First BanCorp maintains its 2026 loan growth target of 3%–5%, with the main contribution expected from commercial and mortgage growth offsetting consumer contraction.
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Can you provide loan growth cadence by business line and quarter to reach the 3%–5% full-year target?
First BanCorp reiterates a full-year 2026 total loan growth target of 3%–5%. 12 However, the provided excerpts do not disclose (a) the starting loan balances by business line at the beginning of 2026, (b) quarterly loan growth rates by business line (e.g., consumer vs. commercial vs. mortgage) for 2026, or (c) a quarter-by-quarter bridge that mathematically produces the 3%–5% outcome. 123
What is supported is the directional “cadence logic” management described for how they expect to get to 3%–5%: consumer (especially auto) contraction/settlement through year-end, offset by incremental commercial and mortgage growth based on pipelines. 2
So, below is the tightest “cadence by business line and quarter” that can be inferred without inventing missing data; where the filings are silent, I label it as such.
Management explicitly said:
Also, they tied weakness to industry auto demand dynamics:
And they quantified a macro/units assumption:
Implication for cadence:
Management stated:
Implication for cadence:
Management also said:
Implication for cadence:
Management reported:
Implication for cadence:
Because the filings do not provide numeric loan balances or quarterly growth rates by line, the only defensible “cadence” is qualitative (timing direction), not a numeric quarter-by-quarter schedule.
| Business line | Q1 2026 | Q2 2026 | Q3 2026 | Q4 2026 | Link to 3%–5% target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer (incl. auto) | Headwind / slight contraction (total loans decline “slightly” and consumer demand softening referenced) 3 | Ongoing payoff/originations “settling” (consumer contraction continues “til end of year”) 2 | Still settling (normalization not expected until year-end) 2 | Most of the settlement completes by end of year (“til the end of the year to… settle”) 2 | Consumer headwind is explicitly acknowledged; total target relies on offsets 21 |
| Commercial | Needs to ramp after Q1 (management expects additional commercial growth) 2 | Offset growth begins/continues (“expect additional commercial growth… based on pipelines”) 2 | Continues to offset consumer (no evidence it stops; guidance targets full-year growth) 12 | Contributes to finishing the year in target range (offset logic remains) 12 | Commercial is the primary stated offset to get to 3%–5% 2 |
| Mortgage | Neutral/slightly down not specified in excerpts | Expected additional growth (“demand continues strong”) 2 | Expected to keep contributing (no pullback indicated) 21 | Expected to contribute to finishing total growth 21 | Mortgage is secondary stated offset 2 |
| Total loans | Slight decline in Q1 3 | Must turn upward to reach full-year range (implied by Q1 decline + need for offsets) 32 | Upward momentum from commercial/mortgage offsets 2 | End-of-year settlement in consumer; final total within 3%–5% 21 | Full-year target reiterated unchanged 12 |
Loan growth guidance itself:
To compute an actual loan growth cadence by business line and quarter (e.g., “Q2 consumer +X, commercial +Y…”) the excerpts would need, at minimum:
Without those, any numeric cadence would be speculation, which would not meet an accuracy standard.
Based on the filings, the cadence to reach 3%–5% is:
All of the above timing logic is explicitly described in management’s discussion of what must happen to achieve the unchanged 3%–5% guidance, and the remainder (exact quarter-by-quarter numeric growth rates by business line) is not provided in the excerpts. 21
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