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Hancock Whitney (HWC) guidance and outlook

Hancock Whitney's 10-Q filed Nov 6, 2026 makes 22 forward-looking statements.

Guidance and outlook

Forward-looking statements, 10-Q filed Nov 6, 2026

• the timing (including integration), impact on customers, employees and deposit mix, benefits, costs and synergies of the merger with OFB Bancshares, Inc., as well as statements regarding potential impact of current or future business combinations on our performance and financial condition, including our ability to successfully identify acquisition targets and to successfully integrate the businesses;
• changes in interest rates, including actions taken by the Federal Reserve Board and the impact of fluctuations in interest rates on our financial projections, models and guidance;
• changes in expense to revenue (efficiency ratio), including the risk that we may not realize and/or sustain benefits from efficiency and growth initiatives or that we may not be able to realize cost savings or revenue benefits in the time period expected, which could negatively affect our future profitability;
• The acquisition enhances our existing financial center footprint by establishing a meaningful presence in the high growth Orlando market and is expected to be immediately accretive to earnings per share, exclusive of one-time transaction costs of approximately $30.4 million incurred in the third quarter of 2026.
• We anticipate a 50 month payback period to cover the $98.5 million pre-tax loss associated with the sale, or approximately $0.95 per diluted share after tax.
• We utilize economic forecasts produced by Moody’s Analytics (Moody’s) that provide various scenarios to assist in the development of our economic outlook.
• The credit loss outlook for our portfolio as a whole has not changed materially since June 30, 2026.
• The year-over-year increase reflects increases in most components of this category, and reflects both expected annual increases in salary, incentives, bonus and associated benefit costs, and incremental expense associated with increased headcount that includes the addition of OFB associates and additional hires of revenue-producing associates, and facility management associates whose function was previously…
• We have invested in NMTC projects through investments in our own Community Development Entities (CDE), as well as other unrelated CDEs.
• We have also invested in affordable housing projects that generate federal LIHTC tax credits that are recognized over a ten-year period, beginning in the year the rental activity begins.
• Based on tax credit investments that have been made to date in 2026, we expect to realize benefits from federal and state tax credits over the next three years totaling $8.0 million, $5.5 million, and $4.4 million in 2027, 2028, and 2029, respectively.
• We may continue making investments in tax credit projects; however, our ability to access new credits will depend upon, among other factors, federal and state tax policies and the level of competition for such credits.

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the timing (including integration), impact on customers, employees and deposit mix, benefits, costs and synergies of the merger with OFB Bancshares, Inc., as well as statements regarding potential impact of current or future business combinations on our performance and financial condition, including our ability to successfully identify acquisition targets and to successfully integrate the businesses; changes in interest rates, including actions taken by the Federal Reserve Board and the impact of fluctuations in interest rates on our financial projections, models and guidance; changes in expen

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Updated Nov 8, 2026. Read automatically from SEC filings and public data; errors are possible. Not investment advice.