What Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc. reported on October 21, 2026

The quarter ending September 30, 2026, against the same quarter a year earlier.

These are single quarters, not a trailing year — the figures elsewhere on this site cover twelve months and will be much larger. A seasonal business swings a long way between the two: ServiceNow earns $2.0B of free cash flow in its December quarter and $0.5B in its June one.

Compared against the same quarter a year earlier, not against an analyst forecast. A “beat” or “miss” needs a consensus estimate, which is licensed data we do not carry — and getting it wrong is worse than leaving it out.

What management said

“Three quarters into our first year as a combined company, the pattern that built Pinnacle is intact: consistent, repeatable performance, quarter after quarter. The merger changed our size, not how we perform. Strong loan and deposit growth and outsized growth in fee income have driven double-digit diluted EPS growth year over year. And we did it while building capital and keeping credit sound. Retention and recruiting are both ahead of plan, and clients remain loyal and committed to doing more business with us. We plan to close 2026 building on that pattern of performance,”

Quoted verbatim from the release, and shown only when the filing attributes it to a named person.

How the share price reacted

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