Equity Bancshares (EQBK)
Runs relationship banking, commercial lending, deposits, and wealth services through Equity Bank.
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Owns Equity Bank, a community-bank platform serving individuals and businesses through loans, deposits, mortgage banking, treasury management, trust and wealth services, and crop-focused insurance. The model pairs community-market deposits with metropolitan commercial lending and repeat bank acquisitions.
Runs Equity Bank as a Kansas-chartered member bank serving individuals, business owners, and corporate customers. Its product set centers on commercial real estate and commercial lending, deposits and consumer banking, mortgage banking, treasury management, trust and wealth services, and crop-focused insurance brokerage.
The footprint is concentrated in Midwestern markets, with branches and offices across Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Iowa, and Nebraska. Management uses community-market deposits to fund commercial lending in larger metro markets.
Execution depends on integrating acquired banks into one operating platform, cross-selling deposits, and managing credit quality in a loan book weighted toward commercial real estate. Earnings are shaped by interest-rate and funding conditions because loan and securities income remain central to the banking model.
Company facts
Target rangeAs of Sep 22, 2026
Latest analyst notes
| Date | Firm | Action | Prior | Current |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 2026 | Piper Sandler | Reiterate | Rating: —Target: $58 | Target: $60 |
| Sep 4, 2026 | DA Davidson | Reiterate | Rating: —Target: $51 | Target: $54 |
| Jul 16, 2026 | Stephens | Reiterate | Rating: —Target: $46 | Target: $59 |
| Jun 24, 2026 | Benchmark Co. | Target | Target: — | Target: $57 |
| Jun 24, 2026 | Benchmark | Initiate | Rating: — |
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Balance sheet, Jun 30, 2026Cash & short-term investments $1.78B · Total debt $526.6M · Total assets $7.73B · Shareholders' equity $827.3M
- Revenue
- $115.9M
- Operating income
- $33.7M
- Net income
- $26.4M
HistoryDividendAnnual yieldUpcoming
| Institutions | ≈ 65.82% | 13.82M shares | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 145 holders · as of Jun 30, 2026 · largest filers plus last quarter's tail | |||
| Insiders | 7.08% | 1.49M shares | |
| 21 holders · as of Aug 26, 2026 | |||
| Other | ≈ 27.10% | 5.69M shares | |
| remainder | |||
20.99M company shares as of Sep 23, 2026 · institutions as of Jun 30, 2026 · holders as of their latest filing
This quarter's institutional total failed a plausibility check; shown: the largest filers plus last quarter's remainder.
Top shareholders13F · 13D/G · Form 4
| Holder | Stake | Shares | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
T. Rowe Price Investment Management, Inc.Institution | 11.24% | 2.36M | as of Jun 30, 2026 |
BlackRock, Inc.Institution | 7.29% | 1.53M | as of Jun 30, 2026 |
Patriot Financial Partners GP Ii, L.P.Institution | 4.85% | 1.02M | as of Jun 30, 2026 |
FJ Capital Management LLCInstitution | 4.58% | 961,492 | as of Jun 30, 2026 |
Dimensional Fund Advisors LPInstitution | 3.67% | 770,531 | as of Jun 30, 2026 |
Insider tradesForm 4
| Date | Insider | Role | Shares | Avg price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 2026 | Donald Scott Rogerson | director | +2,000 | $50.00 |
| Aug 17, 2026 | David Pass | officer: Chief Information Officer | −147 | $51.31 |
| Jul 31, 2026 | Donald Scott Rogerson | director | +2,000 | $50.25 |
| Jul 29, 2026 | Brad S. Elliott | director, officer: Chief Executive Officer | −4,165 | $51.12 |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Brad S. Elliott | director, officer: Chief Executive Officer | −416 | $51.02 |
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Compare
| Company | Price | Change | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equity Bancshares | $48.36 | −0.42% | $998.7M | 27.7 | 9.6 | 2.6 | +42.3% |
| Commerce Bancshares | $55.73 | +0.09% | $8.12B | 13.5 | 12.7 | 3.7 | +11.9% |
| UMB Financial | $134.63 | +0.31% | $10.19B | 11.2 | 10.2 | 2.2 | +22.9% |
| BOK Financial | $130.90 | −0.11% | $7.96B | 12.3 | 12.6 | 2.3 | +4.8% |
| Simmons First National | $22.97 | +2.08% | $3.26B | — | 10.5 | 5.7 | +69,452.9% |
| Enterprise Financial Services | $59.99 | −0.67% | $2.19B | 12.0 | 10.6 | 2.2 | +30.9% |
| Bank OZK | $46.72 | −0.65% | $5.13B | 7.8 | 8.1 | 1.9 | +1.8% |
| Home BancShares | $29.09 | −0.17% | $5.87B | 12.0 | 11.4 | 4.2 | +10.7% |
| First Interstate BancSystem | $36.37 | −0.48% | $3.55B | 11.2 | 13.1 | 3.7 | +6.3% |
| Median | 12.0 | 11.0 | 3.0 | +11.3% |