FRME Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (First Merchants | NASDAQ:FRME)

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 June 24, 2026, FRME stock price climbed to $42.59 with 405,659 million shares trading.

FRME has a beta of 0.68, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. FRME has a correlation of 0.11 to the broad based SPY ETF.

FRME has a market cap of $2.66 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter First Merchants reported $157 million in Revenue and $1.03 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-28 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.07.

In the last 3 years, FRME traded as high as $46.13 and as low as $25.70.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that FRME belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, IWM, VB, VBR, VXF.

FRME has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +18.7%, while SPY returned +23.4%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in FRME shares. However, FRME has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +13.4% and +4.8%, while SPY returned +12.2% and -0.3%, respectively. This indicates FRME has been having a stronger performance recently.

FRME support price is $41.21 and resistance is $42.61 (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.