Fifth Third Bancorp Expects 3Q Loan Losses To Be $775 Million
16 September 2009 - 11:20PM
Dow Jones News
Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB) said in a regulatory filing that it
expects third-quarter losses tied to defaulting loans to rise 24%
from the second quarter, to approximately $775 million.
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission ahead of
the presentation by the bank's Chairman and Chief Executive officer
Kevin Kabat at the Barclays Financial Services Conference Wednesday
morning, Fifth Third said it "currently expects net charge-offs to
include approximately $110 million in net charge-offs related to
(Shared National Credits) compared with $17 million in the second
quarter."
However, the Cincinnati bank said it expects losses from shared
national credits, or syndicated loans, to improve "significantly"
in the fourth quarter.
Fifth Third said it expects commercial loan losses to be
approximately $500 million to $525 million and consumer loan losses
to be approximately $250 million to 260 million. The bank expects
nonperforming loans, those for which repayment is doubtful, "to
increase approximately 20% from $2.8 billion at the end of the
second quarter to approximately $3.4 billion at the end of the
third quarter, with approximately $150 million of the growth
related to SNC credits," the filing said.
"Operating trends for the third quarter are expected to be
broadly in line with trends previously expected and communicated at
the time of our second quarter 2009 earnings announcement on July
23, 2009," Fifth Third's filing said.
-By Matthias Rieker, Dow Jones Newswires; 212-416-2471;
matthias.rieker@dowjones.com