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First Merchants Bank: Loan Portfolio

Data as of · Call Report Schedule RC-C How we update

The loan book by category. Concentration is what supervisors read here: a portfolio weighted heavily toward one collateral type carries that sector's cycle, which is the mechanism behind most community-bank failures.

The standout move of Q2 2026 was in Loans held for sale: 80.6% lower than in Q1 2026, at $77.9M. Within Indiana, First Merchants Bank is 17th of 87 on loan-to-deposit ratio, 93.02% as of Q2 2026, above the middle of the field. The median for banks in the $10B-100B asset tier is 86.83% on loan-to-deposit ratio. First Merchants Bank sits 6.19 points higher, at 93.02% (Q2 2026).

Loan totals

Loan totals for First Merchants Bank, Q2 2026
Line item Q2 2026
Total loans and leases $15.61B
Net loans and leases $15.37B
Loans held for sale $77.9M
Loans to total assets 73.21%
Loan-to-deposit ratio 93.02%
Net loans to equity capital 5.62%

Portfolio mix (share of total loans)

Portfolio mix (share of total loans) for First Merchants Bank, Q2 2026
Line item Q2 2026
Commercial real estate (nonfarm nonresidential) 24.82%
Multifamily (5+ residential) 4.92%
Commercial and industrial 30.32%
Consumer 0.96%
Credit cards 0.00%
Farm 1.44%
Loans to depository institutions 0.00%
State and political subdivisions 6.87%

Concentration measures

Concentration measures for First Merchants Bank, Q2 2026
Line item Q2 2026
CRE concentration (Tier 1 capital + allowance) 181.49%
Construction concentration (Tier 1 capital + allowance) 38.49%

Supervisory definition (FFIEC UBPR page 7B): construction and land development, multifamily, non-owner-occupied nonfarm nonresidential and unsecured CRE loans, over Tier 1 capital plus the allowance for credit losses. Owner-occupied CRE and farmland are excluded. The 2006 interagency guidance flags CRE above 300% of capital, or construction and development above 100%, for heightened supervisory scrutiny. These are screening thresholds, not limits.

Loan earnings

Loan earnings for First Merchants Bank, Q2 2026
Line item Q2 2026
Yield on loans 6.11%
Interest income on loans $238.4M

Loan Portfolio trend

Last 12 quarters as filed. Every value plotted here also appears in the tables above.

Total loans and deposits
Portfolio mix over time
Concentration to capital

Loan Portfolio by quarter

Values plotted above, First Merchants Bank, oldest first
Quarter Total loansTotal depositsCommercial real estateCommercial and industrialConsumer
Q3 2023 $12.30B $14.74B 22.87% 28.38% 1.46%
Q4 2023 $12.50B $14.92B 22.45% 29.36% 1.38%
Q1 2024 $12.48B $14.96B 21.89% 29.82% 1.30%
Q2 2024 $12.67B $14.62B 21.47% 31.17% 1.28%
Q3 2024 $12.69B $14.44B 21.21% 31.86% 1.29%
Q4 2024 $12.87B $14.59B 21.14% 31.96% 1.32%
Q1 2025 $13.03B $14.51B 20.85% 33.06% 1.08%
Q2 2025 $13.33B $14.86B 20.56% 33.33% 1.06%
Q3 2025 $13.61B $14.92B 20.71% 33.82% 1.02%
Q4 2025 $13.81B $15.34B 20.47% 32.42% 1.13%
Q1 2026 $15.66B $16.51B 24.22% 29.45% 0.98%
Q2 2026 $15.61B $16.78B 24.82% 30.32% 0.96%

First Merchants Bank loan portfolio, all the way back

Loan Portfolio back to 2001 · peer percentiles on every line item · Excel export

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Source: Call Report Schedule RC-C, as filed with the FFIEC and standardized by BankRegReports. Dollar amounts are as reported, point-in-time; income statement items are year-to-date through the report date. See the full First Merchants Bank profile, peer group comparison, or how this data updates.

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