Company Analysis

UMB Financial Corporation (UMBF)

Nasdaq: UMBF · National Commercial Banks · Kansas City, MO · filing with the SEC since 1994
Grade5.9
◀ Past 5.3● Present 5.4▶ Future 7.6

The grade of UMB Financial Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.9/10
◀ Past5.340% of the headline
● Present5.435% of the headline
▶ Future7.625% 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?

5.3/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.5/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 45% of this tense · 75th percentile among 83 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

UMB Financial Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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

Track record

as filed
6.6/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+22.9% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 22% of this tense · 66th percentile among 79 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

UMB Financial Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $523 million in fiscal 2016 to $3.4 billion in fiscal 2025, up 22.9% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 6% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span22.9%top 9% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 31% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 42% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak6.3%bottom 47% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
1.3/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 14.9% a year. 19% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 25 sales, 6 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 13th percentile among 81 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, UMB Financial Corporation's diluted share count grew about 14.9% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 19% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 25 sales and 6 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-04, buying about $250 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 9% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 18% 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?

5.4/1035% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
2.8/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 9%: 9¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 89%: owes 89¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 28th percentile among 83 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, UMB Financial Corporation earned about 9 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 50.3% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 44% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 39% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 2% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
7.0/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 29% of 79 in its family; net margin 20.9%.

weight 33% of this tense · 71st percentile among 79 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

UMB Financial Corporation's standing among 79 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $3.4 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 20% by size; a net margin of 20.9% ranks in the bottom 34%; revenue growth of 43.4% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 2% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$3.35Btop 20% of its family
  • net margin20.9%bottom 34% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth43.4%top 2% of its family

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

Leadership

as filed
8.3/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 17% of 74 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2006.

weight 22% of this tense · 83rd percentile among 74 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

UMB Financial Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Kemper, J Mariner (Chairman and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2006-06-15, 20.4 years (top 5% of its family); the 28 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 7.4 years (top 38%); 4 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 28 people in charge now (top 8%; 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 charge4 in three years among 28 peopletop 8% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed7.4 yearstop 38% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record20.4 yearstop 5% 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?

7.6/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
8.3/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 17% of 71 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 83rd percentile among 71 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

UMB Financial Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $7.8 billion against debt of $474 million leaves 10% of its assets as net cash, top 10% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 29.2% of revenue (top 25%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets10.0%top 10% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue29.2%top 25% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
7.5/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 25% of 79 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 75th percentile among 79 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

UMB Financial Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 43.4% a year over the last three filed years against 22.9% over all 10, speeding up (top 1% of its family); the newest year grew 54.5% (top 1%); capital spending grew -2.1% a year (bottom 27%) (its annual reports). UMB Financial 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+20.5 points a yeartop 1% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth54.5%top 1% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-2.1%bottom 27% 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
7.0/10

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

top 30% of 76 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 70th percentile among 76 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

UMB Financial Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $3.4 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 11.9% above the $3.0 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 2% of its family); net income of $702 million against a prior three-year average of $408 million (top 15%); a net margin of 20.9% against 25.8% before (bottom 27%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace11.9%top 2% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+72%top 15% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-4.8 pointsbottom 27% 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 UMBF · research, not advice