FirstEnergy FE Q3 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

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DATE

Oct. 23, 2025, 9 a.m. ET

CALL PARTICIPANTS

• President & Chief Executive Officer — Brian Tierney

• Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer — K. Jon Taylor

Full Conference Call Transcript

Brian Tierney: Thank you, Karen. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining america contiguous and for your involvement successful FirstEnergy. We are having a large twelvemonth with beardown results crossed each of our cardinal fiscal metrics. Yesterday, we reported 3rd 4th GAAP net of $0.76 per stock compared to $0.73 successful the 3rd 4th past year. Core net were $0.83 per stock for the 4th compared to $0.76 successful the 3rd 4th of 2024. For the year-to-date period, our halfway net were $2.02 per stock compared to $1.76 successful 2024, an summation of 15%. Our results benefited from beardown execution of our customer-focused concern plan, Pennsylvania basal rates that went into effect successful January and beardown fiscal discipline.

Through the archetypal 9 months of 2025, we invested $4 cardinal of superior successful our regulated utilities. This is simply a 30% summation compared to past year. We are pleased to beryllium successful a presumption to enactment adjacent much resources into strategy reliability and resiliency for our customers. Today, we are announcing a 10% summation to our 2025 superior concern programme to $5.5 billion. With our beardown year-to-date results, we are raising our 2025 guidance midpoint and narrowing our scope to $2.50 to $2.56 per share. We stay affirmative astir the opportunities ahead. We are reaffirming our halfway net compounded yearly maturation complaint of 6% to 8%.

And aboriginal adjacent year, we expect to rotation retired a higher CapEx program for the 2026 done 2030 readying period. Turning to Slide 6. Load maturation from information centers continues to alteration our industry. FirstEnergy work territory, expertise, and assets are ideally positioned to enactment the singular request maturation and economical accidental wrong and adjacent to our footprint. Within our operational area, information halfway involvement remains high. Our semipermanent pipeline of demand, which includes interconnection requests from superior and reputable customers has astir doubled since our 4th fourth net telephone successful February. Our contracted lawsuit request accrued by implicit 30% during the aforesaid period. The interaction of this request volition beryllium tremendous.

Based connected information halfway customers who are contracted oregon successful our pipeline, we expect FirstEnergy's strategy highest load to summation 15 gigawatts oregon astir 50% from 33.5 gigawatts this twelvemonth to 48.5 gigawatts successful 2035. Across PJM, highest load projections are forecasted to summation by astir 48 gigawatts by 2035 oregon 30% of the existent highest load of 162 gigawatts. FirstEnergy is uniquely situated to enactment this increasing request done customer-focused investments, specifically successful our transmission system. This strategy is located successful the bosom of PJM, interconnecting with a wide fig of neighboring utilities and encompassing strategical high-voltage corridors that are a captious portion of the transmission grid. Turning to Slide 7.