HBAN 10-Q Quarter ended March 31, 2015

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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

QUARTERLY PERIOD ENDED March 31, 2015

Commission File Number 1-34073

Huntington Bancshares Incorporated

41 South High Street, Columbus, Ohio 43287

Registrant’s telephone number (614) 480-8300

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. x Yes ¨ No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). x Yes ¨ No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). ¨ Yes x No

There were 808,528,243 shares of Registrant’s common stock ($0.01 par value) outstanding on March 31, 2015.

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HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INCORPORATED

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Glossary of Acronyms and Terms

The following listing provides a comprehensive reference of common acronyms and terms used throughout the document:

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When we refer to “we”, “our”, and “us” in this report, we mean Huntington Bancshares Incorporated and our consolidated subsidiaries, unless the context indicates that we refer only to the parent company, Huntington Bancshares Incorporated. When we refer to the “Bank” in this report, we mean our only bank subsidiary, The Huntington National Bank, and its subsidiaries.

INTRODUCTION

We are a multi-state diversified regional bank holding company organized under Maryland law in 1966 and headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Through the Bank, we have 149 years of servicing the financial needs of our customers. Through our subsidiaries, we provide full-service commercial and consumer banking services, mortgage banking services, automobile financing, equipment leasing, investment management, trust services, brokerage services, insurance service programs, and other financial products and services. Our 733 branches are located in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, West Virginia, and Kentucky. Selected financial services and other activities are also conducted in various other states. International banking services are available through the headquarters office in Columbus, Ohio and a limited purpose office located in the Cayman Islands and another limited purpose office located in Hong Kong. Our foreign banking activities, in total or with any individual country, are not significant.

This MD&A provides information we believe necessary for understanding our financial condition, changes in financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows. The MD&A included in our 2014 Form 10-K should be read in conjunction with this MD&A as this discussion provides only material updates to the 2014 Form 10-K. This MD&A should also be read in conjunction with the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements, Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements, and other information contained in this report.

Our discussion is divided into key segments:

A reading of each section is important to understand fully the nature of our financial performance and prospects.

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EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW

Summary of 2015 First Quarter Results

For the quarter, we reported net income of $165.9 million, or $0.19 per common share, compared with $149.1 million, or $0.17 per common share, in the year-ago quarter ( see Table 1 ).

Fully-taxable equivalent net interest income was $475.2 million for the quarter, up $31.9 million, or 7%, from the year-ago quarter. The results reflected a $6.2 billion, or 11%, increase in average earning assets, including a $4.4 billion, or 10%, increase in average loans and leases, as well as a $1.8 billion, or 16%, increase in average securities. The impact of these balance increases was partially offset by a 12 basis point decrease in the net interest margin. The primary items affecting the net interest margin were a 15 basis point negative impact from the mix and yield of earning assets and a 1 basis point reduction in the benefit from the impact of noninterest-bearing funds, partially offset by a 4 basis point reduction in funding costs.

The provision for credit losses decreased $4.0 million from the year-ago quarter to $20.6 million in the 2015 first quarter. NCOs decreased $18.6 million, or 43%, to $24.4 million. NCOs represented an annualized 0.20% of average loans and leases in the current quarter consistent with the prior quarter results, and down substantially from the 0.40% in the year-ago quarter. Residential and home equity NCOs continued to show a declining trend over the last five quarters. Commercial NCOs have been relatively consistent over the period with relatively low levels creating some quarter-to-quarter volatility.

Noninterest income decreased $16.9 million, or 7%, from the year-ago quarter. The year-over-year decrease primarily reflected the $17.0 million of securities gains realized in the 2014 first quarter compared to none in the current quarter. In addition, capital market fees increased $4.7 million, or 51%, primarily related to income from customer interest rate derivative products and underwriting fees. Electronic banking increased $3.8 million, or 16%, due to higher card related income and underlying customer growth. Service charges on deposit accounts decreased $2.4 million, or 4%, reflecting the decline from the late July 2014 implementation of changes in consumer products, partially offset by a 9% increase in consumer households and changing customer usage patterns.

Noninterest expense decreased $1.3 million, or less than 1%, from the year-ago quarter. Noninterest expense in the year-ago quarter included several Significant Items, which are further described in the “Discussion of Results of Operations” section. The results reflected a $15.0 million, or 29%, decrease in other expense (excluding the impact of Significant Items, other expenses decreased $4.6 million, or 11%), and a $3.6 million, or 26%, decrease in deposit and other insurance expense, primarily reflecting the benefit of $1.8 billion of bank-level debt issued over the past year. This was partially offset by a $15.4 million, or 6%, increase in personnel costs (excluding the impact of Significant Items, personnel costs increased $17.8 million, or 7%, primarily related to a $13.8 million increase in salaries reflecting a 1% increase in the number of full-time equivalent employees and a $4.0 million increase in benefits expense).

The tangible common equity to tangible assets ratio was 7.95% at March 31, 2015, down 68 basis points from a year ago. On a Basel III transitional basis, the regulatory common equity tier 1 (CET1) risk-based capital ratio was 9.51% at March 31, 2015, and the regulatory tier 1 risk-based capital ratio was 10.22%. On a Basel I basis, the tier 1 common risk-based capital ratio was 10.60% at March 31, 2014, and the regulatory tier 1 risk-based capital ratio was 11.95%. All capital ratios were impacted by the repurchase of 26.1 million common shares over the last four quarters.

Business Overview

General

Our general business objectives are: (1) grow net interest income and fee income, (2) deliver positive operating leverage, (3) increase primary relationships across all business segments, (4) continue to strengthen risk management and reduce volatility, and (5) maintain strong capital and liquidity positions.

Ongoing improvement in our expense control environment, continuing good core deposit growth, and strong mortgage and capital markets results were highlights for the quarter. In addition, we completed the successful close of our acquisition of Macquarie Equipment Finance, Inc. on March 31, 2015, and look forward to transitioning to the Huntington Technology Finance brand to align our enhanced capabilities with our combined customer base and prospects. Also in the quarter, we continued to expand within our core footprint via the launch of our previously announced 2015 in-store build out, enhancing our full-service branch network in a cost-efficient manner.

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On April 21, 2015, the board of directors approved two capital actions. First, the board declared a quarterly cash dividend on the Company’s common stock of $0.06 per common share. The dividend is payable July 1, 2015, to shareholders of record on June 17, 2015. Second, the board authorized the repurchase of up to $366 million of common shares over the five quarters through the 2016 second quarter. Both actions were proposed in the January 2015 CCAR capital plan, which received no objections from the Federal Reserve. Purchases of common stock may include open market purchases, privately negotiated transactions, and accelerated repurchase programs. During the 2015 first quarter, the Company repurchased 4.9 million common shares at an average price of $10.45 per share, which completed our previous repurchase authorization.

Economy

The automobile industry is expected to provide continued impetus for regional manufacturing growth and capital spending in 2015, offsetting slower anticipated growth in energy and non-transportation exports. Manufacturing employment growth and activity spurs employment growth directly in manufacturing and indirectly in service sectors as evidenced by the drop in unemployment rates during the recovery in our footprint states.

Home purchase prices are rising in our footprint states and the nation. In addition, office vacancy rates in our largest MSAs are down substantially during the economic recovery-to-date. Further, industrial vacancy rates in most of our largest footprint MSAs have been below the national average, reflecting generally healthy industrial real estate markets.

Legislative and Regulatory

Regulatory reforms continue to be adopted, including the 2015 first quarter implementation of the Basel III regulatory capital requirements.

Basel III Regulatory Capital Requirements —In 2013, the Federal Reserve voted to adopt final capital rules implementing Basel III requirements for U.S. Banking organizations, which were effective for us beginning January 1, 2015. The final rules establish an integrated regulatory capital framework and implement in the United States the Basel III regulatory capital reforms from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and certain changes required by the Dodd-Frank Act. Consistent with the international Basel framework, the final rule includes a new regulatory minimum ratio of common equity tier 1 capital to risk-weighted assets. The rule also raises the minimum ratio of tier 1 capital to risk-weighted assets and includes a minimum leverage ratio of 4%. The Basel III capital rules establish two methodologies for calculating risk-weighted assets, the advanced and standardized approaches. We are subject to the standardized approach for calculating risk-weighted assets. The implementation of the Basel III capital requirements is transitional and phases-in through the end of 2018.

Expectations – 2015

We remain committed to delivering solid results in a flat interest rate environment. We have built our budget around the current rate environment and our planned results are not dependent on a rate hike. While our customer activity levels, our pipelines and our balance sheet are strong, we will continue to be disciplined in growing our commercial real estate and C&I portfolios. We will continue disciplined execution of our strategic focus on investment in the business, controlled expenses and delivering full-year positive operating leverage.

On March 31, 2015, we completed our acquisition of Macquarie in a cash transaction valued at $457.8 million. Macquarie is the largest standalone, vendor independent provider of specialized technology financing with customer-centric asset management services in the United States. The acquisition gives us the ability to drive added growth to our national equipment finance business as well as additional health care and small business finance capabilities. We expect Macquarie, which added over 165 positions to our colleague base, to generate approximately $500 million in annual lease originations and approximately $75 million to $85 million in annualized revenue.

Excluding Significant Items and net MSR activity, we expect to deliver positive operating leverage in 2015, with and without the run rate impact of the Macquarie acquisition. Achieving annual positive operating leverage is a long-term strategic goal and we are committed to managing expenses in conjunction with our revenue outlook to achieve that goal. We expect noninterest expense growth of 2-4%, excluding Significant Items and the recurring expense related to the Macquarie acquisition.

Overall, asset quality metrics are expected to remain near current levels, although moderate quarterly volatility also is expected, given the absolute low level of problem assets and credit costs. We anticipate NCOs will remain within or below our long-term normalized range of 35 to 55 basis points.

The effective tax rate for 2015 is expected to be in the range of 24% to 27%.

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DISCUSSION OF RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

This section provides a review of financial performance from a consolidated perspective. It also includes a “Significant Items” section that summarizes key issues important for a complete understanding of performance trends. Key Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet and Unaudited Condensed Statement of Income trends are discussed. All earnings per share data are reported on a diluted basis. For additional insight on financial performance, please read this section in conjunction with the “Business Segment Discussion.”

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Significant Items

Definition of Significant Items

From time-to-time, revenue, expenses, or taxes are impacted by items judged by us to be outside of ordinary banking activities and / or by items that, while they may be associated with ordinary banking activities, are so unusually large that their outsized impact is believed by us at that time to be infrequent or short-term in nature. We refer to such items as Significant Items. Most often, these Significant Items result from factors originating outside the Company; e.g., regulatory actions / assessments, windfall gains, changes in accounting principles, one-time tax assessments / refunds, litigation actions, etc. In other cases, they may result from our decisions associated with significant corporate actions outside of the ordinary course of business; e.g., merger / restructuring charges, recapitalization actions, goodwill impairment, etc.

Even though certain revenue and expense items are naturally subject to more volatility than others due to changes in market and economic environment conditions, as a general rule volatility alone does not define a Significant Item. For example, changes in the provision for credit losses, gains / losses from investment activities, asset valuation writedowns, etc., reflect ordinary banking activities and are, therefore, typically excluded from consideration as a Significant Item.

We believe the disclosure of Significant Items provides a better understanding of our performance and trends to ascertain which of such items, if any, to include or exclude from an analysis of our performance; i.e., within the context of determining how that performance differed from expectations, as well as how, if at all, to adjust estimates of future performance accordingly. To this end, we adopted a practice of listing Significant Items in our external disclosure documents; e.g., earnings press releases, investor presentations, Forms 10-Q and 10-K.

Significant Items for any particular period are not intended to be a complete list of items that may materially impact current or future period performance.

Significant Items Influencing Financial Performance Comparisons

Earnings comparisons were impacted by the Significant Items summarized below:

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The following table reflects the earnings impact of the above-mentioned Significant Items for periods affected by this Results of Operations discussion:

Table 2—Significant Items Influencing Earnings Performance Comparison

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The following tables detail the change in our average balance sheet and the net interest margin:

Table 3—Consolidated Quarterly Average Balance Sheets