First Merchants (FRME) closed at $40.59 on October 30, 2026, down 1.2% from the previous close, on volume of 402,313 shares (30-day average 481,979).
Data as of October 30, 2026.
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First Merchants Corporation Announces Third Quarter 2026 Results
Globe Newswire (Wed, 21-Oct 4:05 PM ET)
First Merchants Corporation Announces Cash Dividend on Its Preferred Stock
Globe Newswire (Thu, 15-Oct 3:05 PM ET)
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Globe Newswire (Wed, 30-Sep 1:45 PM ET)
First Merchants Corporation Announces Pricing of Subordinated Notes Offering
Globe Newswire (Wed, 23-Sep 5:49 PM ET)
First Merchants Corporation Announces Cash Dividend
Globe Newswire (Fri, 14-Aug 4:05 PM ET)
First Merchants Corp, through its subsidiaries, provides its customers with financial services delivered locally by bankers. It offers personal banking, business banking, real estate mortgage lending, cash management services, brokerage, wealth management, and insurance. The company reports in only one segment, which is community banking.
First Merchants trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol FRME.
As of October 30, 2026, FRME stock price declined to $40.59 with 402,313 million shares trading.
FRME has a beta of 0.03, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. FRME has a correlation of 0.00 to the broad based SPY ETF.
FRME has a market cap of $2.52 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.
Last quarter First Merchants reported $199 million in Revenue and $1.10 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-5 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.06.
In the last 3 years, FRME traded as high as $46.13 and as low as $26.85.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that FRME belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, IWM, VB, DFSV, VBR.
FRME has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +17.6% while the SPY ETF gained +12.3%. However, in the short term, FRME had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning -5.3% vs +2.1% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, FRME shares have fared better than the market returning +2.5% compared to SPY -1.0%.
FRME support price is $40.53 and resistance is $41.65 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that FRME shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
