First Commonwealth Financial : 2Q 2023 Earnings Release Webcast Presentation

NYSE: FCF

2Q 2023 Earnings Release Webcast Presentation

July 26, 2023

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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This presentation contains forward-looking statements about First Commonwealth's future plans, strategies and financial performance. These statements can be identified by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts and often include words such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "estimate" or words of similar meaning, or future or conditional verbs such as "will," "would," "should," "could" or "may." Such statements are based on assumptions and involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control. Factors that could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ from those discussed in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to:

• economic, market, liquidity, credit, interest rate, operational and technological risks associated with the Company's business;
• future credit quality and performance, including our expectations regarding future loan losses and our allowance for credit losses
• the effect of and changes in policies and laws or regulatory agencies, including the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and other legislation and regulation relating to the banking industry;
• management's ability to effectively execute its business plans;
• mergers and acquisitions, including costs or difficulties related to the integration of acquired companies;
• the possibility that any of the anticipated benefits of acquisitions will not be realized or will not be realized within the expected time period;
• the effect of changes in accounting policies and practices;
• changes in consumer spending, borrowing and saving and changes in unemployment;
• changes in customers' performance and creditworthiness;
• the costs and effects of litigation and of unexpected or adverse outcomes in such litigation;
• current and future economic and market conditions, including the effects of changes in housing prices, fluctuations in unemployment rates, U.S. fiscal debt, budget and tax matters, geopolitical matters, and any slowdown in global economic growth;
• the adverse impact on the U.S. economy, including the markets in which we operate, of the novel coronavirus, which causes the Coronavirus disease 2019 ("COVID-19"), global pandemic, and the impact on the performance of our loan and lease portfolio, the market value of our investment securities, the availability of sources of funding and the demand for our products;
• our capital and liquidity requirements (including under regulatory capital standards, such as the Basel III capital standards) and our ability to generate capital internally or raise capital on favorable terms;
• financial services reform and other current, pending or future legislation or regulation that could have a negative effect on our revenue and businesses, including the Dodd-Frank Act and other legislation and regulation relating to bank products and services;
• the effect of the current interest rate environment or changes in interest rates or in the level or composition of our assets or liabilities on our net interest income, net interest margin and our mortgage originations, mortgage servicing rights and mortgage loans held for sale;
• the effect of a fall in stock market prices on our brokerage, asset and wealth management businesses;
• a failure in or breach of our operational or security systems or infrastructure, or those of our third-party vendors or other service providers, including as a result of cyber-attacks;
• the effect of changes in the level of checking or savings account deposits on our funding costs and net interest margin;
• our ability to develop and execute effective business plans and strategies; and
• other risks and uncertainties described in the reports that First Commonwealth files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made. First Commonwealth undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect circumstances or events that occur after the date the forward-looking statements are made.

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2Q 2023 Earnings Release Webcast Presentation

SECOND QUARTER 2023 HIGHLIGHTS

Highlights

$56.3 million

Core Pre-taxpre-provision income(1)

2.03%

Core PTPP ROAA(1)

1.52%

Reserve coverage ratio

$4.3 billion

Available liquidity

$245.7 million

Excess capital(2)

7.7%

TCE ratio

Diversified balance sheet and revenue streams continue to improve the earnings power of the company

• Record net interest income (FTE) of $98.1 million increased $3.5 million from the previous quarter
• • Net interest margin contracted 16bps to 3.85% from the previous quarter
• Total loans grew $148.1 million, or 6.9% annualized from the previous quarter
• Average deposit (excluding acquired deposits) grew $221.4 million, or 10.8% annualized from the previous quarter
• Noninterest income of $24.5 million increased $1.6 million from the previous quarter primarily due to a $0.6 million increase in gain on sale of mortgage loans and higher interchange and service charge revenue
• Core noninterest expense of $64.7 million increased $3.0 million from the previous quarter due primarily to a $1.7 million increase in hospitalization expense
• Tangible book value per share increased $0.11, or 5.3% annualized from the previous quarter

(1)	Please refer to the appendix for a reconciliation of non-GAAP measures
(2)	Represents excess capital above the bank-level Tier 1 Capital regulatory "well capitalized" requirement of 8.0%	4

2Q 2023 Earnings Release Webcast Presentation

NET INTEREST INCOME AND NET INTEREST MARGIN

Net Interest Income(1)

Yield/Cost Trends(1)

• Net interest income (FTE) of $98.1 million increased by $3.4 million from LQ and $24.2 million YoY
• • $643.2 million increase in average interest earning assets from LQ
  • • Includes $604.3 million from the Centric acquisition
• Net interest margin of 3.85% decreased 16bps from LQ and increased 47bps YoY
• • Yield on loans increased 31bps to LQ
  • Cost of deposits was 1.14% in the current quarter compared to 0.72% LQ
  • Cost of funds was 1.38% during the current quarter compared to 0.90% LQ
• Approximately $4.5 billion, or 52%, of the $8.8 billion loan portfolio is variable
• • Average duration of the loan portfolio is
    3.7 years

(2)

$ in millions

(1) Taxable equivalent5

(2) Please refer to the appendix for a reconciliation of non-GAAP measures