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Piper Sandler Maintains Overweight on First Merchants, Lowers Price Target to $46

BenzingaBenzinga Newsdesk

Piper Sandler analyst Nathan Race maintains First Merchants (NASDAQ:FRME) with a Overweight and lowers the price target from $51 to $46.

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