Regional banking company S&T Bancorp (NASDAQ:STBA) announced better-than-expected revenue in Q4 CY2025, with sales up 10.8% year on year to $105.3 million. Its GAAP profit of $0.89 per share was 1.7% above analysts’ consensus estimates.
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S&T Bancorp (STBA) Q4 CY2025 Highlights:
- Net Interest Income: $90.96 million vs analyst estimates of $89.97 million (9.3% year-on-year growth, 1.1% beat)
- Net Interest Margin: 4% vs analyst estimates of 3.9% (8.7 basis point beat)
- Revenue: $105.3 million vs analyst estimates of $103.8 million (10.8% year-on-year growth, 1.4% beat)
- Efficiency Ratio: 54% vs analyst estimates of 55.2% (117.7 basis point beat)
- EPS (GAAP): $0.89 vs analyst estimates of $0.88 (1.7% beat)
- Tangible Book Value per Share: $29.11 vs analyst estimates of $29.25 (10.9% year-on-year growth, in line)
- Market Capitalization: $1.60 billion
"I'm extremely proud of the strong performance we delivered in the fourth quarter and across 2025. These results reflect disciplined execution of our strategy, continued momentum on our key business drivers and strong core profitability," said Chris McComish, chief executive officer.
Company Overview
Tracing its roots back to 1902 in western Pennsylvania's industrial heartland, S&T Bancorp (NASDAQ:STBA) is a Pennsylvania-based bank holding company that provides retail and commercial banking services, cash management, trust services, and investment advisory solutions.
Sales Growth
Net interest income and and fee-based revenue are the two pillars supporting bank earnings. The former captures profit from the gap between lending rates and deposit costs, while the latter encompasses charges for banking services, credit products, wealth management, and trading activities. Regrettably, S&T Bancorp’s revenue grew at a sluggish 3.4% compounded annual growth rate over the last five years. This was below our standard for the banking sector and is a rough starting point for our analysis.
Long-term growth is the most important, but within financials, a half-decade historical view may miss recent interest rate changes and market returns. S&T Bancorp’s recent performance shows its demand has slowed as its revenue was flat over the last two years. 
Note: Quarters not shown were determined to be outliers, impacted by outsized investment gains/losses that are not indicative of the recurring fundamentals of the business.
This quarter, S&T Bancorp reported year-on-year revenue growth of 10.8%, and its $105.3 million of revenue exceeded Wall Street’s estimates by 1.4%.
Net interest income made up 84.6% of the company’s total revenue during the last five years, meaning S&T Bancorp barely relies on non-interest income to drive its overall growth.
Our experience and research show the market cares primarily about a bank’s net interest income growth as non-interest income is considered a lower-quality and non-recurring revenue source.
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Tangible Book Value Per Share (TBVPS)
Banks are balance sheet-driven businesses because they generate earnings primarily through borrowing and lending. They’re also valued based on their balance sheet strength and ability to compound book value (another name for shareholders’ equity) over time.
Because of this, tangible book value per share (TBVPS) emerges as the critical performance benchmark. By excluding intangible assets with uncertain liquidation values, this metric captures real, liquid net worth per share. Other (and more commonly known) per-share metrics like EPS can sometimes be murky due to M&A or accounting rules allowing for loan losses to be spread out.
S&T Bancorp’s TBVPS grew at an excellent 8.2% annual clip over the last five years. TBVPS growth has also accelerated recently, growing by 10.8% annually over the last two years from $23.70 to $29.11 per share.
Over the next 12 months, Consensus estimates call for S&T Bancorp’s TBVPS to grow by 8.2% to $31.50, paltry growth rate.
Key Takeaways from S&T Bancorp’s Q4 Results
It was good to see S&T Bancorp narrowly top analysts’ revenue expectations this quarter. We were also happy its net interest income narrowly outperformed Wall Street’s estimates, leading to a slight EPS beat. Zooming out, we think this was a solid quarter. The stock remained flat at $41.94 immediately following the results.
Is S&T Bancorp an attractive investment opportunity right now? The latest quarter does matter, but not nearly as much as longer-term fundamentals and valuation, when deciding if the stock is a buy. We cover that in our actionable full research report which you can read here (it’s free).