Equity Bancshares Inc
Equity Bancshares Inc (EQBK) is listed on NYSE and classified in Banks - Regional, part of the Financial Services sector. It is headquartered in Wichita, United States and has 909 employees. The company is worth $1B and trades at 10.7x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 13.2x. Revenue was $210.05M in fiscal 2025, down 6.6% from the year before. Net income was $22.73M. The share price is 6.9% below its 52-week high of $52.27. It pays a dividend yielding 1.81%. 4 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Ken Griffin (Citadel Advisors), at $5.05M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position. Over the last 30 days, company insiders bought $18.54K of its stock on the open market and sold none.
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.
▲ +46.1% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,528.16▲ +52.8%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $44.65 | $42.42 | $33.90 | $32.67 | $33.93 | $21.59 | $30.87 | $35.25 | $35.41 | $33.64 | $23.39 | |
| P/E | 17.3x | 36.3x | 10.6x | 67.8x | 9.3x | 9.9x | — | 19.2x | 15.5x | 21.9x | 31.4x | 15.2x |
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 0.0% a year plus a 1.8% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 13.2 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 17.3 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 5.0% 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 0.0% a year against a 8.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EGBNEagle Bancorp Inc | $32.97 | — | 0.9x | 0.12% | -4.14% | $1.01B |
| MCBSMetroCity Bankshares, Inc. | $35.13 | 12.2x | 1.8x | 3.07% | 15.91% | $1.01B |
| BFSTBusiness First Bancshares, Inc. | $31.31 | 11.1x | 1.1x | 1.92% | 10.01% | $1.02B |
| CACCamden National Corp |
| P/S | 3.2x | 3.9x | 3.0x | 3.8x | 2.7x | 3.0x | 2.1x | 3.2x | 3.8x | 5.1x | 4.7x | 2.7x |
| P/B | 1.1x | 1.1x | 1.1x | 1.2x | 1.3x | 1.0x | 0.8x | 1.0x | 1.2x | 1.4x | 1.1x | 0.9x |
| EPS | $1.23 | $4.00 | $0.50 | $3.51 | $3.43 | -$4.97 | $1.61 | $2.28 | $1.62 | $1.07 | $1.54 |
| Dividend yield | 1.27% | 1.48% | 1.27% | 1.30% | 1.10% | 0.47% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Payout | 13.50% | 53.66% | 13.50% | 88.00% | 10.26% | 4.66% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Profit margin | 18.37% | 10.82% | 27.83% | 5.59% | 29.02% | 29.92% | -47.25% | 16.96% | 24.79% | 20.36% | 14.86% | 18.37% |
| ROE | 5.52% | 3.10% | 10.56% | 1.73% | 14.07% | 10.48% | -18.39% | 5.35% | 7.86% | 5.52% | 3.63% | 6.16% |
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.
-51.6% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| $57.86 |
| 10.8x |
| 1.3x |
| 2.90% |
| 12.87% |
| $977.66M |
| HBNCHorizon Bancorp Inc | $19.99 | — | 1.4x | 3.20% | -18.98% | $1.03B |
| CFFNCapitol Federal Financial, Inc. | $8.33 | 12.8x | 1.0x | 4.08% | 8.01% | $1.03B |