secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     NORTHERN TRUST CORP (NTRS)
CIK:        0000073124
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-10-21T10:39:37+00:00
Accession:  0000073124-26-000063
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.72
Item codes: 2.02, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2

Northern Trust Q3 EPS $3.40, up 48% YoY; revenue rises 13% on trust-fee growth
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- Net income $642.9M and diluted EPS $3.40 vs $2.29 a year earlier; year-to-date EPS $10.33 (+63%) on net income of $1,960.6M.
- Notable items added $48.7M pre-tax: $34.0M gain on the guardianship services business sale and $14.7M from the second Visa Exchange Offer.
- Revenue $2,302.1M, up 13% YoY but down 15% QoQ against Q2's $525.4M Visa gain; trust fees $1,373.0M (+8%) and net interest income $679.1M (+14%).
- Asset Servicing pretax income $405.2M (+38%, 30.3% margin); Wealth Management $391.6M (+14%, 41.1% margin); AUC/A $19.9T (+9%) and AUM $1.96T (+11%).
- CET1 12.4%, ROE 20.1% vs 14.8%; quarterly dividend raised to $0.88 from $0.80; more than $1.5B returned to common shareholders year to date.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/73124/000007312426000063/0000073124-26-000063-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/73124/000007312426000063/ntrs-20261021.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000073124-26-000063

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