Entergy Corporation Q1 FY2020 Earnings Call

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Overall Highlights

  • Adjusted EPS: $1.14, up $0.32 from Q1 2019 (driven by utility rate actions, lower O&M, favorable tax items).
  • Entergy affirmed full-year 2020 adjusted EPS guidance of $5.45–$5.75 and kept its 2021–2022 outlook unchanged.
  • COVID‑19 impacts expected to reduce 2020 revenue by $120–$140 million; Entergy has identified $100 million in O&M reductions to offset.
  • Liquidity remains strong with $3.2 billion available as of March 31, 2020; no equity needed until 2021.
  • Capital plan unchanged; major generation projects remain on track.

Operational & Strategic Updates

  • COVID‑19 Response: • Pandemic response plan activated January 16. • Focus areas include employee safety, service reliability, financial mitigation, and future planning. • Customer disconnects suspended; new payment plans rolled out. • Entergy Charitable Foundation and employees committed $1.3M to community relief.

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Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. And welcome to the Entergy Corporation First Quarter 2020 Earnings Release and Teleconference. At this time, all participants are in listen only mode. After the speakers presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session [Operator Instructions]. As a reminder, today's program is being recorded. I would now like to introduce your host for today's program, David Borde, Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir. David Borde: Good morning, and thank you for joining us. We will begin today with comments from Entergy's Chairman and CEO, Leo Denault and then Drew Marsh, our CFO, will review results. In an effort to accommodate everyone who has questions, we request that each person to ask no more than one question and one follow-up. In today's call, management will make certain forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from these forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, which are set forth in our earnings release, our slide presentation and our SEC filings. Entergy does not assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements. Management will also discuss non-GAAP financial information. Reconciliations to the applicable GAAP measures are included in today's press release and slide presentation, both of which can be found on the Investor Relations section of our Web site. I would also point out that our initial earnings release this morning contained a c

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