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AI brief of an SEC Form 8-K · First Commonwealth Financial (FCF)

First Commonwealth Q1 EPS $0.37, down from $0.44 in Q4 but up from $0.30 a year earlier

Mixed Impact 3 of 5 earnings Written later

First Commonwealth reported first-quarter 2024 net income of $37.5 million, or $0.37 per diluted share, up from $0.30 a year earlier but down from $0.44 in the fourth quarter of 2023. The company also raised its quarterly cash dividend 4.0% to $0.13 per share, payable May 17, 2024. Net interest income fell from the prior quarter, and the release attributes the sequential profit decline mainly to a 13 basis point drop in net interest margin.

Key points

  • Net income of $37.5 million, or $0.37 per diluted share, for the quarter ended March 31, 2024, versus $44.8 million ($0.44) in Q4 2023 and $30.2 million ($0.30) in Q1 2023.
  • Net interest income (FTE) of $92.6 million, down $3.4 million from the prior quarter; net interest margin was 3.52%, down 13 basis points.
  • Quarterly cash dividend raised 4.0% to $0.13 per share, payable May 17, 2024 to shareholders of record as of May 3, 2024.
  • No shares were repurchased in Q1 2024; $17.4 million remained under the current buyback program as of March 31, 2024.

The filing

CompanyFirst Commonwealth Financial (FCF)
Form8-K, current report
Filed with the SECApr 23, 2024, 9:12 AM ET
Accession number0000712537-24-000073

Items reported: 2.02 Results of Operations7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure

Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗

Written by AI (Anthropic Claude, claude-haiku-5-5) on Nov 8, 2026, 1:55 AM ET, from the text of the filing and its press-release exhibits only. Written later: this filing was briefed after the fact, when past filings were added to the site, so the brief may be read with hindsight; the filing itself is the record of what was known on April 23, 2024.

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