Commerce Bancshares Inc
Commerce Bancshares Inc (CBSH) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Banks - Regional, part of the Financial Services sector. It is headquartered in Kansas City, United States and has 4,976 employees. The company is worth $8.11B and trades at 13.6x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 13.2x. Revenue was $1.76B in fiscal 2025, up 6.5% from the year before. Net income was $566.25M. The share price is 7.2% below its 52-week high of $60.92. It pays a dividend yielding 1.95%, and has raised its annual dividend for 8 years in a row in our records. 6 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $377.96M. In that quarter, 3 of them opened or added to the position and 3 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▼ -3.0% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,051.68▲ +5.2%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 18 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $52.34 | $59.34 | $48.44 | $58.80 | $59.38 | $54.05 | $53.23 | $44.17 | $41.67 | $43.14 | $31.74 | $30.91 | $30.40 | $22.60 | $23.40 | $24.39 | $23.77 | $25.70 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 11.0% a year plus a 1.9% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 13.2 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 16.7 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 11.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Dividend growing 5.5% a year against a 7.0% required return, from the stock’s beta.
Companies of similar size in Financial Services, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FCFSFirstCash Holdings, Inc. | $184.78 | 24.7x | 3.6x | 0.91% | 17.40% | $8.01B |
| CBCCentral Bancompany, Inc. | $33.42 | 18.1x | 2.1x | 1.44% | 12.21% | $8B |
| HUTHut 8 Corp. | $63.97 | — | 5.5x | 0.00% | -43.37% | $7.88B |
| THGHanover Insurance Group Inc | $239.59 |
| P/E | 16.7x | 13.0x | 16.1x | 14.7x | 17.6x | 16.7x | 22.6x | 18.1x | 14.9x | 19.3x | 22.1x | 17.5x | 16.6x | 15.8x | 11.5x | 12.9x | 15.7x | 19.7x | 17.8x |
| P/S | 4.5x | 4.4x | 5.0x | 4.4x | 5.4x | 5.7x | 5.5x | 5.4x | 4.5x | 4.7x | 5.0x | 3.6x | 3.8x | 4.0x | 2.9x | 3.1x | 3.1x | — | — |
| P/B | 2.1x | 2.0x | 2.5x | 2.4x | 3.3x | 2.3x | 2.2x | 2.3x | 2.0x | 2.1x | 2.2x | 1.7x | 1.7x | 1.9x | 1.4x | 1.5x | 1.6x | — | — |
| EPS | $4.04 | $3.69 | $3.30 | $3.33 | $3.55 | $2.39 | $2.95 | $2.96 | $2.16 | $1.95 | $1.82 | $1.86 | $1.93 | $1.96 | $1.82 | $1.55 | $1.21 | $1.44 |
| Dividend yield | 1.92% | 2.00% | 1.65% | 1.93% | 1.56% | 1.48% | 1.59% | 1.53% | 1.61% | 1.61% | 1.56% | 2.01% | 1.97% | 1.91% | 6.57% | 2.38% | 2.34% | 2.36% | 2.17% |
| Payout | 30.92% | 25.93% | 26.54% | 28.27% | 27.47% | 24.71% | 35.78% | 27.64% | 23.97% | 31.16% | 34.44% | 35.17% | 32.79% | 30.09% | 75.71% | 30.67% | 36.80% | 46.59% | 38.56% |
| Profit margin | 26.21% | 32.10% | 31.79% | 30.36% | 32.81% | 38.03% | 26.51% | 31.30% | 32.72% | 26.73% | 24.44% | 24.36% | 24.77% | 25.15% | 25.91% | 24.67% | 21.09% | 16.39% | 19.48% |
| ROE | 11.89% | 14.94% | 15.90% | 16.20% | 19.81% | 15.44% | 10.42% | 13.44% | 14.79% | 11.76% | 11.03% | 11.17% | 11.23% | 11.80% | 12.43% | 11.83% | 10.96% | 8.97% | 11.94% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+52.5% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| 11.1x |
| 2.3x |
| 1.59% |
| 21.89% |
| $8.34B |
| LNCLincoln National Corp | $41.11 | 3.4x | 0.8x | 4.38% | 22.59% | $7.87B |
| WALWestern Alliance Bancorporation | $76.67 | 8.5x | 1.1x | 2.19% | 13.02% | $8.36B |