First Merchants Corporation

FRME stock score: 61/100

$40.68 · -0.37% · Scored Oct 23, 2026

Technical
60
Fundamental
63
News
56

The reading

First Merchants (FRME) scores 61 out of 100, which reads neutral, higher than 64% of Financial Services stocks and 78% of the 4,161 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 60, fundamentals 63.

Among the fundamentals, Price Target at 100 and Revenue Quality (Quarterly) at 100 score highest, while Earnings Growth (Quarterly) at 4 weighs the most against it.

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 58 and contrarian oscillators 37.

News sentiment is neutral at 56; it is shown, not counted in the composite.

Since Jul 25, 2026 the composite has ranged from 54 to 73, and it is down 12 points over the period.

What’s driving the score

The strongest and weakest of the scorers that count toward FRME’s composite. Each returns 0–100, higher is more bullish — including metrics where low is good, like P/E.

Fundamental

63

Pulling it up

  • Price Target100

    Price target score compares the current stock price to analyst consensus targets.

  • Revenue Quality (Quarterly)100

    Revenue Quality (Quarterly) evaluates recent revenue performance using trailing 12-month data from quarterly reports.

  • Earnings Quality (Annual)97

    Earnings Quality (Annual) assesses absolute profitability independent of growth, measuring whether the company is profitable, its earnings yield (earnings/market cap), profit margins, and consistency.

Holding it back

  • Earnings Growth (Quarterly)4

    Quarterly earnings growth measures profit increase versus the prior-year quarter.

  • Earnings Estimates17

    Earnings estimates score evaluates analyst projections for future profitability.

  • Insider Transactions35

    Insider transactions track recent buying and selling by company insiders.

33 weighted scorers; 8 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

Technical · daily

54

Pulling it up

  • Parabolic SAR (PSAR)100

    Parabolic SAR (Stop and Reverse) provides trailing stop levels that follow price trends.

  • Average True Range (14)93

    Average True Range (14-period) measures volatility by calculating the average range between high and low prices.

  • SMA 200 Cross Up90

    SMA 200 Cross Up tracks when faster moving averages cross above the 200-period SMA.

Holding it back

  • Ichimoku Cloud0

    Ichimoku Cloud is a comprehensive indicator showing support/resistance, trend direction, and momentum.

  • Bollinger Bands (20)5

    Bollinger Bands (20-period) plot standard deviations above and below a moving average.

  • Williams %R (14)9

    Williams %R (14-period) measures where the current price sits within the recent high-low range.

62 weighted scorers; 3 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

News · shown, not counted

Global News
56

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly531
Daily543
Weekly582
Monthly662
Quarterly672

Composite score, last 90 days

05010061Jul 25, 2026Oct 23, 2026Jul 25, 2026: 73Jul 26, 2026: 73Jul 27, 2026: 55Jul 28, 2026: 55Jul 29, 2026: 56Jul 30, 2026: 55Jul 31, 2026: 59Aug 2, 2026: 62Aug 3, 2026: 65Aug 5, 2026: 63Aug 6, 2026: 62Aug 7, 2026: 62Aug 8, 2026: 61Aug 9, 2026: 61Aug 10, 2026: 61Aug 11, 2026: 62Aug 12, 2026: 63Aug 13, 2026: 63Aug 14, 2026: 64Aug 15, 2026: 64Aug 16, 2026: 64Aug 17, 2026: 63Aug 18, 2026: 62Aug 19, 2026: 62Aug 23, 2026: 60Aug 24, 2026: 60Aug 25, 2026: 59Aug 26, 2026: 59Aug 27, 2026: 59Aug 28, 2026: 61Aug 29, 2026: 60Aug 30, 2026: 61Aug 31, 2026: 60Sep 1, 2026: 60Sep 2, 2026: 61Sep 3, 2026: 61Sep 4, 2026: 61Sep 5, 2026: 61Sep 6, 2026: 61Sep 7, 2026: 61Sep 8, 2026: 60Sep 9, 2026: 57Sep 10, 2026: 58Sep 11, 2026: 59Sep 12, 2026: 59Sep 13, 2026: 59Sep 14, 2026: 59Sep 15, 2026: 60Sep 16, 2026: 58Sep 17, 2026: 58Sep 18, 2026: 58Sep 19, 2026: 58Sep 20, 2026: 58Sep 21, 2026: 58Sep 22, 2026: 58Sep 23, 2026: 58Sep 24, 2026: 59Sep 25, 2026: 59Sep 26, 2026: 59Sep 27, 2026: 59Sep 28, 2026: 58Sep 29, 2026: 56Sep 30, 2026: 56Oct 1, 2026: 55Oct 2, 2026: 58Oct 3, 2026: 58Oct 4, 2026: 58Oct 5, 2026: 56Oct 6, 2026: 56Oct 7, 2026: 55Oct 8, 2026: 56Oct 9, 2026: 55Oct 10, 2026: 55Oct 11, 2026: 55Oct 12, 2026: 56Oct 13, 2026: 56Oct 14, 2026: 54Oct 15, 2026: 57Oct 16, 2026: 58Oct 17, 2026: 58Oct 18, 2026: 58Oct 19, 2026: 57Oct 20, 2026: 59Oct 21, 2026: 59Oct 22, 2026: 60Oct 23, 2026: 61
Show the daily numbers
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Key facts

Market cap
$2.6B
Sector
Financial Services
Industry
Banks - Regional
Beta
0.88
Risk grade (1–10)
3
Next earnings
Oct 21, 2026

Banks - Regional peers

CompanyMarket capScore
FBK FB Financial$2.7B58
FBNC First Bancorp$2.6B64
BANR Banner$2.6B60
BBAR Banco BBVA Argentina$2.6B56
BUSE First Busey$2.5B66
BBT Beacon Financial$2.5B63

Questions

What is FRME's stock score today?

FRME scores 61/100 (Neutral) as of Oct 23, 2026: technical 60, fundamental 63, and news sentiment 56, which is shown but not counted. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is FRME a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 61 says the technical and fundamental signals we measure lean neutral today, relative to every other stock scored the same way. Use the breakdown above to see why, and treat it as a starting point for your own research.

How is the FRME score calculated?

95 weighted scorers feed it today: 33 fundamental, scored against Financial Services ranges, and 62 technical on the daily chart, with 5 timeframes blended into the technical total. Every scorer returns 0–100; missing data is left out, never counted as zero.

Scores are information, not investment advice. Computed from Yahoo Finance, Finnhub and Alpha Vantage data; technical indicators via TA-Lib. Past scores do not predict future returns.