Company Analysis

Investar Holding Corporation (ISTR)

Nasdaq: ISTR · State Commercial Banks · Baton Rouge, LA · filing with the SEC since 2014
Grade3.2
◀ Past 3.6● Present 3.0▶ Future 2.8
1 est.

The grade of Investar Holding Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
3.2/10
◀ Past3.640% of the headline
● Present3.035% of the headline
▶ Future2.825% of the headline

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

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

3.6/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
1.7/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

5 warning events since 2017; the latest 2026-06-22.

weight 45% of this tense · 17th percentile among 165 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Investar Holding Corporation's filings since 2017 show 5 warning events of 2 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, the latest 2022-11-17); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, 4 times, the latest 2026-06-22) (its current reports).

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

Track record

as filed
7.0/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+14.3% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 22% of this tense · 70th percentile among 152 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Investar Holding Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $43 million in fiscal 2016 to $144 million in fiscal 2025, up 14.3% a year; it rose in 9 of 9 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span14.3%top 50% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 13% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 44% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak0.0%top 13% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
3.8/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 1.9% a year. 29% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 1 sales, 2 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 38th percentile among 157 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Investar Holding Corporation's diluted share count grew about 1.9% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 29% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 1 sale and 2 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $96 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 33% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 43% 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?

3.0/1035% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
3.0/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 8%: 8¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 89%: owes 89¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 30th percentile among 161 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Investar Holding Corporation earned about 8 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 8.5% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 44% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 26% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 19% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
2.2/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 22% of 155 in its family; net margin 15.9%.

weight 33% of this tense · 22nd percentile among 155 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Investar Holding Corporation's standing among 155 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $144 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 26% by size; a net margin of 15.9% ranks in the bottom 22%; revenue growth of 11.3% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 18% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$144Mbottom 26% of its family
  • net margin15.9%bottom 22% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth11.3%bottom 18% of its family

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

Leadership

as filed
4.2/10

What are the people in charge doing?

bottom 42% of 150 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2014.

weight 22% of this tense · 42nd percentile among 150 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Investar Holding Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is D'Angelo, John J (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2014-06-30, 12.4 years (top 21% of its family); the 17 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5 years (bottom 17%); 7 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 17 people in charge now (bottom 31%; 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 charge7 in three years among 17 peoplebottom 31% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed5.0 yearsbottom 17% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record12.4 yearstop 21% 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?

2.8/1025% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Room to expand

SI estimate
1.5/10

How much room does it have to grow?

SI estimate 1.5/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).

weight 33% of this tense · 15th percentile among 162 sector filers · read for itself

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
Read from one part only, cash from operations less capital spending against revenue, which ranks in the bottom 15% of 162 in its family; the record does not carry two of the four parts: cash less debt against assets, cash from operations less capital spending against revenue, gross margin, research against revenue.
What the record cannot read
The record does not carry two of the four parts: cash less debt against assets, cash from operations less capital spending against revenue, gross margin, research against revenue.
How it was reasoned
one part: cash from operations less capital spending against revenue, the one part on file, ranked among 162 in its family.
Confidence
35 of 100
What would change it
A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Investar Holding Corporation's room to expand is put at 1.5 of 10 with a confidence of 35 of 100, because read from one part only, cash from operations less capital spending against revenue, which ranks in the bottom 15% of 162 in its family; the record does not carry two of the four parts: cash less debt against assets, cash from operations less capital spending against revenue, gross margin, research against revenue. A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

Growth drivers

as filed
3.0/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 30% of 152 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 30th percentile among 152 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Investar Holding Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 11.3% a year over the last three filed years against 14.3% over all 10, slowing (bottom 13% of its family); the newest year grew 0.1% (bottom 23%); capital spending grew 6.6% a year (top 48%) (its annual reports). Investar Holding 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-3.1 points a yearbottom 13% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth0.1%bottom 23% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending6.6%top 48% 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
3.8/10

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

bottom 38% of 150 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 38th percentile among 150 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Investar Holding Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $144 million in fiscal 2025 came in 14.6% below the $169 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 46% of its family); net income of $23 million against a prior three-year average of $24 million (bottom 20%); a net margin of 15.9% against 20.2% before (bottom 41%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-14.6%top 46% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-5%bottom 20% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-4.3 pointsbottom 41% 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 ISTR · research, not advice