First Merchants Corporation (FRME) Stock Analysis
A live, multi-source view of First Merchants Corporation (FRME): real-time price, technical indicators, Wall Street analyst consensus, recent news sentiment and social buzz — aggregated into one place so you can size up the stock at a glance.
About First Merchants Corporation
First Merchants Corporation operates as the financial holding company for First Merchants Bank that provides commercial and consumer banking services. The company offers a range of financial services, including checking, savings, and deposit products; debit and credit cards; mortgages, refinance, construction or renovation of residential properties, agricultural lending, treasury management services and depository products. It also provides personal and commercial wealth management services, brokerage, investment management, private banking, fiduciary estate, and financial planning services. The company operates banking locations in Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan counties. It offers its services through electronic and mobile delivery channels. First Merchants Corporation was founded in 1893 and is headquartered in Muncie, Indiana.
Sector: Financial Services · Industry: Banks - Regional · United States · 2,086 employees · firstmerchants.com
Key statistics · as of 2026-09-05
As of 2026-09-05, First Merchants Corporation (FRME) had a market capitalization of $2.64B, a trailing P/E of 13.5 (forward 9.4), a dividend yield of 3.51% and a beta of 0.85; the shares traded in a 52-week range of $34.66 – $45.33 (2.9% over the year).
- Market cap
- $2.64B
- Enterprise value
- $3.65B
- Trailing P/E
- 13.5
- Forward P/E
- 9.4
- PEG ratio
- 1.40
- Price / book
- 0.98
- EPS (trailing)
- $3.11
- EPS (forward)
- $4.48
- Dividend yield
- 3.51%
- Payout ratio
- 46.6%
- Ex-dividend date
- 2026-09-04
- 52-week range
- $34.66 – $45.33
- 52-week change
- 2.9%
- Beta
- 0.85
- Average volume
- 431,807
- Shares outstanding
- 62.8M
- Short % of float
- 3.32%
- Profit margin
- 29.0%
Fundamental figures are recorded once every few days, dated above; they are not live and can differ from the interactive tiles.
Last universe scan · 2026-09-08
In RapidTradeView’s 2026-09-08 scan of the US universe, First Merchants Corporation (FRME) last closed at $42.06 (the last completed close before that scan).
Technicals at the scan: RSI 48 (neutral territory), price -0.5% versus its 20-day average, 20-day versus 50-day average spread -1.6%, MACD histogram -0.01.
Sentiment inputs: StockTwits 80% bullish; analyst consensus score 75/100.
Next scheduled company event: in 10 days from the scan date.
Scan values are recorded once per trading day and are not live quotes; the interactive tiles above update in real time.
Smart Money · last 90 days
RapidTradeView has recorded no Congress or insider filing for FRME in the last 90 days. Coverage of House, Senate and SEC Form 4 filings began in July 2026, and insider sells are tracked for universe tickers only, so this is our record, not a guarantee that nothing was filed. Who is trading what
RapidTradeView pick record
FRME has not appeared in the daily picks yet. Full scoreboard
What this page covers
RapidTradeView pulls First Merchants Corporation (FRME) data from multiple independent sources and combines it into a single dashboard. Below the summary you’ll find live, interactive tiles for each of the following:
- Price & chart — real-time quote with pre/post-market moves and a line or candlestick chart.
- Technical indicators — RSI, MACD, moving averages, Bollinger Bands, volume and support/resistance, distilled into one overall signal.
- Analyst consensus — the buy/hold/sell breakdown and price targets published by Wall Street analysts.
- News sentiment — recent headlines, each scored for tone so the prevailing narrative is obvious.
- Earnings — current EPS, year-over-year change and the next scheduled earnings date.
- Social buzz — Reddit mention volume and StockTwits sentiment for the retail-trader angle.
How to read the signals
No single indicator tells the whole story. A bullish technical reading paired with a cautious analyst consensus, or strong social buzz against weak earnings, is exactly the kind of tension this view is built to surface. RapidTradeView’s signals are generated by deterministic, statistical models — they describe what the data is doing, they are not personalised recommendations to buy or sell FRME.
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