FRME vs HWKN Comparison

First Merchants Corp, through its subsidiaries, provides its customers with financial services delivered locally by bankers. It offers personal banking, business banking, real estate mortgage lending, cash management services, brokerage, wealth management, and insurance. The company reports in only one segment, which is community banking.

Hawkins Inc manufactures and sells a variety of chemicals and ingredients. The firm organizes itself into three segments based on the product type. The Industrial Solutions segment, provides industrial chemicals, products and services to industries such as industrial manufacturing, chemical processing, electronics, energy, plating, and surface finishing. The water treatment segment, which generates the majority of revenue sells chemicals and equipment used to treat potable water, municipal and industrial wastewater, industrial process water, and non-residential swimming pool water. Food and Health Sciences segment specializes in processing and formulation solutions as well as ingredient distribution to manufacturers in the nutrition, food, pharmaceutical, and agricultural markets.