
Regional banking company Zions Bancorporation (NASDAQ: ZION) will be reporting results this Monday after market close. Here’s what to look for.
Zions Bancorporation missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $878 million, up 4.9% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a miss of analysts’ net interest income estimates and a narrow beat of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Zions Bancorporation’s revenue to grow 2.7% year on year, slowing from the 9.3% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.

Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business will stay the course heading into earnings. Zions Bancorporation has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Zions Bancorporation’s peers in the regional banks segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Independent Bank delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 7.4%, beating analysts’ expectations by 0.6%, and Regions Financial reported revenues up 2.6%, topping estimates by 0.6%. Independent Bank traded up 3.6% following the results.
Read our full analysis of Independent Bank’s results here and Regions Financial’s results here.
In the last twelve months or so, the market has shifted its attention from one area of macro importance to the next (AI disintermediation and AI capex spending to geopolitical conflict, rates, and whether the economy is on solid footing or not). While some of the regional banks stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 5.1% on average over the last month. Zions Bancorporation is down 2.9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $72.73 (compared to the current share price of $63.37).
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