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NASDAQ NMS - GLOBAL MARKET · Banking · CIK 0000022356
$55.07
-0.92% · live
Updated
$7.37B market value
From COMMERCE BANCSHARES INC /MO/'s FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2026 · read the filing
COMMERCE BANCSHARES /MO/ takes deposits and lends money.
The financial picture is led by profitability, with debt worth watching.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Recent open-market selling by 4 insiders, not under a pre-arranged plan.
$428.5K sold in the last 120 days · Read the filing
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
Strong finances across the board.
From COMMERCE BANCSHARES INC /MO/'s FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Profit
$526.3M → $566.3M
Free cash flow
$531.7M → $592.4M
Cash
$3.38B → $3.55B
Shares in issue
129.9M → 133.9M
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 24, 2026
Improved: +7.6%
$526.3M to $566.3MNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
How the latest move compares (quote live), and what was published around it
CBSH fell 0.92% on the latest quote. The average Financials company tracked here moved +1.11%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 2.0 points below its sector and in line with the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Opinions from 16 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 16 analysts publishing on this company, 2 say strong buy, 5 say buy and 9 say hold. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It earned $566.3M last year.
Not enough history has been reported to judge growth.
For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.13 in assets. Banks and insurers always carry high debt — that is how lending works — so this is normal for the industry and not comparable with other sectors.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 27 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 23% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
GoodNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $566.3M and generated $645.1M of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 24, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 25, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 25, 2025Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 25, 2025Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 23, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interest expense | — | — | $383.2M | $56.8M | $12.9M | — |
| Income before tax | $731.8M | $679.5M | $619.7M | $632.4M | $686.3M | +7.7% |
| Net income | $566.3M | $526.3M | $477.1M | $488.4M | $530.8M | +7.6% |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $4.23 | $4.05 | $3.82 | $4.03 | $4.53 | +4.4% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Was granted or awarded shares — 118 shares at $56.64 ($6.7K)
Holds 24,374 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 128 shares at $56.64 ($7.3K)
Holds 26,565 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Published results
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Cash -7.6% — against Q2 FY2025
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 16 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 3 places. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from CBSH's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 24, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
2 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Growth and Accounting had too few reported figures and are left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 5 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 8.0 | 4/5 | 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 8.0 | 4/5 | 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 8.0 | 3/5 | 10-K, filed Feb 22, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 8.0 | 3/5 | 10-K, filed Feb 22, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 8.0 | 4/5 | 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 8.0 | 4/5 | 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
4 of 5 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. 4 could not be evaluated and are excluded from the total rather than counted as failures.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Improved: +11.4%
$531.7M to $592.4MNotable
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Improved: +5.1%
$3.38B to $3.55BNotable
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Deteriorated: +3.1%
129.9M to 133.9MNotable
Why it matters: New shares divide the same company into more pieces, so each existing holding owns slightly less of it. Often pay for staff or an acquisition rather than anything wrong.
Changed: +14.3%
$46.1M to $52.7MNotable
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Aug 5, 2026 — read it.
Deteriorated: -7.6%
$3.15B to $2.91BNotable
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Aug 5, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Deteriorated: -24.3%
$3.84B to $2.91BSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +12.8%
$141.6M to $159.8MNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
2 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
These coincide with the move in time. None is presented as its cause: a price can move on news that names no company, on the wider market, or on trading that no document records.
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Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 4.9% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 12.4x — investors pay $12.4 for each $1 of trailing profit.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Exercised stock options — 220 shares at $37.91 ($8.3K)
Holds 1,850 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 220 shares at $39.14 ($8.6K)
Holds 2,070 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 23 shares at $58.51 ($1.3K)
Holds 2,047 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 21 shares at $58.52 ($1.2K)
Holds 2,026 shares after this filing.
Shares were sold back to the company — 143 shares at $58.51 ($8.4K)
Holds 1,883 shares after this filing.
Shares were sold back to the company — 148 shares at $58.52 ($8.7K)
Holds 1,735 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 1,393 shares at $37.91 ($52.8K)
Holds 13,139 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 1,396 shares at $39.14 ($54.6K)
Holds 14,535 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 273 shares at $58.10 ($15.9K)
Holds 14,262 shares after this filing.
Shares were sold back to the company — 1,850 shares at $58.10 ($107.5K)
Holds 12,412 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 666 shares at $58.15 ($38.7K)
Holds 11,746 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 1,194 shares at $37.91 ($45.3K)
Holds 26,156 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 1,353 shares at $39.14 ($53.0K)
Holds 27,509 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 275 shares at $60.31 ($16.6K)
Holds 27,234 shares after this filing.
Shares were sold back to the company — 1,630 shares at $60.31 ($98.3K)
Holds 25,604 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 642 shares at $60.35 ($38.7K)
Holds 24,962 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 3,507 shares at $39.90 ($139.9K)
Holds 34,042 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 357 shares at $60.32 ($21.5K)
Holds 33,685 shares after this filing.
Shares were sold back to the company — 2,320 shares at $60.32 ($139.9K)
Holds 31,365 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 830 shares at $60.28 ($50.0K)
Holds 30,535 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 5,000 shares at $60.20 ($301.0K)
Holds 55,962 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 666 shares ($38.7K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via SAR.
Filed notice to sell 642 shares ($38.7K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via SAR.
Filed notice to sell 830 shares ($50.0K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via SAR.
Filed notice to sell 5,000 shares ($301.0K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Vesting.
Filed notice to sell 5,830 shares ($353.2K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via SAR.
Filed notice to sell 1,041 shares ($62.1K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Vesting.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Published results
Published results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Free cash flow +438.4% · Capital spending -49.4% · Cash +17.4% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Held a shareholder vote · Reported another event
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Profit +7.6% · Free cash flow +11.4% · Cash +5.1% — against FY2024
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingCompleted an acquisition or disposal · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Cash -6.2% — against Q3 FY2025
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Reported another event
Read the filingSource: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-02-24. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
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