First Merchants's ROA from the third quarter of 2026 to the third quarter of 2025 and 5 Year Period

Return on Assets, Quarterly Results, Trends, Rankings, Statistics

What is First Merchants's ROA in the third quarter of 2026?
First Merchants Corp achieved a return on average assets (ROA) of 0.96 % in its third quarter of 2026, which is below First Merchants's average return on assets, which stands at 1.18%.

ROA has improved compared to 0.93% in the second quarter of 2026, due to net income growth.

However, within the Financial sector 601 other companies had a higher return on assets. While Return on assets, overall ranking has advanced in the Sep 30 2026 quarter, so far to 2213, from total ROA ranking in the second quarter of 2026 at 2441.

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Return On Assets	(Sep 30 2026) III. Quarter	(Jun 30 2026) II. Quarter	(Mar 31 2026) I. Quarter	(Dec 31 2025) IV. Quarter	(Sep 30 2025) III. Quarter
Y / Y Total Assets Change	12.07 %	15 %	12.24 %	3.02 %	2.63 %
Y / Y Net Income Change	20.35 %	-22.61 %	-49.12 %	-11.32 %	15.41 %
Net Income (TTM) in million	198	186	199	226	233
Return On Assets (TTM)	0.96 %	0.93 %	1.03 %	1.21 %	1.26 %
FRME's Total Ranking	# 2213	# 2441	# 2081	# 2077	# 2112
Total Assets (TTM) in million	21,057	21,349	20,671	19,052	18,788
Seq. Total Assets Change	-1.37 %	3.28 %	8.49 %	1.4 %	1.21 %
Seq. Net Income Change	55.33 %	56.2 %	-50.66 %	0.53 %	-0.12 %

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Return On Assets Company Ranking
Within:	No.
Industry	# 63
Sector	# 602
Overall	# 2242

Return On Assets Statistics
High	Average	Low
1.64 %	1.18 %	0.61 %
		(Jun 30 2012)

Financial Statements
First Merchants's Assets	$ 21,057 million	FRME's Balance sheet
First Merchants's Income	$ 68 million	Quarterly FRME's Income Statement
FRME's Income by Division		See FRME's Income by Division

Annual Return On Assets	(Dec 31 2025) FY 2025	(Dec 31 2024) FY 2024	(Dec 31 2023) FY 2023	(Dec 31 2022) FY 2022	(Dec 31 2021) FY 2021
Y / Y Total Assets Change	3.89 %	-0.51 %	2.55 %	16.02 %	134.87 %
Total Assets in million	19,005	18,293	18,387	17,929	15,453
Y / Y Net Income Change	12.21 %	-10 %	0.76 %	8.06 %	38.31 %
Net Income in million	226	201	224	222	206
Annual Return On Assets	1.19 %	1.1 %	1.22 %	1.24 %	1.33 %

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Comment on FRME's ROA in the fiscal year ending 2025

In the fiscal year 2025 ROA improved to 1.19 % compared to prior year, due to annual net income growth of 12.21 % to $226.00 million, while value of First Merchants's overall assets grew just by 3.89 % to $19,005.02 million, compared to $19,005.02 a year before.

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Date modified: 2026-10-31T09:54:42+00:00

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