Growth in NII and fee income, lower provisions and higher loan and deposit balances support Capital One's Q4 earnings.
Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE:COF ) Q4 2024 Earnings Conference Call January 21, 2025 4:30 PM ET Company Participants Jeff Norris - Senior Vice President, Finance Andrew Young - Chief Financial Officer Richard Fairbank - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Conference Call Participants Ryan Nash - Goldman Sachs Terry Ma - Barclays Rick Shane - J.P. Morgan John Pancari - Evercore ISI Mihir Bhatia - Bank of America Bill Carcache - Wolfe Research Securities Moshe Orenbuch - TD Cowen Don Fandetti - Wells Fargo Sanjay Sakhrani - KBW John Hecht - Jefferies Operator Good day, and thank you for standing by.
Capital One's fourth quarter results, released after the market closed on Tuesday (Jan. 21), indicated that consumers continue to spend on their cards, and stripping out one-time items, credit performance was flat along several metrics. The company's earnings supplementals revealed that card purchase volumes surged by 7% to $172.9 billion.
While the top- and bottom-line numbers for Capital One (COF) give a sense of how the business performed in the quarter ended December 2024, it could be worth looking at how some of its key metrics compare to Wall Street estimates and year-ago values.
Capital One (COF) came out with quarterly earnings of $3.09 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.66 per share. This compares to earnings of $2.24 per share a year ago.
Banking services and credit card giant Capital One Financial (COF 1.17%) reported mixed fourth-quarter results on Tuesday, Jan. 21. The company's adjusted EPS of $3.09 exceeded consensus estimates of $2.83, showing a substantial rise from $1.67 in the previous year.
Capital One Financial reported a 60% rise in fourth-quarter profit on Tuesday, as a higher income from interests helped the consumer lender.
Higher NII and fee income are likely to support COF's fourth-quarter 2024 results, while higher expenses and provisions are likely to weigh on it.
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Capital One warned customers Thursday it is experiencing a technical outage affecting account services, deposits and payment processing.