First Merchants Corporation (FRME): Price and Financial Metrics

FRME POWR Grades

• FRME scores best on the Sentiment dimension, with a Sentiment rank ahead of 85.86% of US stocks.
• FRME's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving up over the last 31 weeks.
• FRME's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 19.46% of US stocks).

FRME Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 499.49, First Merchants Corp is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than 92.69% of US stocks.
• Of note is the ratio of First Merchants Corp's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 86.79% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• FRME's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of 84.94% of US stocks.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to First Merchants Corp, a group of peers worth examining would be BWB, CBU, THFF, CVBF, and OPBK.
• FRME's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit First Merchants Corp's official web site, go to www.firstmerchants.com.

FRME Valuation Summary

• FRME's EV/EBIT ratio is 11.9; this is 32.22% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• Over the past 243 months, FRME's price/sales ratio has gone up 1.2.
• FRME's EV/EBIT ratio has moved down 0.8 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for FRME.

FRME Growth Metrics

• Its 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 155.51%.
• Its 3 year price growth rate is now at 50.5%.
• Its 3 year revenue growth rate is now at 50.07%.

The table below shows FRME's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).