FHN
First Horizon Corporation
FHN's fundamentals are weak and it looks expensive: trading at 17x earnings, above its usual 12x. Analysts expect earnings growth.
FHN Fundamentals
| Metric | Status |
|---|---|
| Under pressure | |
| Healthy | |
| N/A | |
| N/A |
FHN's profitability is currently healthy, but its revenue is under pressure. Free cash flow and net leverage aren't meaningful measures for financial services companies like FHN.
FHN PE Valuation
| Level | PE | Price | Vs current |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheap | 7.8x | $10.71 | -54% |
| Forward | 10x | $23.41 | — |
| Fair | 12x | $16.07 | -31% |
| Expensive | 15x | $20.09 | -14% |
| Current | 17x | $23.41 | — |
Historical ranges are pointers, not guarantees.
FHN's PE is in its expensive range at 17x. If earnings grow as analysts expect, today's price would be 10x next year's earnings, in its fair range.
FHN Forward outlook
| Metric | Outlook |
|---|---|
| Strongly improving | |
| Growth | |
| Stable | |
| Strongly improving | |
| Moderate | |
| Moderate |
Analysts expect FHN's earnings to grow and its profitability to improve, with its revenue holding steady.
FHN Earnings Per Share
| Quarter | TTM EPS | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| Forward | $2.25 | +63% |
| Q3 2026 | $1.38 | -16% |
| Q2 2026 | $2.08 | +34% |
| Q1 2026 | $1.99 | +38% |
| Q4 2025 | $1.87 | +38% |
| Q3 2025 | $1.65 | +19% |
| Q2 2025 | $1.55 | +27% |
| Q1 2025 | $1.44 | 0% |
| Q4 2024 | $1.36 | -12% |
FHN's earnings per share have fallen from their peak: $1.38 over the past year, against $2.61 in mid-2021.
FHN Quarterly Revenue
| Quarter | Revenue | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| Q3 2026 | $407M | -54% |
| Q2 2026 | $887M | +6.9% |
| Q1 2026 | $862M | +6.2% |
| Q4 2025 | $888M | +22% |
| Q3 2025 | $889M | +7.5% |
| Q2 2025 | $830M | +1.8% |
| Q1 2025 | $812M | -0.9% |
| Q4 2024 | $728M | -8.9% |
FHN's revenue has slid since its 2020 peak: $407M last quarter, down 54% from the same quarter a year ago.
| Quarter | Margin | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| Q3 2026 | -24% | -63 points |
| Q2 2026 | 38% | +1.1 points |
| Q1 2026 | 40% | +4.6 points |
| Q4 2025 | 39% | +9.8 points |
| Q3 2025 | 39% | +4.7 points |
| Q2 2025 | 37% | +5.3 points |
| Q1 2025 | 35% | +4.1 points |
| Q4 2024 | 29% | +6.6 points |
FHN's operating margin was −24% last quarter, down 63 points from the same quarter a year ago, near the bottom of its range since 2019.
FHN Free Cash Flow
| Quarter | Free cash flow | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| Q3 2026 | $594M | +$802M |
| Q2 2026 | $566M | +665% |
| Q1 2026 | $270M | -21% |
| Q4 2025 | $389M | +124% |
| Q2 2025 | $74M | +$224M |
| Q1 2025 | $340M | -59% |
| Q2 2024 | -$150M | -149% |
| Q1 2024 | $838M | +$907M |
FHN's free cash flow was $1.8B over the past year, about five times what it generated the year before. Free cash flow isn't a meaningful measure for financial services companies like FHN.
FHN Total Shares
| Period | Change % | Net change |
|---|---|---|
| Quarterly | -1.3% | -6.3M shares |
| 1 year | -7.2% | -36.5M shares |
| 3 years | -16% | -87.6M shares |
| 5 years | -14% | -76M shares |
| Available history | +50% | +158M shares |
FHN has 474M diluted shares, down 7.2% from a year ago, with $695M in buybacks over the past year.
| Quarter | Spent |
|---|---|
| Q3 2026 | $4M |
| Q2 2026 | $121M |
| Q1 2026 | $235M |
| Q4 2025 | $335M |
| Q3 2025 | $190M |
| Q2 2025 | $28M |
| Q1 2025 | $365M |
| Q4 2024 | $164M |
FHN spent $695M buying back its own shares over the past year, down 7% from the year before.
FHN Net Leverage
| Quarter | Net Leverage | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Q3 2026 | 1.9x | Healthy |
| Q2 2026 | 1.4x | Healthy |
| Q1 2026 | 2.3x | Moderate |
| Q4 2025 | 1.7x | Healthy |
| Q4 2022 | 1.2x | Healthy |
| Q3 2022 | 0.2x | Very low |
| Q2 2022 | 0.7x | Very low |
| Q1 2022 | 0.4x | Very low |
FHN's net debt is about 1.9 years of its operating earnings (EBITDA), up from 1.1 years a year ago. Net leverage isn't a meaningful measure for financial services companies like FHN.
FHN Weekly Momentum
| Metric | Value | Status |
|---|---|---|
| RSI | 44.4 | Neutral |
| Stochastic | 23.9 | Neutral |
FHN's weekly RSI is 44 (neutral) and its Stochastic is 24 (neutral).
FHN PE vs Financial Services Sector
| Metric | FHN | Sector median | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|
| PE | 17x | 13x | 30% above |
| PE % | 100 | 63 | 37 pts above |
FHN is trading at 17x earnings, a 30% premium to the Financial Services sector's median of 13x.
FHN Weekly Moving Averages
| Moving average | MA price | Relative |
|---|---|---|
| 8 week MA | $23.3 | 0.7% above |
| 20 week MA | $24.4 | 4.2% below |
| 50 week MA | $24.2 | 3.3% below |
| 100 week MA | $22.5 | 4.1% above |
| 200 week MA | $18.9 | 24% above |
FHN's trend is mixed: it's above three of its five weekly moving averages, and 24% above its 200-week average.
FHN Yearly ROI
| Year | Start price | End price | ROI |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $16.5 | $12.6 | -23% |
| 2021 | $12.6 | $16.0 | +26% |
| 2022 | $16.0 | $24.5 | +53% |
| 2023 | $24.5 | $14.2 | -42% |
| 2024 | $14.2 | $20.2 | +43% |
| 2025 | $20.2 | $24.5 | +21% |
| 2026 YTD | $24.5 | $23.4 | -4.5% |
FHN has finished higher in four of the last six years. It's down 4.5% so far in 2026.