First Merchants (FRME) Return on Sales (2010 - 2026)

First Merchants (FRME) has 17 years of Return on Sales data on file, last reported at 0.47% in Q1 2026.

• For the quarter ending Q1 2026, Return on Sales fell 86.0% year-over-year to 0.47%; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at 0.23% (down 35.0% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was 0.67%, up 61.0% from the prior year.
• Return on Sales for Q1 2026 stood at 0.47%, up from 0.05% in the prior quarter.
• Across five years, Return on Sales topped out at 1.47% in Q3 2023 and bottomed at 0.66% in Q4 2022.
• The 5-year median for Return on Sales is 0.09% (2023), against an average of 0.4%.
• The widest annual swing landed in 2022, when Return on Sales slumped 126 bps; it then surged 138 bps in 2023.
• A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.66% in 2022, then surged by 97 bps to 0.02% in 2023, then surged by 487 bps to 0.08% in 2024, then plunged by 165 bps to 0.05% in 2025, then surged by 1022 bps to 0.47% in 2026.
• The last three Return on Sales figures came in at 0.47% (Q1 2026), 0.05% (Q4 2025), and 0.52% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

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