First Interstate Bancsystem, Inc.
FIBKHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYFirst Interstate Bancsystem, Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 78/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Regional Banking.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
N/A
vs N/A in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
N/A
0/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Consistent Strategic Buyer
Meaningful spend appears across repeat years.
Composite score
78
High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity
Behavioral posture, nine reads.
Each index scores the issuer 0–100 against an EDGAR-anchored definition. Scores ≥ threshold elevate the issuer into the index's constituent set; the dominant index drives the masthead label.
Active Acquirer
Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A
- $2.2B disclosed buyer spend
- Filed within 19d
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 19d
- 362 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 23 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 23 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 23 activism filings
- Latest activism 2y ago
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 23 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
- 1 auditor change
- 1 NT late filing
- Latest event 2.5y ago; discounted
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 362 8-Ks
- Filed within 19d
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $4B
- 10-Q 19d ago
- 3 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($MM); ticks show recorded transaction count. Disclosure tier annotated where v6 audited corpus carries an entry.
Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $1,723M · Peak count: 2
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2024 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2023 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2022 | 1 | $1.7B | $1.7B | N/A |
| 2021 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2020 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Strategy posture.
The buyer's playbook in terms of strategic archetype: what each disclosed move says about how they're deploying capital.
Archetype mix
- Geographic Expansion33%
- Horizontal Consolidation33%
- Bolt On33%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- geographic_expansion
- horizontal_consolidation
- bolt_on
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“Upon completion of the merger, which is expected to close during third quarter 2017 subject to regulatory and shareholder approvals, we will become a regional community bank with over $12 billion in total assets with a geographic footprint that will span Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.”
“On July 24, 2015, we acquired all of the outstanding stock of Absarokee Bancorporation, Inc., a Montana-based bank holding company operating one wholly-owned subsidiary bank, United Bank, with branches located in three Montana communities adjacent to the Company's existing market areas.”
“We recently acquired Great Western, the parent company of GWB, a Sioux Falls, South Dakota based community bank, for total consideration of $1,723.3 million, consisting of the issuance of 46.9 million shares of the Company’s Class A common stock valued at $36.76 per share”
“The merger was completed on February 1, 2022 and the core systems were converted in May 2022, at which point GWB’s operations were integrated with the Company’s operations”
“the acquisition allowed the Company to gain market share in several of its current market areas and expand its market presence in Montana.”
Market context.
Where this issuer sits inside its SE-Cluster rollup wedge, with disclosed-spend rank plus trading comparables against the public peer set.
Primary market
Regional Banking
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $245.7B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $72.8B
- Recent vs prior
- +238%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
FIBK trades at a -3.0-turn discount to the Regional Banking peer median of 12.3×.
- EV / Revenue
- 3.2×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- -2.6×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 12.3×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16.7× | 3.7× | -0.9× | $13.7B | $12.7B | |
| 13.9× | 3.0× | -0.7× | $58.4B | $126.1B | |
| 10.7× | 3.2× | -2.1× | $3.4B | $7B | |
| 9.3× | 2.2× | -0.3× | $14.5B | $72.6B | |
First Interstate Bancsystem, Inc.FIBK | 9.3× | 3.2× | -2.6× | $1.2B | N/A |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Regional Banking. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.
Buyer landscape.
Public buyers whose stated archetypes, target categories, and recent cadence align with this issuer as a plausible acquisition target. Scores cross EDGAR signal and disclosure overlap.
Likely buyers
No public buyers surface as a strong target-side fit on current signal.
Likely sellers / divestiture partners
No reciprocal divestiture / strategic-alternatives matches identified.
Filing activity & signal stream.
Filing cadence and event-driven signals visible on EDGAR. The signal stream below is curated from restatement / spin-carve / activism categories, providing context for any near-term call.
Filing cadence
- 10-K (annual)262026-02-26
- 10-Q (quarterly)1022026-05-07
- 8-K (event)3622026-04-29
- Proxy / DEF 14A432026-04-16
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)232024-05-29
Signals on file
- elevated
Auditor change
2023-11-301 Item 4.01 filing on file; certifying accountant change.
- watch
Late-filing notice
2001-04-051 NT 10-K/10-Q filing on file.
- elevated
Activism on file
2024-05-2923 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
- info
Signal
Serial acquisition history
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
- info
Signal
Restatement risk
Audited corpus.
No audited record on file for this CIK in the current v6 corpus.
This issuer has not been extracted into the v6 audited acquirer corpus yet. The brief above pulls from ranking-level aggregates and issuer-index signal only.