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OTC MARKETS · Banking · CIK 0000732417
$47.00
+0.51% · live
Updated
$421.0M market value
From HILLS BANCORPORATION's FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 18, 2026 · read the filing
HILLS BANCORPORATION takes deposits and lends money.
The financial picture is led by profitability, with debt worth watching.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Recent open-market selling by Phelan John W, not under a pre-arranged plan.
$47.0K sold in the last 120 days · Read the filing
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
Strong finances across the board.
From HILLS BANCORPORATION's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Cash
$123.4M → $42.1M
Profit
$47.6M → $60.5M
Free cash flow
$51.0M → $65.1M
Earnings per share
$5.23 → $6.75
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Mar 18, 2026
Deteriorated: -65.9%
$123.4M to $42.1MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +27.1%
$47.6M to $60.5MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
How the latest move compares (quote live), and what was published around it
HBIA rose 0.51% on the latest quote. The average Financials company tracked here moved −1.33%, and the S&P 500 −0.47%. That is 1.8 points above its sector and 1.0 points above the market.
No filing from HBIA and no news item about it appeared in the last 3 days.
These coincide with the move in time. None is presented as its cause: a price can move on news that names no company, on the wider market, or on trading that no document records.
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The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It earned $60.5M last year.
Not enough history has been reported to judge growth.
For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.15 in assets. Banks and insurers always carry high debt — that is how lending works — so this is normal for the industry and not comparable with other sectors.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 17 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 15% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
GoodFigures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $60.5M and generated $68.8M of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Mar 18, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Mar 18, 2026Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Mar 18, 2026Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Mar 3, 2023Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Mar 4, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interest expense | — | — | $57.0M | $16.1M | $17.6M | — |
| Income before tax | $75.7M | $60.2M | $48.5M | $60.9M | $62.1M | +25.7% |
| Net income | $60.5M | $47.6M | $38.2M | $47.8M | $48.1M | +27.1% |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $6.75 | $5.23 | $4.14 | $5.14 | $5.16 | +29.2% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Bought on the open market — 1,000 shares at $47.00 ($47.0K)
Holds 1,000 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 1,000 shares at $47.00 ($47.0K)
Holds 4,024 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Quarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Shares in issue +97.0% · Profit +39.5% · Earnings per share -29.2% — against Q2 FY2025
Read the filingAmended its charter or changed its financial year
Read the filingWrite down why you are following HILLS BANCORPORATION, what has to go right and what would change your mind, then see each new annual report measured against it. Sign in to start one.
Go deeper
Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 1 subsidiaries named in its 10-K. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Source: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-03-18. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
Coverage from the last 30 days
Nothing in the last 30 days
No articles have been published about HBIA in the past month. Its filings are listed alongside, and they are the more reliable record anyway.
Primary sources and further research
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from HBIA's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Mar 18, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
2 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Growth and Accounting had too few reported figures and are left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 5 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 8.0 | 5/5 | 10-K, filed Mar 18, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 8.0 | 5/5 | 10-K, filed Mar 14, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 8.0 | 4/5 | 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 8.0 | 4/5 | 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 8.0 | 5/5 | 10-K, filed Mar 4, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 8.0 | 3/5 | 10-K, filed Mar 5, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
5 of 5 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. 4 could not be evaluated and are excluded from the total rather than counted as failures.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Improved: +27.6%
$51.0M to $65.1MSignificant
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Improved: +29.2%
$5.23 to $6.75Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Changed: -18.5%
$4.5M to $3.7MSignificant
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Improved: -1.6%
9.1M to 9.0MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Aug 6, 2026 — read it.
Deteriorated: +97.0%
8.9M to 17.5MCritical
Why it matters: New shares divide the same company into more pieces, so each existing holding owns slightly less of it. Often pay for staff or an acquisition rather than anything wrong.
Improved: +39.5%
$18.7M to $26.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: -29.2%
$2.10 to $1.49Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: -19.8%
$52.5M to $42.1MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Aug 6, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Improved: +18.5%
$21.9M to $26.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +18.7%
$1.25 to $1.49Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: -24.9%
$56.1M to $42.1MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
1 other measure barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
The trailing P/E is 5.3x — investors pay $5.3 for each $1 of trailing profit.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Was granted or awarded shares — 42 shares at $40.50 ($1.7K)
Holds 6,775 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 56 shares at $40.50 ($2.3K)
Holds 7,663 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 56 shares at $40.50 ($2.3K)
Holds 18,724 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 56 shares at $40.50 ($2.3K)
Holds 6,933 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 57 shares at $39.37 ($2.2K)
Holds 6,877 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 57 shares at $39.37 ($2.2K)
Holds 18,668 shares after this filing.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Amended its charter or changed its financial year
Signed a material agreement
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Profit +52.0% · Free cash flow +40.9% · Earnings per share +55.3% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingChanged its auditor
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Cash -65.9% · Profit +27.1% · Free cash flow +27.6% — against FY2024
Read the filingChanged its auditor
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Profit +6.0% · Earnings per share +8.1% · Cash -13.1% — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Profit +6.0% · Earnings per share +8.1% · Cash -13.1% — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2025
Profit +51.5% · Earnings per share +54.8% · Cash +53.3% — against Q2 FY2024
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2025
Shares in issue +96.7% · Capital spending +55.5% · Profit +19.3% — against Q1 FY2024
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filing