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ISTR
Investar Holding Corp
NASDAQ· Financial Services· Banks - Regional· CUSIP 46134L105
$28.82+0.45%Price as of Oct 17, 12:03 UTC · updated once a day, after the close
At a glance
Investar Holding Corp (ISTR) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Banks - Regional, part of the Financial Services sector. It is headquartered in Baton Rouge, United States and has 421 employees. The company is worth $397.05M and trades at 11.9x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 13.2x. Revenue was $93.63M in fiscal 2025, up 7.1% from the year before. Net income was $22.9M. The share price is 9.3% below its 52-week high of $31.77. It pays a dividend yielding 1.67%, and has raised its annual dividend for 10 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 Ken Griffin (Citadel Advisors), at $8.01M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position. 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.
Key metrics
- Market cap
- $397.05M
- P/E
- 11.9x
- Forward P/E
- 8.7x
- P/B
- 1.0x
- Dividend yield
- 1.67%
- Payout
- 19.75%
- EPS
- $2.43
- ROE
- 9.94%
- Profit margin
- 27.65%
- Revenue growth
- +66.20%
- Beta
- 0.47
- 52-week high
- $31.77
- 52-week low
- $21.80
History
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Investors holding this
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
Price over time
▲ +60.8% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,717.34▲ +71.7%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
Indicators, year by year
The last 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $26.72 | $21.96 | $14.91 | $21.53 | $18.41 | $16.54 | $24.00 | $24.80 | $24.10 | $18.65 | $17.60 | $13.85 | |
| P/E | 14.7x | 12.5x | 10.8x | 8.8x | 6.2x | 24.2x | 13.0x | 14.5x | 17.8x | 25.1x |
Fair price, seven ways
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Earnings
$39.33
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings
$30.52
Earnings growing 10.9% a year plus a 1.7% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Earnings
$31.97
Median P/E of 13.2 among peers in the sector.
Earnings
$35.66
Median P/E of 14.7 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow
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This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Operating
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This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Dividends
$30.60
Others in the same sector
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TMSTeamshares Inc | $5.37 | — | 3.6x | 0.00% | — | $397.34M |
| FCBMFirst Carolina Financial Services, Inc. | $12.72 | 23.6x | 0.9x | 0.00% | — | $395.2M |
| MEVOM Evo Global Acquisition Corp II | $10.01 | — | — | 0.00% | — | $400.4M |
| TACOBerto Acquisition Corp. | $10.48 |
About the company
- 421
- Baton Rouge, United States