Equity Bancshares, Inc. (EQBK)

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Equity Bancshares, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 4 warning events of 2 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, the latest 2023-05-10); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, 3 times, the latest 2019-05-13) (its current reports).

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Equity Bancshares, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $62 million in fiscal 2016 to $331 million in fiscal 2025, up 20.5% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 11% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Equity Bancshares, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 3.9% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 35% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 10 sales and 7 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-19, buying about $377 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Equity Bancshares, Inc. earned about 3 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 17.8% over the year (the filed statements).

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Equity Bancshares, Inc.'s standing among 155 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $331 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 49% by size; a net margin of 6.9% ranks in the bottom 6%; revenue growth of 20.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 30% (its annual reports).

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Equity Bancshares, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Elliott, Brad S (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2015-11-10, 11 years (top 30% of its family); the 21 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.5 years (bottom 25%); 6 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 21 people in charge now (top 42%; 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.

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Equity Bancshares, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 20.7% a year over the last three filed years against 20.5% over all 10, speeding up (bottom 26% of its family); the newest year grew 11.5% (top 24%); capital spending grew 56.2% a year (top 10%) (its annual reports). Equity Bancshares, Inc. 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.

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Equity Bancshares, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $331 million in fiscal 2025 came in 11.2% below the $373 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 35% of its family); net income of $23 million against a prior three-year average of $43 million (bottom 7%); a net margin of 6.9% against 18.3% before (bottom 11%) (its annual reports).