Farmers & Merchants Bancshares
Through the investors’ lenses
3 of 3 cleared5 of 5 criteria
Each of these investors has said in public what they look at before buying. Click a name to see how this company measures up — a tick where it passes one of their tests, a cross where it does not.
Warren Buffett 3/3
| Measure | FMFG | Checked against | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owner earnings | $5.97m | positive | ✓ |
| Return on equity | 8.9% | US median 2.8% | ✓ |
| Debt to equity | — | US median 0.57x | — |
| Operating margin | 17.4% | US median 3.1% | ✓ |
Passes 3 of 3. These are the measures Warren Buffett published, applied to Farmers & Merchants Bancshares’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →
Benjamin Graham 1/1
| Measure | FMFG | Checked against | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current ratio | — | 2.00x published | — |
| Long-term debt to working capital | — | 1.00x published | — |
| Positive earnings, ten years running | 10 yrs | 10 published | ✓ |
Passes 1 of 1. These are the measures Benjamin Graham published, applied to Farmers & Merchants Bancshares’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →
Peter Lynch 1/1
| Measure | FMFG | Checked against | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debt to equity | — | US median 0.57x | — |
| Net margin | 13.6% | US median 2.0% | ✓ |
Passes 1 of 1. These are the measures Peter Lynch published, applied to Farmers & Merchants Bancshares’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →
| Basis | Payout | Why |
|---|---|---|
| GAAP earnings | 23.0% | whyThe figure most screeners publish. |
Only one basis is shown, and that is the point. Operating and free cash flow swing with loan, deposit and reserve movements, so for a lender or insurer neither says anything about whether the dividend is affordable. Investment income is omitted for a second reason: insurers file it under the same tag a BDC uses, but it means investment income on float rather than the money that funds the distribution. Screeners that publish these for a bank are printing arithmetic, not information — and a wide gap between them is noise, not a finding.
Coverage rating 58 / 100 — Tight. ? Peer standing 29/50Direction 25/30Stability 4/20
GAAP earnings payout, last 6 years
| Fiscal year | Payout |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 23.0% |
| 2024-12-31 | 48.9% |
| 2023-12-31 | 31.7% |
| 2022-12-31 | 23.7% |
| 2021-12-31 | 21.1% |
| 2020-12-31 | 57.8% |
Among the 142 banks & insurers companies here, 58% pay out a larger share on this basis.
The arithmetic
- GAAP earnings — dividends declared per share $0.417 ÷ diluted EPS $1.81
Where the figures came from
- 10-K filed 2026-03-26 · accession 0001437749-26-009952
Every one is public at sec.gov and free to check. That is the point — you should not have to take our word for any of it.
Caveats on this company
- DPS derived from dividends paid ($0.42); no per-share tag filed
Computed by an open pipeline reading SEC XBRL directly. If any number here looks wrong to you, tell us — that is more useful to us than agreement.
What the GAAP earnings payout ratio measures, and where every company here sits on it.
Also on: rated tight · when it files.
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