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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001031296-25-000080"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FE"
cik: "0001031296"
company_name: "FIRSTENERGY CORP"
filed_at: "2025-10-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T02:40:36.126954+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# FirstEnergy Q3 Core EPS $0.83 (+9% YoY); narrows FY2025 guidance to $2.50-$2.56; boosts 2025 capex to $5.5B

## Summary
- GAAP EPS $0.76 (Q3), $1.85 YTD; Core EPS $0.83 (Q3), $2.02 YTD – 15% YoY increase in YTD Core.
- Full-year 2025 Core EPS guidance narrowed to $2.50-$2.56 per share (upper half of original $2.40-$2.60).
- 2025 capital investment program increased 10% to $5.5B; $4B deployed through nine months.
- Affirms 6-8% compounded annual Core EPS growth from 2025-2029, supported by $28B Energize365 plan.
- Transmission investments expected to increase 30% in next 5-year plan; West Virginia pursuing 1.2 GW combined-cycle generation by 2031.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001031296-25-000080
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FE
- cik: 0001031296
- company_name: FIRSTENERGY CORP
- filed_at: 2025-10-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1031296/000103129625000080/0001031296-25-000080-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1031296/000103129625000080/fe-20251022.htm

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