Company Analysis

Bar Harbor Bankshares (BHB)

NYSE: BHB · State Commercial Banks · Bar Harbor, ME · filing with the SEC since 1995
Grade4.2
◀ Past 3.9● Present 4.7▶ Future 3.9

The grade of Bar Harbor Bankshares

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.2/10
◀ Past3.940% of the headline
● Present4.735% of the headline
▶ Future3.925% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

3.9/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
3.5/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

1 warning event since 2017; the latest 2025-03-14.

weight 45% of this tense · 35th percentile among 165 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Bar Harbor Bankshares' filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2025-03-14) (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
3.8/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+15.5% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 22% of this tense · 38th percentile among 152 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Bar Harbor Bankshares' 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $57 million in fiscal 2016 to $210 million in fiscal 2025, up 15.5% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 18% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span15.5%top 44% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 29% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 44% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak18.2%bottom 9% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
4.5/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 1.8% a year. 37% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 3 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 45th percentile among 157 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Bar Harbor Bankshares' diluted share count grew about 1.8% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 37% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 3 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $60 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 33% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 44% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

4.7/1035% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
3.5/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 7%: 7¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 89%: owes 89¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 35th percentile among 161 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Bar Harbor Bankshares earned about 7 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 89 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 4.2% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 40% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 21% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 25% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
4.1/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 41% of 155 in its family; net margin 17.6%.

weight 33% of this tense · 41st percentile among 155 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Bar Harbor Bankshares' standing among 155 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $210 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 38% by size; a net margin of 17.6% ranks in the bottom 29%; revenue growth of 18.3% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 44% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$210Mbottom 38% of its family
  • net margin17.6%bottom 29% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth18.3%top 44% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
7.8/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 22% of 150 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2016.

weight 22% of this tense · 78th percentile among 150 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Bar Harbor Bankshares' leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Simard, Curtis C (PRESIDENT/CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2016-07-27, 10.3 years (top 30% of its family); the 18 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 9.1 years (top 24%); 2 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 18 people in charge now (top 12%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge2 in three years among 18 peopletop 12% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed9.1 yearstop 24% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record10.3 yearstop 30% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

3.9/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
2.2/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 22% of 142 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 22nd percentile among 142 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Bar Harbor Bankshares' room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $81 million against debt of $135 million leaves -1.2% of its assets as net cash, bottom 8% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 20.7% of revenue (bottom 37%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-1.2%bottom 8% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue20.7%bottom 37% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
6.1/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 39% of 152 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 61st percentile among 152 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Bar Harbor Bankshares' growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 18.3% a year over the last three filed years against 15.5% over all 10, speeding up (bottom 39% of its family); the newest year grew 11% (top 25%); capital spending grew 24.1% a year (top 31%) (its annual reports). Bar Harbor Bankshares tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+2.8 points a yearbottom 39% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth11.0%top 25% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending24.1%top 31% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
3.2/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 32% of 150 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 32nd percentile among 150 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Bar Harbor Bankshares' newest year against its own record: revenue of $210 million in fiscal 2025 came in 9.1% below the $230 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 29% of its family); net income of $37 million against a prior three-year average of $44 million (bottom 13%); a net margin of 17.6% against 27.7% before (bottom 13%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-9.1%top 29% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-16%bottom 13% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-10.1 pointsbottom 13% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton BHB · research, not advice