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Commerce Bancshares, Inc.CBSHCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Financials›Regional Banks

Missouri-based regional bank known for conservative underwriting, offering retail, commercial and trust/wealth banking.

Momentum neutral 54
Mkt cap
$7.82B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
97%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$56.6M
20-day average traded
P/B
1.87×
price to book
ROE
14.9%
delivered
Implied ROE
12.1%
what the price asks
Next earnings
76 days
21 Jan 2027
Close · USD$55.04
1D-0.3%
1W0.0%
1M+0.8%
3M-6.2%
6M+6.1%
YTD+5.2%
1Y+7.6%
ATR %2.0%
Beta0.27
52w lowhigh9.7% off high

What Commerce Bancshares does

Missouri-based regional bank known for conservative underwriting, offering retail, commercial and trust/wealth banking.

Earns the spread on loans and deposits across Missouri and the Midwest, and gets a larger share of income from fees than most regional banks, including a commercial card and payments business and asset management for trust clients. Known for holding more securities and for conservative lending than many peers.

Products and services

  • Retail/consumer banking
  • Commercial banking
  • Trust and wealth management
  • Payments/card services

Customers

  • Missouri/Midwest consumers and businesses

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Financials
  • Banks
  • Regional bank

What could go right

  • Midwest deposit franchise stability
  • Fee income from trust/wealth and payments

What could go wrong

  • Net interest margin sensitivity to rates
  • Slow organic Midwest growth

Moat: narrow (brand, distribution). Long history of conservative, low-loss underwriting builds durable customer and investor trust.

Headquarters: Kansas City, Missouri, United States · Founded: 1865 · Employees: 4,667

Named competitors

Commerce Bancshares at a glance

Size Commerce Bancshares (CBSH) is a United States Financials company (Regional Banks) with a market value of $7.82B, the 902nd largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $55.04 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 6.1%, against +8.0% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 11th highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 9.3% over the last twelve months (peer median +9.4%); the operating margin is 40.2% (peer median 43.9%).

Valuation It trades at 1.87× book value against a peer median of 1.40× (7th most expensive of 21).

Price implies The share price implies a return on equity of about 12.1%; Commerce Bancshares delivers 14.9%, so the price asks less than the business earns today.

Short interest Short interest is 4.6% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 21 Jan 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10011011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026CBSH 108Peer median 108
Six months, rebased to 100: Commerce Bancshares against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Commerce Bancshares financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$2.31B$2.13B$2.07B$1.94B$1.52B
Revenue growth—+3%+6%+28%—
Net income$593M$561M$521M$473M$484M
Free cash flown/a$608M$550M$374M$490M
Capital expendituren/a$52.7M$46.1M$88.1M$65.2M
Total debt$2.71B$3.03B$2.96B$2.94B$2.88B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Commerce Bancshares competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

0%+20%-20%-10%0%+10%LUKN5876WALAUBANK3234105844PBCOLBIDFCFIRSTBMILCBCBNP8303UBSI8359RILBA0029665838GBCICBSH6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Commerce Bancshares is the large dot.

Fundamentals: return on equity against price-to-book

10%15%20%10×20×30×LUKN5876WALAUBANK3234105844PBCOLBIDFCFIRSTBMILCBCBNP83038359RILBA0029665838CFRGBCICBSHReturn on equity →Price / book →
A bank or insurer earning more on its equity usually trades at a higher multiple of book; points far above the trend are priced for more. Commerce Bancshares is the large dot.

Capital: ROE delivered against the ROE the price implies

0%10%20%30%40%0%20%40%5876WALAUBANK5844COLBIDFCFIRSTBMILCBCBNP8303RILBA0029665838CFRGBCICBSHROE delivered →ROE the price implies →
Above the diagonal = the price asks for a higher return on equity than the business earns today. Commerce Bancshares is the large dot.

Commerce Bancshares competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (CBSH vs CBC vs UMBF vs PB)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthROEPrice / bookImplied ROE
Commerce Bancshares CBSH$7.82B+6%+9%15%1.87×12.1%
Central Bancompany CBC$9.04B+38%+10%13%2.35×10.9%
UMB Financial UMBF$10.2B+2%+17%14%1.34×11.2%
Prosperity Bancshares, Inc.(R) PB$8.60B+4%+19%6%0.88×7.5%

How Commerce Bancshares compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Commerce Bancshares against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureCBSHPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+0.8%+3.6%8th lowest of 21
6-month return+6.1%+8.0%11th highest of 21
Return on equity14.9%10.4%7th highest of 21
Price / book1.87×1.40×7th most expensive of 21
Trailing P/E13.3×14.3×10th cheapest of 20
ROE the price implies12.1%9.7%7th most demanding of 20
ROE delivered14.9%10.9%7th highest of 20

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthROEPrice / bookImplied ROEDelivered ROE
Commerce Bancshares CBSHUnited States$7.82B+6%+9%15%1.87×12.1%14.9%
Luzerner Kantonalbank LUKN.SWSwitzerland$7.86B+28%-3%9%1.76×n/a8.9%
Shanghai Commercial & Savings Bank 5876.TWTaiwan$7.56B+34%-17%9%1.17×4.0%8.6%
Western Alliance Bancorp WALUnited States$8.13B-8%+8%13%1.11×12.9%13.2%
AU Small Finance Bank AUBANK.NSIndia$7.39B-10%+17%16%3.21×44.0%15.7%
KakaoBank 323410.KSSouth Korea$7.28B-15%+6%7%1.46×8.5%n/a
Kyoto Financial Group,Inc 5844.TJapan$7.14B-11%+19%8%0.79×5.9%7.9%
Prosperity Bancshares, Inc.(R) PBUnited States$8.60B+4%+19%6%0.88×7.5%6.5%
Columbia Banking System COLBUnited States$8.62B+1%+22%11%1.19×9.3%11.2%
IDFC First Bank IDFCFIRSTB.NSIndia$7.05B+10%+13%6%1.35×24.3%6.3%
Bank Millennium MIL.WAPoland$7.04B+26%-2%16%2.80×38.0%15.6%
Central Bancompany CBCUnited States$9.04B+38%+10%13%2.35×10.9%12.6%
BNP Paribas Bank Polska Spolka Akcyjna BNP.WAPoland$6.65B+20%-8%16%1.59×14.8%16.2%
SBI Shinsei Bank 8303.TJapan$9.20B-11%+27%10%1.15×4.7%9.9%
United Bankshares UBSIUnited States$6.57B+11%+4%9%1.20×9.7%9.4%
Hachijuni Nagano Bank 8359.TJapan$6.53B+6%+20%7%0.85×5.6%6.5%
Ringkjobing Landbobank A/S RILBA.CODenmark$6.44B+16%+2%20%3.58×10.2%20.5%
Bank of Suzhou 002966.SZChina$6.41B+12%+5%11%0.79×2.8%10.9%
Rakuten Bank 5838.TJapan$6.36B-9%+38%22%2.55×8.1%21.5%
Cullen/Frost Bankers CFRUnited States$9.65B+12%+2%16%2.52×14.2%16.2%
Glacier Bancorp GBCIUnited States$6.27B-1%+21%9%1.45×11.2%8.8%

Questions

Who are Commerce Bancshares's main competitors?
Named competitors: Central Bancompany (CBC), UMB Financial (UMBF), Prosperity Bancshares (PB). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Luzerner Kantonalbank (LUKN.SW), Shanghai Commercial & Savings Bank (5876.TW), Western Alliance Bancorp (WAL), AU Small Finance Bank (AUBANK.NS), KakaoBank (323410.KS), Kyoto Financial Group,Inc (5844.T).
Is Commerce Bancshares expensive compared with its peers?
On price / book it trades at 1.87× against a peer median of 1.40×, 7th most expensive of 21 in its peer set. The share price implies a return on equity of about 12.1%; Commerce Bancshares delivers 14.9%, so the price asks less than the business earns today.
How has Commerce Bancshares stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +6.1% against +8.0% for the median peer; over one year +7.6%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.