First Merchants Corporation

FRME Financial Banks Regional

First Merchants Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $1.1 billion, down 2.04% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+12.9%
EPS
+11.2%
Free cash flow
−10.5%
Total debt
+27.1%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

41.09 0.80 −1.91%
Market cap
$2.6B
P/E
12.7×
Fwd P/E
12.5×
Dividend yield
3.55%
F-score
8/9
Altman Z
n/a
Beneish M
n/a
Dividend safety
n/a

First Merchants Corporation (FRME) Book value per share

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First Merchants Corporation's book value per share at the end of fiscal 2025 was 42.9×, up 8.61% from 39.5× in fiscal 2024. At the end of the quarter to 30 September 2026 it was 42.2×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 22.1× (fiscal 2016) to 42.9× (fiscal 2025) — the current reading is the highest in ten years. First Merchants Corporation ranks 74th of 326 Banks Regional companies by book value per share.

Book value per share, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Book value per share Change
FY2025 42.9× 8.61%
FY2024 39.5× 4.29%
FY2023 37.9× 7.46%
FY2022 35.3× (0.82%)
FY2021 35.6× 2.49%
FY2020 34.7× (0.15%)
FY2019 34.7× 21.55%
FY2018 28.6× (0.91%)
FY2017 28.8× 30.44%
FY2016 22.1× (1.66%)

Quarterly newest first

Period Book value per share Change
Sep 2026 42.2× (2.45%)
Jun 2026 43.3× (1.60%)
Mar 2026 44.0× 2.51%
Dec 2025 42.9× 2.23%
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 22.1× High 42.9×
Ten-year median 34.7×
Current reading's percentile 100

Book value per share against peers

What Book value per share is

BV per Share tells an investor how much of a company’s accounting net worth stands behind each share.

(Shareholders Equity (Total) ÷ Shares (Basic, Weighted))

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