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

First Merchants (FRME) has 17 years of Interest Expense - Deposits data on file, last reported at $84.1 million in Q1 2026.

• For the quarter ending Q1 2026, Interest Expense - Deposits rose 4.4% year-over-year to $84.1 million; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at $347.8 million (down 5.58% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was $344.3 million, down 10.84% from the prior year.
• Interest Expense - Deposits for Q1 2026 stood at $84.1 million, down from $88.7 million in the prior quarter.
• Across five years, Interest Expense - Deposits topped out at $99.2 million in Q2 2024 and bottomed at $4.3 million in Q1 2022.
• The 5-year median for Interest Expense - Deposits is $84.2 million (2025), against an average of $69.6 million.
• The widest annual swing landed in 2022, when Interest Expense - Deposits plunged 30.74%; it then surged 1080.37% in 2023.
• A 5-year view of Interest Expense - Deposits shows it stood at $33.5 million in 2022, then soared by 188.38% to $96.7 million in 2023, then fell by 7.06% to $89.8 million in 2024, then dropped by 1.3% to $88.7 million in 2025, then dropped by 5.16% to $84.1 million in 2026.
• The last three Interest Expense - Deposits figures came in at $84.1 million (Q1 2026), $88.7 million (Q4 2025), and $90.8 million (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

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