# Simmons First National (SFNC.US)

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

Analysis as of: 2026-10-16T07:31:51.750Z. Financial observations: FY2015–FY2025.

Listing currency: USD. Reporting currency: USD.

## Verdict

Not a wonderful business

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

Share price: $22.26 per share; close as of 2026-10-15.

Estimated value: low $17.10 per share, central $18.81 per share, high $20.90 per share. Buy at or below the central value $18.81 per share. Valuation as of 2026-10-16T07:31:51.750Z; scenarios are not confidence intervals.

Expected annual return: 8.5% at the stated quote. About 8.5% 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: 9

- Required profitable years: 9

- Return on common equity variation (informational): 1.12×

Chart: Net income; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: $97M

- FY2017: $93M

- FY2018: $216M

- FY2019: $238M

- FY2020: $255M

- FY2021: $271M

- FY2022: $256M

- FY2023: $175M

- FY2024: $153M

- FY2025: -$398M

### moat: pass

- Tangible common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity

- Bank / P&C ROTE, median of available years: 13.0%

- Required median return: 12.0%

- Return uses tangible common equity: Yes

- Bank ROTE, second-lowest year: 7.2%

- Cost / income, median: 62.5%

- Years with reported combined ratio: 0

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

- FY2016: 12.9%

- FY2017: 8.2%

- FY2018: 16.5%

- FY2019: 13.2%

- FY2020: 14.2%

- FY2021: 13.6%

- FY2022: 14.1%

- FY2023: 8.8%

- FY2024: 7.2%

- FY2025: -19.7%

### economics: fail

- Tangible common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity

- book value per share plus dividends compounded below 7% annually

- Book value per share + reinvested dividends, annualized return: 6.9%

- Book return interval: 10 years

- Starting book value per share: $11.79

- Ending book value per share: $14.95

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

- FY2016: 6.6%

- FY2017: 38.5%

- FY2018: -9.6%

- FY2019: 34.1%

- FY2020: -7.4%

- FY2021: 16.0%

- FY2022: -15.1%

- FY2023: 12.9%

- FY2024: 11.8%

- FY2025: -5.6%

### 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: 9.1%

- Diluted shares, 5-year annual growth: 4.1%

- Share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: 9.1%

- Five-year share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: 4.1%

- Flagged crisis recapitalisations: 0

- Book created / earnings retained after dividends and buybacks: 1.14×

- Book value created per share: $3.16

- Earnings retained per share after dividends and buybacks: $2.77

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

- FY2015: 100

- FY2016: 110

- FY2017: 124

- FY2018: 165

- FY2019: 175

- FY2020: 195

- FY2021: 195

- FY2022: 221

- FY2023: 225

- FY2024: 224

- FY2025: 239

### accounting: pass

- Financial accounting warning count: 0

- Deposits, annualized growth: 12.7%

- Known restatement years: 0

- Years loan growth exceeded twice deposit growth: 0

- Years credit losses exceeded peer median: 4

## Holders

## Price story

Down 26% since Oct 2021 · "SFNC Q1 Deep Dive: Revenue Growth Offset by Credit Actions and Margin Pressures" (finance.yahoo.com, Jul 2025) · net income -360.4%

Story as of 2026-10-16T09:59:34.250Z; price observation 2026-10-15.

The price assumes profits grow 1.5% a year forever

- 2025-06-23: SFNC Q1 Deep Dive: Revenue Growth Outpaces Expectations, Credit Costs Weigh on Profitability ([finance.yahoo.com](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sfnc-q1-deep-dive-revenue-180342558.html))

- 2025-07-18: Simmons First signals continued net interest margin expansion through loan repricing and deposit remixing ([seekingalpha.com](https://seekingalpha.com/news/4468919-simmons-first-signals-continued-net-interest-margin-expansion-through-loan-repricing-and?utm_source=feed_news_all&utm_medium=referral&feed_item_type=news))

- 2026-04-17: Simmons Signals High-End 9%--11% 2026 NII Growth Outlook ([finance.yahoo.com](https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/simmons-signals-high-end-9-183009159.html))

### Net income · FY2025

net income -360.4%; source https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/90498/000162828026011618/sfnc-20251231.htm; observed 2026-02-25.

- FY2016: $97M 

- FY2017: $93M 

- FY2018: $216M 

- FY2019: $238M 

- FY2020: $255M 

- FY2021: $271M 

- FY2022: $256M 

- FY2023: $175M 

- FY2024: $153M 

- FY2025: -$398M 

## Owner memo

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

### How it makes money

Operates in regional banking; annual sales are USD 103.2 million.

- Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/90498/000162828026011618/sfnc-20251231.htm#000162828026011618 (filed 2026-02-25); FY2025: revenue 103233000.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); SFNC.US: Simmons First National Corporation operates as the bank holding company for Simmons Bank that provides banking and other financial products and services to individuals and businesses. The company offers deposits, checking, and savings accounts; loan products, such as consumer, real estate, commercial, agricultural, equipment, warehouse lending, and SBA lending; specialized products and services, including credit cards, trust and fiduciary services, investments, and insurance; and treasury management services. It also provides ATM services; internet and mobile banking platforms; overdraft facilities; safe deposit boxes; and brokerage services. The company has operations in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. Simmons First National Corporation was founded in 1903 and is headquartered in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

### Why customers stay

It earns 13% on shareholders’ money, excluding intangible assets.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-25); 10-year return on tangible equity observations [[2016,0.1291141030378298],[2017,0.08182476083821517],[2018,0.16474023092790432],[2019,0.131738988100019],[2020,0.14241726898518783],[2021,0.13578540307793402],[2022,0.14082280827300772],[2023,0.08783398660541362],[2024,0.07233786124990585],[2025,-0.19739297265466346]]; median 0.1304265455689244. ROIC follows the displayed moat series; financial companies use return on tangible equity.

### Where the cash goes

Paid dividends in 10 of 10 years.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-25); Dividend observations: [[2016,28767000],[2017,35116000],[2018,55646000],[2019,64260000],[2020,74645000],[2021,78892000],[2022,94096000],[2023,100962000],[2024,105439000],[2025,115041000]]. Zero only counted when supported by a complete cash-flow statement.

### Are managers owners

Insiders own 1.2% of the company.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); SFNC.US SharesStats.PercentInsiders = 1.216 percentage points; cache date 2026-10-16.

### What the price says

The price assumes profits grow 1.5% a year forever.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-25); Price 22.26; FX 1; original perpetual distributable cash 1.8809771468352277; discount 0.1; growth 0.015499678938219796. 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: $24.68 per share

- 2016-11: $30.23 per share

- 2016-12: $31.08 per share

- 2017-01: $30.08 per share

- 2017-02: $28.75 per share

- 2017-03: $27.58 per share

- 2017-04: $27.33 per share

- 2017-05: $25.38 per share

- 2017-06: $26.45 per share

- 2017-07: $27.28 per share

- 2017-08: $26.10 per share

- 2017-09: $28.95 per share

- 2017-10: $28.85 per share

- 2017-11: $28.95 per share

- 2017-12: $28.55 per share

- 2018-01: $29.43 per share

- 2018-02: $28.45 per share

- 2018-03: $28.45 per share

- 2018-04: $30.20 per share

- 2018-05: $32.00 per share

- 2018-06: $29.90 per share

- 2018-07: $29.80 per share

- 2018-08: $31.60 per share

- 2018-09: $29.45 per share

- 2018-10: $26.78 per share

- 2018-11: $29.40 per share

- 2018-12: $24.13 per share

- 2019-01: $24.74 per share

- 2019-02: $26.83 per share

- 2019-03: $24.48 per share

- 2019-04: $25.39 per share

- 2019-05: $22.81 per share

- 2019-06: $23.26 per share

- 2019-07: $25.75 per share

- 2019-08: $24.00 per share

- 2019-09: $24.90 per share

- 2019-10: $23.92 per share

- 2019-11: $25.91 per share

- 2019-12: $26.79 per share

- 2020-01: $23.98 per share

- 2020-02: $21.38 per share

- 2020-03: $18.40 per share

- 2020-04: $18.70 per share

- 2020-05: $17.15 per share

- 2020-06: $17.11 per share

- 2020-07: $16.59 per share

- 2020-08: $17.07 per share

- 2020-09: $15.86 per share

- 2020-10: $16.99 per share

- 2020-11: $19.50 per share

- 2020-12: $21.59 per share

- 2021-01: $24.70 per share

- 2021-02: $29.28 per share

- 2021-03: $29.67 per share

- 2021-04: $28.50 per share

- 2021-05: $30.50 per share

- 2021-06: $29.34 per share

- 2021-07: $27.22 per share

- 2021-08: $29.05 per share

- 2021-09: $29.56 per share

- 2021-10: $29.89 per share

- 2021-11: $29.11 per share

- 2021-12: $29.58 per share

- 2022-01: $28.60 per share

- 2022-02: $28.52 per share

- 2022-03: $26.22 per share

- 2022-04: $23.87 per share

- 2022-05: $25.71 per share

- 2022-06: $21.26 per share

- 2022-07: $23.75 per share

- 2022-08: $23.59 per share

- 2022-09: $21.79 per share

- 2022-10: $23.87 per share

- 2022-11: $23.21 per share

- 2022-12: $21.58 per share

- 2023-01: $22.31 per share

- 2023-02: $22.23 per share

- 2023-03: $17.49 per share

- 2023-04: $16.71 per share

- 2023-05: $16.27 per share

- 2023-06: $17.25 per share

- 2023-07: $20.19 per share

- 2023-08: $17.82 per share

- 2023-09: $16.96 per share

- 2023-10: $14.21 per share

- 2023-11: $15.99 per share

- 2023-12: $19.84 per share

- 2024-01: $19.01 per share

- 2024-02: $19.20 per share

- 2024-03: $19.46 per share

- 2024-04: $17.09 per share

- 2024-05: $17.38 per share

- 2024-06: $17.58 per share

- 2024-07: $21.53 per share

- 2024-08: $21.42 per share

- 2024-09: $21.54 per share

- 2024-10: $23.20 per share

- 2024-11: $24.46 per share

- 2024-12: $22.18 per share

- 2025-01: $22.72 per share

- 2025-02: $21.97 per share

- 2025-03: $20.53 per share

- 2025-04: $18.66 per share

- 2025-05: $18.76 per share

- 2025-06: $18.96 per share

- 2025-07: $19.17 per share

- 2025-08: $20.78 per share

- 2025-09: $19.17 per share

- 2025-10: $17.38 per share

- 2025-11: $18.55 per share

- 2025-12: $18.85 per share

- 2026-01: $20.33 per share

- 2026-02: $19.91 per share

- 2026-03: $19.45 per share

- 2026-04: $21.26 per share

- 2026-05: $21.45 per share

- 2026-06: $22.65 per share

- 2026-07: $23.59 per share

- 2026-08: $22.58 per share

- 2026-09: $22.58 per share

- 2026-10: $22.26 per share

## Annual estimated value (USD per share)

- FY2016: low $10.70 per share, central $13.38 per share, high $17.83 per share

- FY2017: low $13.04 per share, central $16.20 per share, high $21.37 per share

- FY2018: low $11.27 per share, central $14.05 per share, high $18.65 per share

- FY2019: low $15.53 per share, central $19.42 per share, high $25.89 per share

- FY2020: low $13.81 per share, central $17.26 per share, high $23.01 per share

- FY2021: low $21.02 per share, central $26.27 per share, high $35.03 per share

- FY2022: low $20.63 per share, central $25.79 per share, high $34.38 per share

- FY2023: low $18.65 per share, central $20.52 per share, high $22.80 per share

- FY2024: low $19.86 per share, central $21.84 per share, high $24.27 per share

- FY2025: low $17.74 per share, central $19.51 per share, high $21.68 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/90498/000162828026011618/sfnc-20251231.htm); period 2025-12-31, filed 2026-02-25.

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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Simmons First National

SFNC · US

Not a wonderful business

3 quality tests fail. A lower price would not fix the business.

Share price
$22.26
Buy up to
$18.81
Expected / yr
8.5% at today's price (10.0% at central value)

The business

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

1. Is this a good business?

Evidence only; not required for Buy

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

10y median
$195M
Worst year
-$398M
Latest · 2025
-$398M

Earned a median 13% on tangible equity (minimum 12%), and the second-worst year 7.2% (minimum 5%).

10y median
13.0%
Worst year
-19.7%
Latest · 2025
-19.7%

Book value plus dividends grew 6.9% a year (minimum 7%).

10y median
9.2%
Worst year
-15.1%
Latest · 2025
-5.6%

Ordinary share growth was 9.1% over the full period and 4.1% over five years (either must be at most 2% a year).

11y median
195
Worst year
239
Latest · 2025
239

0 accounting warnings were found (none allowed).

Filing signals · estimated likelihood
Control weakness3%Auditor change2%Going concern4%Related parties9%
Material weakness in internal control: 3% estimated likelihood. ; Auditor change within the past three years disclosed: 2% estimated likelihood. ; Going-concern uncertainty: 4% estimated likelihood. ; Material related-party transactions: 9% estimated likelihood.
accounting warnings
0
Passing bar
≤ 0

Profit record · fail 1 loss year in 10 (at most 2), three-year average earnings per share -0.12 USD. Three-year average earnings per share is not positive.

2. Is the price low enough?

Price & return math
Value range$17.10 – $20.90
Buy at or belowCentral value $18.81
Discount to value1 − 22.26 / 18.81 = -18.3%
Return / yearAbout 8.5% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%)
Cash-flow inputsBook USD 14.41/share; ROE 13.1%; first payout USD 1.88/share, growing 0.0% perpetually (4× book payout cap applied).
Required return10.0% / year, earned by construction at the central value
Net income-$398M
$271M-$398M20162025
FY2016 · Net income: $97M; FY2017 · Net income: $93M; FY2018 · Net income: $216M; FY2019 · Net income: $238M; FY2020 · Net income: $255M; FY2021 · Net income: $271M; FY2022 · Net income: $256M; FY2023 · Net income: $175M; FY2024 · Net income: $153M; FY2025 · Net income: -$398M
Net income
Book / share$14.95
$18.27$020162025
FY2016 · Book / share: $12.11; FY2017 · Book / share: $16.26; FY2018 · Book / share: $14.11; FY2019 · Book / share: $18.27; FY2020 · Book / share: $16.24; FY2021 · Book / share: $18.12; FY2022 · Book / share: $14.63; FY2023 · Book / share: $15.72; FY2024 · Book / share: $16.74; FY2025 · Book / share: $14.95
Book / share
Dividend / share$0.85
$1.00$020162025
FY2016 · Dividend / share: $0.46; FY2017 · Dividend / share: $0.50; FY2018 · Dividend / share: $0.60; FY2019 · Dividend / share: $0.65; FY2020 · Dividend / share: $0.68; FY2021 · Dividend / share: $0.72; FY2022 · Dividend / share: $0.76; FY2023 · Dividend / share: $0.80; FY2024 · Dividend / share: $0.84; FY2025 · Dividend / share: $0.85
Dividend / share
Return on tangible equity-19.7%
16.5%-19.7%20162025
FY2016 · Return on tangible equity: 12.9%; FY2017 · Return on tangible equity: 8.2%; FY2018 · Return on tangible equity: 16.5%; FY2019 · Return on tangible equity: 13.2%; FY2020 · Return on tangible equity: 14.2%; FY2021 · Return on tangible equity: 13.6%; FY2022 · Return on tangible equity: 14.1%; FY2023 · Return on tangible equity: 8.8%; FY2024 · Return on tangible equity: 7.2%; FY2025 · Return on tangible equity: -19.7%
Return on tangible equity
Diluted shares135M
135M020162025
FY2016 · Diluted shares: 62M; FY2017 · Diluted shares: 70M; FY2018 · Diluted shares: 93M; FY2019 · Diluted shares: 99M; FY2020 · Diluted shares: 110M; FY2021 · Diluted shares: 110M; FY2022 · Diluted shares: 124M; FY2023 · Diluted shares: 127M; FY2024 · Diluted shares: 126M; FY2025 · Diluted shares: 135M
Diluted shares
Prices 15 Oct 2026 · FY2025Original filing ↗ ·