First Merchants (FRME) Interest Coverage Ratio (2016 - 2025)
First Merchants' Interest Coverage Ratio history spans 10 years, with the latest figure at 1.28 for Q4 2025.
- For Q4 2025, Interest Coverage Ratio fell 32.22% year-over-year to 1.28; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 1.01, down 14.53%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 1.0, 11.31% down from the prior year.
- Interest Coverage Ratio reached 1.28 in Q4 2025 per FRME's latest filing, down from 0.92 in the prior quarter.
- In the past five years, Interest Coverage Ratio ranged from a high of 3.53 in Q4 2021 to a low of 46.4 in Q2 2022.
- Average Interest Coverage Ratio over 5 years is 11.15, with a median of 0.95 recorded in 2024.
- The largest YoY upside for Interest Coverage Ratio was 157.91% in 2021 against a maximum downside of 1013.77% in 2021.
- A 5-year view of Interest Coverage Ratio shows it stood at 3.53 in 2021, then plummeted by 124.2% to 0.85 in 2022, then rose by 10.01% to 0.77 in 2023, then dropped by 25.79% to 0.97 in 2024, then crashed by 32.22% to 1.28 in 2025.
- Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for FRME's Interest Coverage Ratio are 1.28 (Q4 2025), 0.92 (Q3 2025), and 0.9 (Q2 2025).