Exelon Corporation Q4 FY2024 Earnings Call

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Overall Performance

  • 2024 GAAP earnings: $2.45 per share; Adjusted earnings: $2.50 per share.
  • Met or exceeded guidance midpoint for the third consecutive year as a pure T&D utility.
  • Represents approximately 6% growth from the 2023 guidance midpoint.
  • Operational excellence continued: All four utilities achieved top quartile reliability; three were top five among peers.
  • Strong safety performance with top quartile serious injury incident rate.

Guidance & Outlook

  • 2025 operating earnings guidance: $2.64 to $2.74 per share.
  • Expect 5% to 7% EPS CAGR from 2024 midpoint ($2.45) through 2028.
  • Dividend increased to $1.60 per share (5.2% year-over-year growth), maintaining ~60% payout ratio.
  • Expect Q1 2025 to represent ~33% of full-year earnings due to seasonality, new rates, and cost shaping.

Capital Investment & Rate Base Growth

  • Updated 2025–2028 capital plan: $38 billion (up $3.5 billion from prior plan).
  • 80% of the incremental increase driven by transmission investment.
  • Annualized rate base growth of 7.4% through 2028, adding nearly $20 billion in rate base.
  • 2025 capital spend expected at ~$9.1 billion.
  • Significant load growth: 1%–2% over four years, with data center-driven high-density load growing rapidly.

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Operator: Other financial information can be found in the investor relations section of Exelon Corporation's website. We would also like to remind you that today's presentation and the associated earnings release materials contain forward-looking statements which are subject to risks and uncertainties. You can find the cautionary statements on these risks on slide two of today's presentation or in our SEC filings. In addition, today's presentation includes references to adjusted operating earnings and other non-GAAP measures. Reconciliations between these measures and the nearest equivalent GAAP measures can be found in the appendix of our presentation and in our earnings release. It is now my pleasure to turn the call over to Calvin Butler, Exelon Corporation's President and CEO. Calvin Butler: Thank you, Andrew, and good morning, everyone. We are pleased to have you with us for our fourth quarter earnings call, closing out another successful year for Exelon Corporation. We are entering our twenty-fifth year as a company since the historic merger of Commonwealth Edison and Philadelphia Electric Company in 2000. Fly Eagles Fly. The industry and the company have seen a tremendous amount of change during that time, not unlike the years over the century plus that shaped ComEd and PECO since their origins in 1881. But some threads indelibly run through that history, including most importantly, a commitment to excellence and service to our customers. That commitment inspired Samue

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