said it.

Operator

This concludes our question-and-answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Vince Delie for any closing remarks.

Vincent J. Delie

Thank you, everybody. Really appreciate the questions, a lot of very detailed questions. And I'd like to congratulate our team and thank everybody. We had a whole village here presenting to you. Everybody chipped in, and I appreciate that. We've got a very good strong leadership team across the company, and we have a group of people here. They That are very capable of driving the business that we have and answering these questions. So we're lucky to have him here.

But thank you for your interest, and we appreciate you participating in the call. Thank you.

Operator

The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.

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