Company Analysis

Isabella Bank Corporation (ISBA)

Nasdaq: ISBA · State Commercial Banks · Mt Pleasant, MI · filing with the SEC since 1995
Grade4.3
◀ Past 4.8● Present 3.5▶ Future 4.6

The grade of Isabella Bank Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.3/10
◀ Past4.840% of the headline
● Present3.535% of the headline
▶ Future4.625% 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?

4.8/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
3.5/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

2 warning events since 2017; the latest 2025-01-31.

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

From the record

Isabella Bank Corporation's filings since 2017 show 2 warning events: an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, 2 times, the latest 2025-01-31) (its current reports).

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

Track record

as filed
2.9/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+6.7% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 22% of this tense · 29th percentile among 152 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Isabella Bank Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $54 million in fiscal 2016 to $96 million in fiscal 2025, up 6.7% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 11% 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 span6.7%bottom 9% 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 peak10.7%bottom 23% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
7.7/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 1.2% a year. 50% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 21 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 77th percentile among 157 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Isabella Bank Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 1.2% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 50% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 21 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-20, buying about $127 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 19% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 27% 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?

3.5/1035% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
5.2/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 8%: 8¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 90%: owes 90¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 52nd percentile among 161 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Isabella Bank Corporation earned about 8 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 90 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.3% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 42% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 31% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 18% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
2.7/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 27% of 155 in its family; net margin 19.7%.

weight 33% of this tense · 27th percentile among 155 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Isabella Bank Corporation's standing among 155 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $96 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 11% by size; a net margin of 19.7% ranks in the bottom 43%; revenue growth of 13.4% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 26% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$96.0Mbottom 11% of its family
  • net margin19.7%bottom 43% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth13.4%bottom 26% of its family

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

Leadership

as filed
1.1/10

What are the people in charge doing?

bottom 11% of 150 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2024.

weight 22% of this tense · 11th percentile among 150 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Isabella Bank Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Schwind, Jerome E (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2024-02-05, 2.8 years (bottom 17% of its family); the 15 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5 years (bottom 16%); 16 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 15 people in charge now (bottom 1%; 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 charge16 in three years among 15 peoplebottom 1% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed5.0 yearsbottom 16% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record2.8 yearsbottom 17% 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?

4.6/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
2.8/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 28% of 142 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 28th percentile among 142 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Isabella Bank Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $26 million against debt of $143 million leaves -5.3% of its assets as net cash, bottom 4% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 24.3% of revenue (top 47%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-5.3%bottom 4% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue24.3%top 47% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
6.0/10

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

Isabella Bank Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 13.4% a year over the last three filed years against 6.7% over all 10, speeding up (top 25% of its family); the newest year grew 6.7% (top 38%); capital spending grew 2.8% a year (bottom 45%) (its annual reports). Isabella Bank Corporation 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+6.7 points a yeartop 25% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth6.7%top 38% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending2.8%bottom 45% 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
4.9/10

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

bottom 49% of 150 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 49th percentile among 150 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Isabella Bank Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $96 million in fiscal 2025 came in 8.7% below the $105 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 27% of its family); net income of $19 million against a prior three-year average of $18 million (bottom 34%); a net margin of 19.7% against 24% before (bottom 42%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-8.7%top 27% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+5%bottom 34% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-4.3 pointsbottom 42% 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

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