Compare Stocks: AMTB, BUSE, FRME, and IBCP

Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
AMTB Amerant Bancorp	$29.37 +2.4%	$28.85	$15.62 ▼ $30.60	$1.14B	0.83	327,478 shs	384,229 shs
BUSE First Busey	$30.00 +1.2%	$30.44	$22.00 ▼ $31.70	$2.45B	0.71	686,792 shs	924,608 shs
FRME First Merchants	$40.49 +1.1%	$42.26	$34.66 ▼ $45.33	$2.55B	0.84	446,408 shs	466,278 shs
IBCP Independent Bank	$35.62 +0.9%	$37.21	$29.83 ▼ $39.24	$790.74M	0.7	162,440 shs	139,787 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
AMTB Amerant Bancorp	+2.15%	-0.68%	+2.59%	+15.94%	+45.85%
BUSE First Busey	+1.21%	-0.50%	+0.03%	+0.67%	+24.38%
FRME First Merchants	+1.15%	-1.00%	-2.57%	-7.30%	+2.43%
IBCP Independent Bank	+0.91%	-1.66%	-2.97%	-1.68%	+12.61%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
AMTB Amerant Bancorp	$29.37 +2.4%	$28.85	$15.62 ▼ $30.60	$1.14B	0.83	327,478 shs	384,229 shs
BUSE First Busey	$30.00 +1.2%	$30.44	$22.00 ▼ $31.70	$2.45B	0.71	686,792 shs	924,608 shs
FRME First Merchants	$40.49 +1.1%	$42.26	$34.66 ▼ $45.33	$2.55B	0.84	446,408 shs	466,278 shs
IBCP Independent Bank	$35.62 +0.9%	$37.21	$29.83 ▼ $39.24	$790.74M	0.7	162,440 shs	139,787 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
AMTB Amerant Bancorp	+2.15%	-0.68%	+2.59%	+15.94%	+45.85%
BUSE First Busey	+1.21%	-0.50%	+0.03%	+0.67%	+24.38%
FRME First Merchants	+1.15%	-1.00%	-2.57%	-7.30%	+2.43%
IBCP Independent Bank	+0.91%	-1.66%	-2.97%	-1.68%	+12.61%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
AMTB Amerant Bancorp	2.83	Moderate Buy	$27.75	-5.53% Downside
BUSE First Busey	2.57	Moderate Buy	$32.00	6.67% Upside
FRME First Merchants	2.50	Moderate Buy	$49.00	21.02% Upside
IBCP Independent Bank	2.40	Hold	$39.50	10.89% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest AMTB, BUSE, FRME, and IBCP Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
9/22/2026	FRME First Merchants	Stephens Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Hold
9/18/2026	AMTB Amerant Bancorp	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Hold (C+) ➝ Buy (B-)
9/4/2026	IBCP Independent Bank	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy (B)
8/21/2026	BUSE First Busey	Zacks Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Strong-Buy ➝ Hold
8/12/2026	AMTB Amerant Bancorp	Stephens Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Overweight ➝ Equal Weight	$32.00
8/7/2026	BUSE First Busey	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy (B)
8/3/2026	FRME First Merchants	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Hold (C+) ➝ Buy (B)
8/3/2026	AMTB Amerant Bancorp	Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Market Perform	$26.00 ➝ $31.00
7/31/2026	BUSE First Busey	Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform	$32.00 ➝ $34.00
7/30/2026	BUSE First Busey	DA Davidson Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral	$30.00 ➝ $31.00
7/30/2026	BUSE First Busey	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight	$32.00 ➝ $35.00

(Data available from 9/25/2023 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
AMTB Amerant Bancorp	$676.04M	1.70	$2.01 per share	14.61	$23.13 per share	1.27
BUSE First Busey	$1.04B	2.37	$2.74 per share	10.96	$27.93 per share	1.07
FRME First Merchants	$1.05B	2.42	$4.41 per share	9.18	$42.22 per share	0.96
IBCP Independent Bank	$315.38M	2.51	$3.79 per share	9.40	$24.31 per share	1.47

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
AMTB Amerant Bancorp	$52.42M	$1.39	21.13	10.45	N/A	8.76%	8.30%	0.76%	10/27/2026 (Estimated)
BUSE First Busey	$135.26M	$2.42	12.40	10.99	N/A	21.00%	10.48%	1.40%	10/27/2026 (Estimated)
FRME First Merchants	$226M	$3.12	12.98	9.08	N/A	17.05%	8.86%	1.12%	10/28/2026 (Estimated)
IBCP Independent Bank	$68.54M	$3.44	10.35	9.20	N/A	22.32%	14.12%	1.29%	10/27/2026 (Estimated)

Latest AMTB, BUSE, FRME, and IBCP Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
7/28/2026	Q2 2026	BUSE First Busey	$0.6330	$0.69	+$0.0570	$0.69	$197.59 million	$194.27 million
7/23/2026	Q2 2026	AMTB Amerant Bancorp	$0.3925	$0.53	+$0.1375	$0.53	$98.64 million	$183.31 million
7/23/2026	Q2 2026	IBCP Independent Bank	$0.8440	$0.90	+$0.0560	$0.90	$60.08 million	$61.64 million
7/22/2026	Q2 2026	FRME First Merchants	$1.02	$0.74	-$0.28	$0.70	$202.78 million	$202.49 million

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
AMTB Amerant Bancorp	$0.36	1.23%	N/A	25.90%	N/A
BUSE First Busey	$1.04	3.47%	+2.59%	42.98%	10 Years
FRME First Merchants	$1.48	3.66%	+6.58%	47.44%	13 Years
IBCP Independent Bank	$1.12	3.14%	+5.39%	32.56%	11 Years

Latest AMTB, BUSE, FRME, and IBCP Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
8/14/2026	FRME First Merchants	quarterly	$0.37	3.52%	9/4/2026	9/4/2026	9/18/2026
7/22/2026	AMTB Amerant Bancorp	quarterly	$0.09	1.23%	8/14/2026	8/14/2026	8/28/2026
7/21/2026	IBCP Independent Bank	quarterly	$0.28	2.91%	8/4/2026	8/4/2026	8/14/2026
7/14/2026	BUSE First Busey	quarterly	$0.26	3.48%	7/24/2026	7/24/2026	7/31/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
AMTB Amerant Bancorp	0.87	0.86	0.84
BUSE First Busey	0.11	0.90	0.90
FRME First Merchants	0.56	0.95	0.95
IBCP Independent Bank	0.32	0.95	0.94

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
AMTB Amerant Bancorp	42.11%
BUSE First Busey	56.49%
FRME First Merchants	73.92%
IBCP Independent Bank	79.43%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
AMTB Amerant Bancorp	2.70%
BUSE First Busey	3.77%
FRME First Merchants	1.77%
IBCP Independent Bank	5.91%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
AMTB Amerant Bancorp	694	39.19 million	38.13 million	N/A
BUSE First Busey	1,948	82.58 million	79.46 million	Optionable
FRME First Merchants	2,086	62.80 million	61.69 million	Optionable
IBCP Independent Bank	826	22.20 million	20.89 million	Optionable

AMTB, BUSE, FRME, and IBCP Headlines

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AMTB, BUSE, FRME, and IBCP Company Descriptions

Amerant Bancorp NYSE:AMTB

$29.37 +0.68 (+2.38%)

Closing price 09/24/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$29.30 -0.07 (-0.25%)

As of 04:02 AM Eastern

Amerant Bancorp Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Amerant Bank, N.A. that provides banking products and services to individuals and businesses in the United States and internationally. The company offers checking, savings, and money market accounts; and certificates of deposits. It also provides variable and fixed rate commercial real estate loans; loans secured by owner-occupied properties; loans to domestic and foreign individuals primarily secured by personal residence; working capital loans, asset-based lending, participations in shared national credits, purchased receivables, and small business administration loans; loans to financial institutions and acceptances; and consumer loans and overdrafts, such as automobile, personal, or loans secured by cash or securities and revolving credit card agreements. In addition, the company offers trust and estate planning products and services to high-net-worth customers, brokerage and investment advisory services in global capital markets, and wealth management and fiduciary services. Further, it provides debit and credit cards, night depositories, direct deposits, cashier's checks, safe deposit boxes, letters of credit, and treasury management services, including wire transfer, remote deposit capture, and automated clearinghouse services; derivative instruments; and online and mobile banking, account balances, statements and other documents, online transfers and bill payment, and electronic delivery of customer statements services, as well as automated teller machines, and banking by mobile devices, telephone, and mail. As of December 31, 2021, the company operated 24 banking centers comprising 17 in Florida and 7 in Texas. It also operates loan production offices in Tampa, Florida. The company was formerly known as Mercantil Bank Holding Corporation and changed its name to Amerant Bancorp Inc. in June 2019. Amerant Bancorp Inc. was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida.

First Busey NASDAQ:BUSE

$30.00 +0.36 (+1.21%)

Closing price 09/24/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$30.00 0.00 (0.00%)

As of 04:02 AM Eastern

First Busey Corporation operates as the bank holding company for Busey Bank that engages in the provision of retail and commercial banking products and services to individual, corporate, institutional, and governmental customers in the United States. It operates through three segments: Banking, Wealth Management, and FirsTech. The Banking segment provides banking services to individual customers, such as demand and savings deposits, money transfers, safe deposit services, individual retirement accounts and other fiduciary services, automated teller machines, and technology-based networks, as well as loan products, including residential real estate, home equity lines of credit, and consumer loans. This segment also offers banking services to corporate customers, including commercial, commercial real estate, real estate construction, and agricultural loans, as well as cash management services. The Wealth Management segment offers a range of investment and asset management, investment, brokerage, investment strategy consulting, fiduciary, philanthropic advisory, tax preparation, business succession planning, and employee retirement plan services to individuals, businesses, and foundations; and professional farm management services to the agricultural industry. The FirsTech segment provides payment technology solutions comprising online, mobile, and voice-recognition bill payments; money management and credit card networks; direct debit services; lockbox remittance processing for payments made by mail; and walk-in payments, as well as tools to help clients with billing, reconciliation, bill reminders, and treasury services. The company was founded in 1868 and is headquartered in Champaign, Illinois.

First Merchants NASDAQ:FRME

$40.49 +0.46 (+1.15%)

Closing price 09/24/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$40.48 -0.01 (-0.01%)

As of 04:13 AM Eastern

First Merchants Corporation operates as the financial holding company for First Merchants Bank that provides community banking services. The company offers a range of financial services, including time, savings, and demand deposits; and consumer, commercial, agri-business, public finance, and real estate mortgage loans. It also provides personal and corporate trust; brokerage and private wealth management; and letters of credit, repurchase agreements, and other corporate services. The company operates banking locations in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan counties. It also offers its services through electronic and mobile delivery channels. First Merchants Corporation was founded in 1893 and is headquartered in Muncie, Indiana.

Independent Bank NASDAQ:IBCP

$35.62 +0.32 (+0.91%)

Closing price 09/24/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$35.62 0.00 (0.00%)

As of 04:03 AM Eastern

Independent Bank Corporation operates as the bank holding company for Independent Bank that provides commercial banking services to individuals and businesses in rural and suburban communities in Michigan. It offers checking and savings accounts, commercial lending, direct and indirect consumer financing, mortgage lending, and safe deposit box services. The company also provides title insurance services and investment services, as well as automatic teller machines, and internet and mobile banking services. In addition, it operates through branches, drive-thru facilities, and loan production offices. Independent Bank Corporation was founded in 1864 and is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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