Entergy Corporation Q2 FY2026 Earnings Call

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Key Context: This is Entergy's Q2 2026 earnings call (comparisons primarily to Q2 2025 where noted). The company remains on track for its 2026 adjusted EPS guidance and longer-term outlooks through 2030. Focus areas include data center-driven growth, customer protections via the "Fair Share Plus" pledge, resilience investments, and regulatory progress across jurisdictions.

Financial Highlights

  • Adjusted EPS: $1.03 (slightly lower than Q2 2025, primarily due to weather normalizing vs. warmer weather in 2025).
  • Retail Sales Growth: Positive excluding weather impact, driven by 10% industrial sales growth from new/expanding projects ramping up operations (Q2 2026 vs. prior year).
  • Other Drivers: Benefits from customer investments (regulatory actions net of higher depreciation, taxes, and financing costs); offset by higher other O&M, parent interest expense, and increased share count from equity forward settlements.
  • Credit & Liquidity: Credit metrics remain above rating agency thresholds (e.g., FFO/debt at or above 15% for Moody's). Strong liquidity via cash, revolvers, and unsettled equity forwards. $2.175B equity forward offering completed in May 2026; 60% of 5-year equity plan contracted through 2028. Settled 8.7M shares for $672M net proceeds in June 2026.

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Operator: Thank you for standing by. My name is Greg, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to today's Entergy Corporation Second Quarter Earnings Call and Teleconference. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. If you would like to ask a question during this time, simply press star followed by the number 1 on your telephone keypad. And I will now turn the call over to Liz Hunter, Vice President of Investor Relations for Entergy Corporation. Liz, you have the floor. Liz Hunter: Good morning. Thank you, Greg, and thanks to everyone for joining this morning. We will begin today with comments from Entergy's Chair and CEO, Drew Marsh, and then Kimberly A. Fontan, our CFO, will review results. In today's call, management will make certain forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from these forward looking statements due to a number of factors, which are set forth in our earnings release, our slide presentation and our SEC filings. Entergy does not assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements. Management will also discuss non-GAAP financial information. Reconciliations to the applicable GAAP are included in today's press release and slide presentation both of which can be found on the Investor Relations section of our website. And now, I will turn the call over to Drew. Andrew S. Marsh: Thank

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