Bank of N.t. Butterfield & Son Ltd. NTB
What this company does
Written from the business description in Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Ltd's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 18 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.
Revenue compounded at +4.2% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +9.5%, earnings per share at +13.5%.
The share count fell from 0.05B to 0.04B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.
Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.
Each USD of equity produced 21 cents of profit this year.
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue $B | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Operating income $B | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | · | · | · | · | · |
| EBITDA $B | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | · | · | · | · | · |
| Income tax $B | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | −0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | −0.0 |
| Net income $B | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Free cash flow $B | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| EPS, diluted $ | 5.47 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | 1.23 | 1.65 |
| Dividend / sh $ | 1.88 | 1.76 | 1.76 | 1.76 | 1.76 | 1.76 | 1.76 | 1.52 | 1.28 | 0.40 | 0.50 | 0.50 |
| Payout % | 34 | 37 | 38 | 41 | 54 | 60 | 53 | 43 | 46 | 17 | 32 | 25 |
| ROE % | 21.4 | 21.4 | 24.1 | 23.2 | 16.6 | 15.1 | 19.2 | 22.9 | 20.0 | 15.9 | 9.7 | 12.7 |
| Shares out B | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | · |
Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.
Reconciled in 12 of 19 fiscal years. 34 checks could not be computed.