# Home BancShares (HOMB.US)

Canonical: https://gigainvestors.com/s/HOMB

Analysis as of: 2026-10-16T07:29:05.545Z. Financial observations: FY2015–FY2025.

Listing currency: USD. Reporting currency: USD.

## Verdict

Not a wonderful business

Quality tests for Buy: not passed (profit record: pass; earnings resilience is evidence only). Published buy qualification: no.

Share price: $28.87 per share; close as of 2026-10-15.

Estimated value: low $32.62 per share, central $40.78 per share, high $54.37 per share. Buy at or below the central value $40.78 per share. Valuation as of 2026-10-16T07:29:05.545Z; scenarios are not confidence intervals.

Expected annual return: 11.7% at the stated quote. About 11.7% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%). required return 10.0% a year (10% floor; US 10-year bond 5.1% + 4 points).

## Checklist

### understandable: pass

- Financial history: 10 years

- Profitable years in the last ten: 10

- Required profitable years: 9

- Return on common equity variation (informational): 0.20×

Chart: Net income; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: $177M

- FY2017: $135M

- FY2018: $300M

- FY2019: $290M

- FY2020: $214M

- FY2021: $319M

- FY2022: $305M

- FY2023: $393M

- FY2024: $402M

- FY2025: $475M

### moat: pass

- Tangible common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity

- Bank / P&C ROTE, median of available years: 16.7%

- Required median return: 12.0%

- Return uses tangible common equity: Yes

- Bank ROTE, second-lowest year: 13.4%

- Cost / income, median: 42.0%

- Years with reported combined ratio: 0

Chart: Return on tangible common equity; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: 19.0%

- FY2017: 11.0%

- FY2018: 22.3%

- FY2019: 19.1%

- FY2020: 13.4%

- FY2021: 18.0%

- FY2022: 14.7%

- FY2023: 16.8%

- FY2024: 15.9%

- FY2025: 16.6%

### economics: pass

- Tangible common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity

- Book value per share + reinvested dividends, annualized return: 15.7%

- Book return interval: 10 years

- Starting book value per share: $5.84

- Ending book value per share: $14.50

Chart: Annual book + dividend return; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: 19.2%

- FY2017: 28.4%

- FY2018: 1.3%

- FY2019: 23.3%

- FY2020: 13.1%

- FY2021: 16.5%

- FY2022: 5.1%

- FY2023: 15.7%

- FY2024: 15.6%

- FY2025: 21.4%

### management: fail

- Tangible common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity

- ordinary share count growth exceeds 2% annually in both the full and five-year windows

- Diluted shares, 10-year annual growth: 3.7%

- Diluted shares, 5-year annual growth: 3.6%

- Share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: 3.7%

- Five-year share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: 3.6%

- Flagged crisis recapitalisations: 0

- Book created / earnings retained after dividends and buybacks: 1.18×

- Book value created per share: $8.67

- Earnings retained per share after dividends and buybacks: $7.34

Chart: Shares (first year = 100); fiscal year observations.

- FY2015: 100

- FY2016: 103

- FY2017: 110

- FY2018: 127

- FY2019: 122

- FY2020: 121

- FY2021: 120

- FY2022: 142

- FY2023: 148

- FY2024: 146

- FY2025: 144

### accounting: pass

- Financial accounting warning count: 0

- Deposits, annualized growth: 10.5%

- Known restatement years: 0

- Years loan growth exceeded twice deposit growth: 0

- Years credit losses exceeded peer median: 0

## Holders

- [Bruce Berkowitz](https://gigainvestors.com/fairx): tracked 13F investor; follow the investor page for holding quarter and amounts.

## Price story

The price assumes profits grow 4.3% a year forever · "HOMB Q1 Deep Dive: Margin Expansion and Deposit Growth Drive Outperformance Amid Uncertainty" (finance.yahoo.com, Jul 2025) · net income +18.2%

Story as of 2026-10-16T09:58:53.514Z; price observation 2026-10-15.

The price assumes profits grow 4.3% a year forever

- 2025-06-23: HOMB Q1 Deep Dive: Margin Expansion and Deposit Growth Drive Outperformance Amid Uncertainty ([finance.yahoo.com](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/homb-q1-deep-dive-margin-184035838.html))

### Net income · FY2025

net income +18.2%; source https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1331520/000133152026000051/homb-20251231.htm; observed 2026-02-27.

- FY2016: $177M 

- FY2017: $135M 

- FY2018: $300M 

- FY2019: $290M 

- FY2020: $214M 

- FY2021: $319M 

- FY2022: $305M 

- FY2023: $393M 

- FY2024: $402M 

- FY2025: $475M 

## Owner memo

Memo as of 2026-10-16T08:06:05.509Z.

### How it makes money

Operates in regional banking; annual sales are USD 1.1 billion.

- Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1331520/000133152026000051/homb-20251231.htm#000133152026000051 (filed 2026-02-27); FY2025: revenue 1090869000.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); HOMB.US: Home BancShares, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Centennial Bank that provides commercial and retail banking, and related financial services to businesses, real estate developers and investors, individuals, and municipalities in the United States. The company offers deposit services, including checking, savings, and money market accounts, as well as certificates of deposit. It also provides loans comprising non-farm/non-residential real estate, construction/land development, residential mortgage, consumer, agricultural, and commercial and industrial loans. In addition, the company offers other banking services, such as internet and mobile banking, voice response information, cash management, overdraft protection, direct deposit, and automatic account transfer services, as well as safe deposit boxes and the United States savings bonds. Further, it provides trust, wealth management, and custodial services, as well as trustee services, escrow, and paying agent services. Additionally, the company writes policies for commercial and personal lines of business, including insurance for property, casualty, life, health, and employee benefits. It operates its branches in Arkansas, Florida, Texas, South Alabama, and New York City. Home BancShares, Inc. was founded in 1903 and is headquartered in Conway, Arkansas.

### Why customers stay

It earns 16.7% on shareholders’ money, excluding intangible assets.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-27); 10-year return on tangible equity observations [[2016,0.19023492368953474],[2017,0.11009290206692633],[2018,0.22275471569396596],[2019,0.1909193953912529],[2020,0.13386225386312778],[2021,0.18047736798723277],[2022,0.14749421884044386],[2023,0.1676281072262902],[2024,0.15946472569273065],[2025,0.16587128117013947]]; median 0.16674969419821484. ROIC follows the displayed moat series; financial companies use return on tangible equity.

### Where the cash goes

Paid dividends in 10 of 10 years; bought back USD 82.2 million of shares.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-27); Dividend observations: [[2016,48096000],[2017,60373000],[2018,79867000],[2019,85627000],[2020,87677000],[2021,92142000],[2022,128424000],[2023,145904000],[2024,150003000],[2025,158920000]]. Zero only counted when supported by a complete cash-flow statement.

- Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1331520/000133152026000051/homb-20251231.htm (filed 2026-02-27); FY2025: cash repurchases 82220000 USD.

### What the price says

The price assumes profits grow 4.3% a year forever.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-27); Price 28.87; FX 1; original perpetual distributable cash 1.631210382367759; discount 0.1; growth 0.04349808166374233. Same book-value model and 4× ceiling; no ten-year operating fade applies. Closing-price date 2026-10-15.

## Monthly share-price history (USD per share)

- 2016-10: $21.51 per share

- 2016-11: $25.87 per share

- 2016-12: $27.77 per share

- 2017-01: $26.94 per share

- 2017-02: $28.14 per share

- 2017-03: $27.07 per share

- 2017-04: $25.45 per share

- 2017-05: $23.41 per share

- 2017-06: $24.90 per share

- 2017-07: $24.80 per share

- 2017-08: $23.31 per share

- 2017-09: $25.22 per share

- 2017-10: $22.48 per share

- 2017-11: $23.80 per share

- 2017-12: $23.25 per share

- 2018-01: $24.01 per share

- 2018-02: $22.99 per share

- 2018-03: $22.81 per share

- 2018-04: $23.24 per share

- 2018-05: $23.02 per share

- 2018-06: $22.56 per share

- 2018-07: $23.19 per share

- 2018-08: $23.41 per share

- 2018-09: $21.90 per share

- 2018-10: $19.04 per share

- 2018-11: $19.61 per share

- 2018-12: $16.34 per share

- 2019-01: $18.31 per share

- 2019-02: $19.48 per share

- 2019-03: $17.57 per share

- 2019-04: $19.19 per share

- 2019-05: $17.52 per share

- 2019-06: $19.26 per share

- 2019-07: $19.67 per share

- 2019-08: $17.72 per share

- 2019-09: $18.80 per share

- 2019-10: $18.48 per share

- 2019-11: $18.82 per share

- 2019-12: $19.66 per share

- 2020-01: $19.12 per share

- 2020-02: $16.76 per share

- 2020-03: $11.99 per share

- 2020-04: $15.33 per share

- 2020-05: $14.47 per share

- 2020-06: $15.38 per share

- 2020-07: $16.33 per share

- 2020-08: $16.21 per share

- 2020-09: $15.16 per share

- 2020-10: $16.60 per share

- 2020-11: $18.51 per share

- 2020-12: $19.48 per share

- 2021-01: $21.20 per share

- 2021-02: $24.44 per share

- 2021-03: $27.05 per share

- 2021-04: $27.83 per share

- 2021-05: $27.36 per share

- 2021-06: $24.68 per share

- 2021-07: $21.18 per share

- 2021-08: $22.15 per share

- 2021-09: $23.53 per share

- 2021-10: $23.76 per share

- 2021-11: $23.93 per share

- 2021-12: $24.35 per share

- 2022-01: $23.56 per share

- 2022-02: $23.41 per share

- 2022-03: $22.60 per share

- 2022-04: $21.62 per share

- 2022-05: $22.59 per share

- 2022-06: $20.77 per share

- 2022-07: $23.60 per share

- 2022-08: $23.53 per share

- 2022-09: $22.51 per share

- 2022-10: $25.49 per share

- 2022-11: $25.45 per share

- 2022-12: $22.79 per share

- 2023-01: $23.87 per share

- 2023-02: $24.10 per share

- 2023-03: $21.71 per share

- 2023-04: $21.77 per share

- 2023-05: $21.47 per share

- 2023-06: $22.80 per share

- 2023-07: $24.31 per share

- 2023-08: $22.18 per share

- 2023-09: $20.94 per share

- 2023-10: $20.45 per share

- 2023-11: $22.18 per share

- 2023-12: $25.33 per share

- 2024-01: $23.44 per share

- 2024-02: $23.46 per share

- 2024-03: $24.57 per share

- 2024-04: $23.68 per share

- 2024-05: $23.52 per share

- 2024-06: $23.96 per share

- 2024-07: $28.33 per share

- 2024-08: $27.84 per share

- 2024-09: $27.09 per share

- 2024-10: $27.29 per share

- 2024-11: $31.76 per share

- 2024-12: $28.30 per share

- 2025-01: $30.19 per share

- 2025-02: $29.95 per share

- 2025-03: $28.27 per share

- 2025-04: $27.75 per share

- 2025-05: $28.29 per share

- 2025-06: $28.46 per share

- 2025-07: $28.16 per share

- 2025-08: $29.76 per share

- 2025-09: $28.30 per share

- 2025-10: $26.71 per share

- 2025-11: $28.06 per share

- 2025-12: $27.78 per share

- 2026-01: $28.90 per share

- 2026-02: $27.46 per share

- 2026-03: $26.93 per share

- 2026-04: $26.87 per share

- 2026-05: $26.76 per share

- 2026-06: $28.55 per share

- 2026-07: $31.07 per share

- 2026-08: $29.46 per share

- 2026-09: $28.18 per share

- 2026-10: $28.87 per share

## Annual estimated value (USD per share)

- FY2016: low $9.50 per share, central $11.88 per share, high $15.84 per share

- FY2017: low $11.63 per share, central $14.53 per share, high $19.38 per share

- FY2018: low $12.84 per share, central $16.05 per share, high $21.40 per share

- FY2019: low $18.06 per share, central $22.58 per share, high $30.11 per share

- FY2020: low $19.36 per share, central $24.20 per share, high $32.27 per share

- FY2021: low $23.77 per share, central $29.71 per share, high $39.62 per share

- FY2022: low $23.53 per share, central $29.41 per share, high $39.21 per share

- FY2023: low $25.63 per share, central $32.03 per share, high $42.71 per share

- FY2024: low $27.78 per share, central $34.72 per share, high $46.29 per share

- FY2025: low $30.96 per share, central $38.70 per share, high $51.60 per share

Historical values use today's bond yield for every fiscal year

Historical values use today's FX rate into trading currency for every fiscal year

Historical values use current restated fundamentals and current commodity classification; they are not point-in-time estimates

## Sources

[Original 10-K filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1331520/000133152026000051/homb-20251231.htm); period 2025-12-31, filed 2026-02-27.

Estimates depend on assumptions and are not guarantees or investment advice. Underlying data remains subject to its source licenses; public reading does not grant bulk redistribution rights.
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Home BancShares

HOMB · US

Not a wonderful business

1 quality test fails. A lower price would not fix the business.

Share price
$28.87
Buy up to
$40.78
Expected / yr
11.7% at today's price (10.0% at central value)

The business

How it makes money
Why customers stay
Where the cash goes
What the price says

1. Is this a good business?

Evidence only; not required for Buy

Profits were positive in 10 years (at least 9 needed).

10y median
$303M
Worst year
$135M
Latest · 2025
$475M

Earned a median 16.7% on tangible equity (minimum 12%), and the second-worst year 13.4% (minimum 5%).

10y median
16.7%
Worst year
11.0%
Latest · 2025
16.6%

Book value plus dividends grew 15.7% a year (minimum 7%).

10y median
16.1%
Worst year
1.3%
Latest · 2025
21.4%

Ordinary share growth was 3.7% over the full period and 3.6% over five years (either must be at most 2% a year).

11y median
122
Worst year
148
Latest · 2025
144

0 accounting warnings were found (none allowed).

Filing signals · estimated likelihood
Control weakness2%Auditor change2%Going concern3%Related parties13%
Material weakness in internal control: 2% estimated likelihood. ; Auditor change within the past three years disclosed: 2% estimated likelihood. ; Going-concern uncertainty: 3% estimated likelihood. ; Material related-party transactions: 13% estimated likelihood.
accounting warnings
0
Passing bar
≤ 0

Profit record · pass 0 loss years in 10 (at most 2), three-year average earnings per share 2.12 USD.

2. Is the price low enough?

Price & return math
Value range$32.62 – $54.37
Buy at or belowCentral value $40.78
Discount to value1 − 28.87 / 40.78 = 29.2%
Return / yearAbout 11.7% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%)
Cash-flow inputsBook USD 15.28/share; ROE 16.7%; first payout USD 1.63/share, growing 6.0% perpetually (4× book payout cap applied).
Required return10.0% / year, earned by construction at the central value
Net income$475M
$475M$020162025
FY2016 · Net income: $177M; FY2017 · Net income: $135M; FY2018 · Net income: $300M; FY2019 · Net income: $290M; FY2020 · Net income: $214M; FY2021 · Net income: $319M; FY2022 · Net income: $305M; FY2023 · Net income: $393M; FY2024 · Net income: $402M; FY2025 · Net income: $475M
Net income
Book / share$14.50
$14.50$020162025
FY2016 · Book / share: $6.62; FY2017 · Book / share: $8.10; FY2018 · Book / share: $7.74; FY2019 · Book / share: $9.04; FY2020 · Book / share: $9.69; FY2021 · Book / share: $10.72; FY2022 · Book / share: $10.61; FY2023 · Book / share: $11.56; FY2024 · Book / share: $12.61; FY2025 · Book / share: $14.50
Book / share
Dividend / share$0.80
$1.00$020162025
FY2016 · Dividend / share: $0.34; FY2017 · Dividend / share: $0.40; FY2018 · Dividend / share: $0.46; FY2019 · Dividend / share: $0.51; FY2020 · Dividend / share: $0.53; FY2021 · Dividend / share: $0.56; FY2022 · Dividend / share: $0.66; FY2023 · Dividend / share: $0.72; FY2024 · Dividend / share: $0.75; FY2025 · Dividend / share: $0.80
Dividend / share
Return on tangible equity16.6%
22.3%0.0%20162025
FY2016 · Return on tangible equity: 19.0%; FY2017 · Return on tangible equity: 11.0%; FY2018 · Return on tangible equity: 22.3%; FY2019 · Return on tangible equity: 19.1%; FY2020 · Return on tangible equity: 13.4%; FY2021 · Return on tangible equity: 18.0%; FY2022 · Return on tangible equity: 14.7%; FY2023 · Return on tangible equity: 16.8%; FY2024 · Return on tangible equity: 15.9%; FY2025 · Return on tangible equity: 16.6%
Return on tangible equity
Diluted shares198M
203M020162025
FY2016 · Diluted shares: 141M; FY2017 · Diluted shares: 152M; FY2018 · Diluted shares: 174M; FY2019 · Diluted shares: 168M; FY2020 · Diluted shares: 165M; FY2021 · Diluted shares: 165M; FY2022 · Diluted shares: 195M; FY2023 · Diluted shares: 203M; FY2024 · Diluted shares: 200M; FY2025 · Diluted shares: 198M
Diluted shares
Prices 15 Oct 2026 · FY2025Original filing ↗ ·