Capital One Financial Q2 Earnings Call Highlights

Capital One posted solid Q2 results, with earnings of $3 billion, or $4.73 per diluted share, and adjusted EPS of $5.81. Revenue rose 4% sequentially, while lower credit-loss provisions helped offset rising expenses. The Discover integration is progressing on schedule and remains a major driver of growth and synergies. Management said the company is still on track to deliver the full $2.5 billion in announced synergies, with technology and back-book conversions continuing through early next year.

Credit trends improved across the domestic card business, with charge-offs and delinquencies both declining quarter over quarter and year over year. Capital One also highlighted continued strength in purchase volume, loan growth, and resilient consumer spending.

Capital One Financial NYSE: COF reported second-quarter 2026 earnings of $3 billion, or $4.73 per diluted common share, as management said the company continued to generate top-line growth while advancing its Discover integration and adding Brex to its domestic card business. Chief Financial Officer Andrew Young said results included several adjusting items tied to the Discover and Brex acquisitions. Excluding those items, Capital One earned $5.81 per share.

Revenue rose 4% from the first quarter, while non-interest expense increased 7%, producing 1% growth in pre-provision earnings. On an adjusted basis, pre-provision earnings were flat quarter over quarter.

The company’s provision for credit losses declined $1.1 billion, or 27%, from the prior quarter to $3 billion. Young said the provision reflected $3.7 billion of net charge-offs and a $662 million allowance release, bringing the allowance balance to $23 billion. Capital One’s total portfolio coverage ratio fell 26 basis points to 5.02%.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank said Capital One’s domestic card business delivered “another quarter of top-line growth and strong credit results.” He noted that year-over-year comparisons now include Discover in period-end balances, while items such as purchase volume and revenue still reflect partial-quarter impacts from the acquisition.

Domestic card purchase volume rose 26% year over year, primarily due to the addition of partial-quarter Discover volume. Fairbank said legacy Capital One purchase volume growth modestly accelerated, with additional tailwinds from Brex and a small legacy corporate card business that was moved from commercial banking into domestic card. Legacy Discover purchase volume grew just under 2%, while purchase volume for legacy Capital One businesses, including Brex and corporate card, rose about 14%.

Ending domestic card loan balances increased 2.6% year over year. Legacy Discover card loans declined 1.5%, which Fairbank said was in line with management’s expectations for a temporary “brownout” in Discover loan growth. Excluding Discover, ending loans rose about 5.3%.

Domestic card revenue increased 30% from the second quarter of 2025, largely reflecting the addition of Discover revenue. Excluding Discover, revenue rose 9.5%, driven mainly by organic growth in legacy Capital One purchase volume and loans.

The domestic card charge-off rate was 4.71%, down 39 basis points from the first quarter and 54 basis points from a year earlier. The delinquency rate was 3.39%, down 31 basis points sequentially and 21 basis points year over year.

Capital One is 14 months into its planned 24-month Discover integration and that...