SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
              


FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934


Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): July 28, 2016
IBERIABANK CORPORATION
(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)


Louisiana
(State or Other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation)
0-25756
(Commission
File Number)
72-1280718
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
 
 
 

200 West Congress Street, Lafayette, Louisiana 70501
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)    
(337) 521-4003
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code


NOT APPLICABLE    
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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ITEM 7.01    REGULATION FD DISCLOSURE
On July 28, 2016, IBERIABANK Corporation (the “Company”) disclosed the following:

The Company reconfirms its expectations of full year core earnings per common share on a diluted basis to be in line with its previously disclosed guidance of $4.58, which is based on the following assumptions:
Tax-equivalent net interest margin for the full year 2016 of approximately 3.60%;
Consolidated loan growth for the full year 2016 to be between 5% and 7%;
A continued increase in core non-interest income for 2016 compared to the full year 2015;
Core non-interest expense of approximately $555 million for the full year of 2016; and
A higher effective tax rate than for the full year of 2015.

The Company currently expects its energy-related loan portfolio to be less than 4% of the total loan portfolio outstanding at the end of 2016.
















Caution About Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements," which may include forecasts of our financial results and condition, expectations for our operations and businesses, and our assumptions for those forecasts and expectations. Do not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Due to various factors, actual results may differ materially from our forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from our forward-looking statements are described under “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” “Risk Factors” and “Regulation and Supervision” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015, and in other documents subsequently filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission, available at the SEC’s website, http://www.sec.gov, and the Company’s website, http://www.iberiabank.com. To the extent that statements in this press release relate to future plans, objectives, financial results or performance by the Company, these statements are deemed to be forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are generally identified by use of words such as “may,” “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “will,” “should,” “plan,” “estimate,” “predict,” “continue” and “potential” or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology.

 Forward-looking statements represent management’s beliefs, based upon information available at the time the statements are made, with regard to the matters addressed; they are not guarantees of future performance.  Forward-looking statements are subject to numerous assumptions, risks and uncertainties that change over time and could cause actual results or financial condition to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by such statements.  Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to: the level of market volatility, our ability to execute our growth strategy, including the availability of future bank acquisition opportunities, our ability to execute on our revenue and efficiency improvement initiatives, unanticipated losses related to the completion and integration of mergers and acquisitions, refinements to purchase accounting adjustments for acquired businesses and assets and assumed liabilities in these transactions, adjustments of fair values of acquired assets and assumed liabilities and of deferred taxes in acquisitions, actual results deviating from the Company’s current estimates and assumptions of timing and amounts of cash flows, utilization of non-GAAP financial measures, credit risk of our customers, resolution of assets subject to loss share agreements with the FDIC within the coverage periods, effects of the on-going correction in residential real estate prices and  levels of home sales, our ability to satisfy new capital and liquidity standards such as those imposed by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and those adopted by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and federal banking regulators, sufficiency of our allowance for loan losses, changes in interest rates, access to funding sources, reliance on the services of executive management, competition for loans, deposits and investment dollars, competition from competitors with greater financial resources than the Company, reputational risk and social factors, compliance with laws and regulations, increases in FDIC insurance assessments, geographic concentration of our markets, economic and business conditions in our markets or nationally, including the impact of volatility of oil and gas prices, rapid changes in the financial services industry, significant litigation, cyber-security risks including dependence on our operational, technological, and organizational systems and infrastructure and those of third party providers of those services, hurricanes and other adverse weather events, and valuation of intangible assets. All information is as of the date of this press release. Except to the extent required by applicable law or regulation, the Company undertakes no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statement for any reason.







SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, hereunto duly authorized.
IBERIABANK CORPORATION




DATE: July 28, 2016                        
By: /s/ Daryl G. Byrd    
    Daryl G. Byrd
President and Chief Executive Officer