SYNCHRONY $SYF Q3’26 EARNINGS HIGHLIGHTS
🔹 EPS: $2.68 (Est. $2.42) 🟢
🔹 Net Interest Income: $4.8B; +2% YoY
🔹 Net Earnings: $892M; -17% YoY
🔹 Purchase Volume: $49.7B; +8% YoY
Purchase Volume by Platform:
🔹 Home & Auto: +9% YoY
🔹 Digital: +5% YoY
🔹 Diversified & Value: +13% YoY
🔹 Health & Wellness: +3% YoY
🔹 Lifestyle: +6% YoY
Announcements:
🔸 Established partnership with OpenAI for strategic agentic commerce collaboration
🔸 Announced new integration with Stripe for CareCredit financing at online checkout
Other Q3 Metrics:
🔹 Net Interest Margin: 15.50%; -12 bps YoY
🔹 Efficiency Ratio: 35.9%; +330 bps YoY
🔹 Net Charge-offs: 4.79%; -37 bps YoY
🔹 30+ Days Past Due: 4.34%; -5 bps YoY
🔹 Return on Equity: 21.0%; -410 bps YoY
🔹 CET1 Ratio: 12.9%
Capital Return:
🔹 Share Repurchases: $1.1B
🔹 Common Stock Dividends: $110M
🔹 Remaining Authorization: ~$4.6B
Key Updates:
🔸 Provision included a $30 million reserve build versus a $152 million release in the prior year
Comments:
🔸 “Spend reached a record third quarter level and increased across credit cohorts and generations”