Compare Stocks: EQBK, BUSE, FFBC, and FRME

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
BUSE First Busey	$30.32 +0.6%	$30.42	$22.00 ▼ $31.70	$2.50B	0.71	559,927 shs	2.95 million shs
EQBK Equity Bancshares	$49.00 -0.2%	$50.27	$38.60 ▼ $52.27	$1.01B	0.76	94,167 shs	193,961 shs
FFBC First Financial Bancorp.	$32.09 -0.1%	$33.53	$23.06 ▼ $36.24	$3.37B	0.91	662,441 shs	2.53 million shs
FRME First Merchants	$40.87 -0.1%	$42.53	$34.66 ▼ $45.33	$2.57B	0.84	362,759 shs	1.55 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
BUSE First Busey	0.00%	-0.39%	+0.36%	+7.40%	+23.76%
EQBK Equity Bancshares	0.00%	-1.85%	-1.89%	+5.13%	+19.65%
FFBC First Financial Bancorp.	0.00%	-1.26%	-2.61%	+1.52%	+25.60%
FRME First Merchants	0.00%	-0.58%	-2.55%	+0.26%	+2.56%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
BUSE First Busey	$30.32 +0.6%	$30.42	$22.00 ▼ $31.70	$2.50B	0.71	559,927 shs	2.95 million shs
EQBK Equity Bancshares	$49.00 -0.2%	$50.27	$38.60 ▼ $52.27	$1.01B	0.76	94,167 shs	193,961 shs
FFBC First Financial Bancorp.	$32.09 -0.1%	$33.53	$23.06 ▼ $36.24	$3.37B	0.91	662,441 shs	2.53 million shs
FRME First Merchants	$40.87 -0.1%	$42.53	$34.66 ▼ $45.33	$2.57B	0.84	362,759 shs	1.55 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
BUSE First Busey	0.00%	-0.39%	+0.36%	+7.40%	+23.76%
EQBK Equity Bancshares	0.00%	-1.85%	-1.89%	+5.13%	+19.65%
FFBC First Financial Bancorp.	0.00%	-1.26%	-2.61%	+1.52%	+25.60%
FRME First Merchants	0.00%	-0.58%	-2.55%	+0.26%	+2.56%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
BUSE First Busey	2.57	Moderate Buy	$32.00	5.54% Upside
EQBK Equity Bancshares	2.67	Moderate Buy	$55.33	12.93% Upside
FFBC First Financial Bancorp.	2.50	Moderate Buy	$33.67	4.91% Upside
FRME First Merchants	2.50	Moderate Buy	$49.00	19.89% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest EQBK, BUSE, FFBC, and FRME Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
9/8/2026	EQBK Equity Bancshares	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight	$58.00 ➝ $60.00
9/4/2026	FFBC First Financial Bancorp.	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy (B)
9/4/2026	EQBK Equity Bancshares	DA Davidson Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral	$51.00 ➝ $54.00
9/4/2026	EQBK Equity Bancshares	Hovde Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Market Perform	$51.00 ➝ $53.00
8/21/2026	BUSE First Busey	Zacks Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Strong-Buy ➝ Hold
8/11/2026	EQBK Equity Bancshares	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Hold (C+) ➝ Buy (B-)
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)
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 9/20/2023 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
BUSE First Busey	$1.04B	2.40	$2.71 per share	11.19	$27.93 per share	1.09
EQBK Equity Bancshares	$367.98M	2.74	$4.64 per share	10.55	$38.62 per share	1.27
FFBC First Financial Bancorp.	$1.26B	2.67	$3.15 per share	10.19	$28.11 per share	1.14
FRME First Merchants	$1.05B	2.44	$4.43 per share	9.23	$42.22 per share	0.97

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
BUSE First Busey	$135.26M	$2.42	12.53	11.15	N/A	21.00%	10.48%	1.40%	10/27/2026 (Estimated)
EQBK Equity Bancshares	$22.73M	$1.67	29.34	8.89	N/A	8.26%	13.34%	1.46%	10/13/2026 (Estimated)
FFBC First Financial Bancorp.	$255.60M	$2.83	11.34	9.30	N/A	20.77%	11.13%	1.49%	10/22/2026 (Estimated)
FRME First Merchants	$226M	$3.12	13.10	9.18	N/A	17.05%	8.86%	1.12%	10/28/2026 (Estimated)

Latest EQBK, BUSE, FFBC, and FRME Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
10/13/2026	Q3 2026	EQBK Equity Bancshares	$1.31	N/A	N/A	N/A	$84.89 million	N/A
7/28/2026	Q2 2026	BUSE First Busey	$0.6330	$0.69	+$0.0570	$0.69	$197.59 million	$194.27 million
7/22/2026	Q2 2026	FRME First Merchants	$1.02	$0.74	-$0.28	$0.70	$202.78 million	$202.49 million
7/21/2026	Q2 2026	FFBC First Financial Bancorp.	$0.78	$0.80	+$0.02	$0.73	$270.29 million	$264.17 million
7/14/2026	Q2 2026	EQBK Equity Bancshares	$1.24	$1.41	+$0.17	$1.27	$85.10 million	$81.93 million

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
BUSE First Busey	$1.04	3.43%	+2.59%	42.98%	10 Years
EQBK Equity Bancshares	$0.72	1.47%	N/A	43.11%	3 Years
FFBC First Financial Bancorp.	$1.04	3.24%	+1.27%	36.75%	1 Years
FRME First Merchants	$1.48	3.62%	+6.58%	47.44%	13 Years

Latest EQBK, BUSE, FFBC, and FRME Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
9/10/2026	EQBK Equity Bancshares	quarterly	$0.22	1.75%	9/30/2026	9/30/2026	10/15/2026
8/14/2026	FRME First Merchants	quarterly	$0.37	3.52%	9/4/2026	9/4/2026	9/18/2026
7/17/2026	FFBC First Financial Bancorp.	quarterly	$0.26	3.25%	9/1/2026	9/1/2026	9/15/2026
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
BUSE First Busey	0.11	0.90	0.90
EQBK Equity Bancshares	0.58	0.93	0.93
FFBC First Financial Bancorp.	0.32	0.85	0.85
FRME First Merchants	0.56	0.95	0.95

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Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
BUSE First Busey	56.49%
EQBK Equity Bancshares	71.80%
FFBC First Financial Bancorp.	77.23%
FRME First Merchants	73.92%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
BUSE First Busey	3.77%
EQBK Equity Bancshares	14.50%
FFBC First Financial Bancorp.	1.08%
FRME First Merchants	1.77%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
BUSE First Busey	1,948	82.58 million	79.46 million	Optionable
EQBK Equity Bancshares	909	20.59 million	17.61 million	N/A
FFBC First Financial Bancorp.	2,199	104.97 million	103.84 million	Optionable
FRME First Merchants	2,086	62.80 million	61.69 million	Optionable

EQBK, BUSE, FFBC, and FRME Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

KBRA Assigns Ratings to First Merchants Corporation

September 17 at 4:51 PM | businesswire.com

First Merchants: I Expect To Continue Underperforming (Rating Downgrade)

September 17 at 7:50 AM | seekingalpha.com

First Merchants Corporation (NASDAQ:FRME) Receives Average Recommendation of "Moderate Buy" from Analysts

September 14, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Jupiter Topco LLC Acquires Shares of 27,284 First Merchants Corporation $FRME

September 6, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Legal & General Group Plc Invests $2.35 Million in First Merchants Corporation $FRME

September 6, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Wellington Management Group LLP Sells 310,614 Shares of First Merchants Corporation $FRME

September 5, 2026 | marketbeat.com

First Merchants Corporation (NASDAQ:FRME) Declares Quarterly Dividend of $0.37

September 2, 2026 | marketbeat.com

415,568 Shares in First Merchants Corporation $FRME Purchased by Bank of New York Mellon Corp

September 1, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Susquehanna International Group LLP Sells 50,160 Shares of First Merchants Corporation $FRME

August 31, 2026 | marketbeat.com

The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company Takes Position in First Merchants Corporation $FRME

August 29, 2026 | marketbeat.com

277,911 Shares in First Merchants Corporation $FRME Acquired by Empowered Funds LLC

August 29, 2026 | marketbeat.com

5,324,728 Shares in First Merchants Corporation $FRME Purchased by BlackRock Inc.

August 28, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Sanctuary Advisors LLC Purchases Shares of 31,235 First Merchants Corporation $FRME

August 27, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Deutsche Bank AG Makes New $2.94 Million Investment in First Merchants Corporation $FRME

August 27, 2026 | marketbeat.com

27,675 Shares in First Merchants Corporation $FRME Purchased by Quantbot Technologies LP

August 26, 2026 | marketbeat.com

27,500 Shares in First Merchants Corporation $FRME Purchased by Paradigm Capital Management Inc. NY

August 25, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Ieq Capital LLC Purchases Shares of 68,021 First Merchants Corporation $FRME

August 25, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Bank of America Corp DE Increases Holdings in First Merchants Corporation $FRME

August 25, 2026 | marketbeat.com

William Blair Investment Management LLC Purchases Shares of 622,443 First Merchants Corporation $FRME

August 23, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Top Executive Makes a Notable Move in First Merchants Stock

August 21, 2026 | tipranks.com

OneAscent Financial Services LLC Buys New Shares in First Merchants Corporation $FRME

August 21, 2026 | marketbeat.com

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EQBK, BUSE, FFBC, and FRME Company Descriptions

First Busey NASDAQ:BUSE

$30.32 +0.17 (+0.56%)

Closing price 09/18/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$30.79 +0.47 (+1.56%)

As of 09/18/2026 07:57 PM 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.

Equity Bancshares NYSE:EQBK

$49.00 -0.09 (-0.19%)

Closing price 09/18/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$49.03 +0.03 (+0.07%)

As of 09/18/2026 05:25 PM Eastern

Equity Bancshares, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Equity Bank that provides a range of banking, mortgage banking, and financial services to individual and corporate customers. The company accepts various demand, savings, money market, and time deposits. Its loan products include commercial and industrial, commercial real estate-backed, commercial lines of credit, working capital, term, equipment financing, acquisition, expansion and development, borrowing base, real estate construction, homebuilder, agricultural, government guaranteed, and other loan products to national and regional companies, restaurant franchisees, hoteliers, real estate developers, manufacturing and industrial companies, agribusiness companies, and other businesses. The company's loan products also comprise various consumer loans to individuals and professionals, including residential real estate loans, home equity loans and lines of credit, installment loans, unsecured and secured personal lines of credit, overdraft protection, and letters of credit. It also provides debit cards; online banking solutions, such as access to account balances, online transfers, online bill payment, and electronic delivery of customer statements; mobile banking solutions comprising remote check deposits with mobile bill pay; ATMs; and treasury management, wire transfer, automated clearing house, and stop payment services. In addition, the company offers cash management deposit products, such as lockbox, remote deposit capture, positive pay, reverse positive pay, account reconciliation services, zero balance accounts, and sweep accounts, as well as banking services through telephone, mail, and personal appointments. As of December 31, 2021, it operated a network of 69 branches in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Wichita, Kansas.

First Financial Bancorp. NASDAQ:FFBC

$32.09 -0.03 (-0.09%)

Closing price 09/18/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$32.08 -0.02 (-0.05%)

As of 09/18/2026 07:30 PM Eastern

First Financial Bancorp. operates as the bank holding company for First Financial Bank that provides commercial banking and related services to individuals and businesses in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois. The company offers checking, savings, and money-market accounts; and accepts various deposit products, such as interest-bearing and non-interest-bearing accounts, time deposits, and cash management services for commercial customers. It also provides real estate loans secured by residential property, such as one to four family residential housing units or commercial property comprising owner-occupied and/or investor income producing real estate consisting of apartments, shopping centers, and office buildings; commercial and industrial loans for various purposes, including inventory, receivables, and equipment, as well as equipment and leasehold improvement financing for franchisees; consumer loans comprising new and used vehicle loans, second mortgages on residential real estate, and unsecured loans; and home equity lines of credit. In addition, the company offers commercial financing to the insurance industry, registered investment advisors, certified public accountants, indirect auto finance companies, and restaurant franchisees. Further, it provides a range of trust and wealth management services; lease and equipment financing services; and currency payments, foreign exchange hedging, and other advisory products. First Financial Bancorp. was founded in 1863 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

First Merchants NASDAQ:FRME

$40.87 -0.03 (-0.07%)

Closing price 09/18/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$40.86 0.00 (-0.01%)

As of 09/18/2026 07:30 PM 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.

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