First Merchants (FRME) Interest Expenses (2010 - 2026)

First Merchants (FRME) has 17 years of Interest Expenses data on file, last reported at $97.3 million in Q1 2026.

• For the quarter ending Q1 2026, Interest Expenses rose 5.44% year-over-year to $97.3 million; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at $393.8 million (down 4.02% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was $388.8 million, down 8.93% from the prior year.
• Interest Expenses for Q1 2026 stood at $97.3 million, down from $98.4 million in the prior quarter.
• Across five years, Interest Expenses topped out at $110.0 million in Q3 2024 and bottomed at $2.1 million in Q3 2022.
• The 5-year median for Interest Expenses is $96.7 million (2025), against an average of $76.6 million.
• The widest annual swing landed in 2022, when Interest Expenses jumped 4643.28%; it then tumbled 67.15% in 2023.
• A 5-year view of Interest Expenses shows it stood at $79.0 million in 2022, then surged by 35.31% to $106.9 million in 2023, then retreated by 6.22% to $100.3 million in 2024, then dropped by 1.89% to $98.4 million in 2025, then fell by 1.13% to $97.3 million in 2026.
• The last three Interest Expenses figures came in at $97.3 million (Q1 2026), $98.4 million (Q4 2025), and $101.4 million (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

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