Midland States Bancorp, Inc.

MSBIdata completeness 88%12 fiscal years on file

Data notes: no data for concept 'revenue'

The thesis, from the filings

Midland States Bancorp, Inc. earns about 27% on invested capital, far above its ~9% cost of capital, and has bought back 3% of its shares over 5 years — the marks of a durable business run for its owners. The estimate methods put fair value between $29.03 and $97.74 a share.Whether it’s worth owning at today’s price is the last question — and yours to answer, below.

i. The business — what you’d actually own
FigureFY 2021FY 2022FY 2023FY 2024FY 2025
Revenue
Net income$81.3M1$100.2M2$61.2M3$38M3−$124.3M3
Operating cash flow$334.4M4$285.8M5$153.4M6$176.5M6$125.7M6
Capital expenditure$2.72M7$3.47M8$8.73M9$6.9M9$5.35M9
Free cash flow (derived)$331.7M4$282.3M5$144.6M6$169.6M6$120.3M6
Total debt$76.8M10$42.3M11$34.9M12$87.5M13$60.2M13
Cash & equivalents$680.4M14$160.6M15$135.1M16$114.8M17$127.8M17
Diluted shares22.5M22.4M22.1M21.7M21.8M

Superscripts are receipts. Each links to the SEC filing the number came from (full list at the bottom).

ii. Your slice — ownership made literal
If you owned
shares
Net assets behind them
$259.01
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
−$56.92
Free cash flow it threw off
$55.11
Debt you’d be carrying
$27.56

10 shares is a claim on $259.01 of net worth that earned you −$56.92 and generated $55.11 of cash last year, against $27.56 of debt.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
27% avg · 5y
FY21 FY22 25%FY23 29%FY24 34%FY25 19%

It earned about 27% on invested capital, year after year, against a ~9% cost of capital — the footprint of real pricing power. Competition usually drags returns like this back down; here it hasn't.

seeing a moat in the numbers →
Management signal · capital allocation
−3% shares · 5y

Share count is down 3% over 5 years — management has been buying back stock, quietly handing owners a bigger slice. Total debt has fallen 22% — deleveraging.

reading capital allocation →

Signals, not verdicts — read from the filings above. Numbers don’t prove a moat; they show its footprint. You decide.

iv. What it’s worth — engine v0.1.0

The 3 estimate methods that apply put fair value between $29.03 and $97.74 a share. They rest on different assumptions, so where they diverge is the story.

DCF · Growth Exit 10Y
$90.62
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$144.6M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$97.74
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth0.0%
  • fcfBase$144.6M
Earnings Power Value
$29.03
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$61.2M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
not applicable
diluted EPS missing or non-positive — Graham Number undefined

Different models answer different questions — which to trust when →

v. The price question — last, on purpose
Is today’s price fair?
See live price ↗
Type a price. The ledger answers.
Or set your own belief
FCF growth, next 5 years0.0%
Discount rate (WACC)8.93%
Terminal growth2.5%
At your growth, a share is worth $97.74
The three cases
Bear0.0%$97.74
Base0.0%$97.74
Bull5.0%$120.65

Bear/base/bull growth = 0% / filed history / history + 5pp. Type a price to see the return each case implies.

Default growth 0.0%= this company’s own filed history (median-to-median FCF CAGR, clamped 0–20%). Your adjustments are recorded anonymously. They become the “what do owners actually believe” dataset.

Sources — the receipts
  1. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001466026-24-000009 (NetIncomeLoss)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001466026-25-000021 (NetIncomeLoss)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001466026-26-000020 (NetIncomeLoss)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001466026-24-000009 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001466026-25-000021 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  6. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001466026-26-000020 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  7. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001466026-24-000009 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  8. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001466026-25-000021 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  9. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001466026-26-000020 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  10. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001466026-23-000006 (ShortTermBorrowings)
  11. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001466026-24-000009 (ShortTermBorrowings)
  12. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001466026-25-000021 (ShortTermBorrowings)
  13. 10-K · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001466026-26-000020 (ShortTermBorrowings)
  14. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001466026-23-000006 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  15. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001466026-24-000009 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  16. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001466026-25-000021 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  17. 10-K · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001466026-26-000020 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)