First Merchants (FRME) Interest Expense - Debt (2010 - 2026)

First Merchants (FRME) has 17 years of Interest Expense - Debt data on file, last reported at $1.2 million in Q1 2026.

• For the quarter ending Q1 2026, Interest Expense - Debt fell 87.15% year-over-year to $1.2 million; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at -$4.1 million (down 121.77% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was $4.1 million, down 44.78% from the prior year.
• Interest Expense - Debt for Q1 2026 stood at $1.2 million, up from -$23.7 million in the prior quarter.
• Across five years, Interest Expense - Debt topped out at $9.7 million in Q2 2025 and bottomed at -$23.7 million in Q4 2025.
• The 5-year median for Interest Expense - Debt is $2.7 million (2024), against an average of $2.8 million.
• The widest annual swing landed in 2023, when Interest Expense - Debt jumped 479.97%; it then slumped 1616.79% in 2025.
• A 5-year view of Interest Expense - Debt shows it stood at $1.5 million in 2022, then soared by 321.98% to $6.4 million in 2023, then plunged by 75.74% to $1.6 million in 2024, then plunged by 1616.79% to -$23.7 million in 2025, then jumped by 105.08% to $1.2 million in 2026.
• The last three Interest Expense - Debt figures came in at $1.2 million (Q1 2026), -$23.7 million (Q4 2025), and $8.6 million (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

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