U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB) Q4 2023 Earnings Conference Call January 17, 2024 8:00 AM ET

Company Participants

George Andersen - Senior Vice President and Director of Investor Relations

Andy Cecere - Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

John Stern - Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Terry Dolan - Vice Chair and Chief Administration Officer

Conference Call Participants

Scott Siefers - Piper Sandler

Ebrahim Poonawala - Bank of America

John Pancari - Evercore ISI

John McDonald - Autonomous Research

Erika Najarian - UBS

Mike Mayo - Wells Fargo

Matt O'Connor - Deutsche Bank

Gerard Cassidy - RBC Capital Markets

Ken Usdin - Jefferies

Saul Martinez - HSBC

Operator

Hello, and welcome to the U.S. Bancorp Fourth Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call. Following a review of the results, there will be a formal question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] This call will be recorded and available for replay beginning today at approximately 8 a.m. Central Time.

I will now turn the conference call over to George Andersen, Senior Vice President and Director of Investor Relations for U.S. Bancorp. Please go ahead.

George Andersen

Thank you, Sarah, and good morning, everyone.

Today, I'm joined by our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Andy Cecere; our Vice Chair and Chief Administration Officer, Terry Dolan; and our Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, John Stern.

With their prepared remarks, Andy and John will be referencing a slide presentation. A copy of the presentation as well as our earnings release and supplemental analyst schedules are available on our website at usbank.com.

Please note that any forward-looking statements made during today's call are subject to risk and uncertainty. Factors that could materially change our current forward-looking assumptions are described on Page 2 of today's presentation, our earnings release, our Form 10-K and its subsequent reports on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Following our prepared remarks, Andy, Terry and John will take any questions that you have.

I will now turn the call over to Andy.

Andy Cecere

Thanks, George. Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining our call.

I'll begin on Slide 3. In the fourth quarter, we reported earnings per share of $0.49, which included $0.50 per share of notable items that John will discuss in more detail. Excluding these notable items, earnings per share totaled $0.99 in the fourth quarter.

For the fourth quarter, on an adjusted basis, net revenue totaled $6.9 billion, and for the full year, we generated record net revenue of $28.3 billion. We demonstrated strength across our fee businesses, which helped to offset pressure on net interest income.