Arrow Financial is a small regional bank with a perfect 4-quarter earnings beat streak and a cheap valuation on a growth basis, but the technical setup has already reached its analyst target with negative risk/reward on the engine's own asymmetry gate.
Thesis pillars
- Earnings Beat Streak→Stable
- Cheap Growth Adjusted Valuation→Stable
- Strong Yoy Earnings Growth→Stable
- +2 more pillars — see the Why tab for full reasoning
Arrow Financial Corporation (AROW) Stock Analysis
Range Bound setup · Catalyst-Driven edge
Financial Services · Banks - Regional
Wait for pullback to $38.12. Weak momentum; also recent C-suite change — blocks BUY_NOW at $39.89. Engine's entry $38.12 (Default 5pct Sticky) is the shallowest technical level that clears the 2:1 A.R:R minimum. Key risks: Analyst target reached - limited upside remaining; Negative momentum.
Arrow Financial Corporation is a bank holding company for Arrow Bank, N.A., a $4.42 billion-asset community bank operating 38 branches and 9 insurance offices concentrated in upstate New York, offering commercial and consumer banking, an indirect auto-lending network across New... Read more
Wait for pullback to $38.12. Weak momentum; also recent C-suite change — blocks BUY_NOW at $39.89. Engine's entry $38.12 (Default 5pct Sticky) is the shallowest technical level that clears the 2:1 A.R:R minimum. Key risks: Analyst target reached - limited upside remaining; Negative momentum. Chart setup: RSI 57 mid-range, Bollinger mid-band. Maintain position. Not compelling to add more. | News modifier +1 (HOLD_IF_HOLDING → STRONG_BUY_WAIT) Score 6.8/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 5/8 gates (clean insider activity, news events none recent, earnings proximity 15d clear, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on weak momentum and favorable risk/reward ratio. Suitability: aggressive.
About Arrow Financial Corporation
About Arrow Financial Corporation
Arrow Financial Corporation's bank subsidiary, Arrow Bank, N.A., held $4.42 billion in total assets and operated 38 branches and 9 insurance offices concentrated in upstate New York as of December 31, 2025, regulated primarily by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve. On July 1, 2026, Arrow closed its acquisition of Adirondack Bancorp and merged Adirondack Bank into Arrow Bank, expanding its regional retail and commercial banking footprint.
Arrow earns net interest income from commercial and industrial loans to small and mid-sized companies, residential and commercial mortgage lending, and consumer installment and home equity financing, funded primarily by deposits gathered from the communities Arrow Bank serves. An indirect lending program sources auto loans through a network of dealers across New York and Vermont, and Arrow periodically sells residential mortgage originations to Freddie Mac and other agencies while typically retaining servicing rights. Fee income comes from Arrow Bank's insurance agency subsidiary, a registered investment adviser, and trust operations that provide retirement planning, estate administration, and pension and benefit-plan administration, revenue streams the 10-K notes are sensitive to asset values and could decline if trust and wealth management customers liquidate holdings during an equity-market downturn. Arrow Bank also buys and sells participations in individual commercial loans, mostly within upstate New York, generally keeping such participations below 20% of commercial loans outstanding.
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Arrow's loan book and deposit base sit almost entirely within upstate New York, a structural concentration the 10-K itself flags: Arrow lends primarily to borrowers within its normal retail service area in upstate New York, with the indirect auto-lending line as the only meaningful exception extending into Vermont. That means Arrow, unlike larger regional banks, cannot spread the risk of a downturn unique to its home market over a broader geographic footprint, so a slowdown specific to the Glens Falls, NY region would hit loan quality, deposit growth, and trust and wealth management fee income simultaneously. The freshly closed Adirondack Bancorp acquisition deepens rather than diversifies this exposure, since Adirondack Bank operated within the same regional New York market Arrow already serves.
See also: Financial Services · Banks - Regional
From Arrow Financial Corporation's most recent 10-K filing, extracted July 6, 2026.
Recent developments
updated 2026-07-08Recent Developments — Arrow Financial Corporation
Material events (past 30 days)
- 8K Jul 1, 2026 MEDIUM Item 2.01: On July 1, 2026, Arrow closed its acquisition of Adirondack Bancorp, Inc., merging Adirondack Bank into Arrow Bank; banking-system conversion and integration is scheduled to complete later in 2026.
Latest news
- NEWS Arrow Financial Corporation Completes Strategic Acquisition of Adirondack Bancorp, Inc. - AOL.com — AOL.com positive
- NEWS Arrow Financial completes acquisition of Adirondack Bancorp By Investing.com - Investing.com India — Investing.com India positive
- NEWS Arrow Financial Corporation Completes Strategic Acquisition of Adirondack Bancorp, Inc. - PR Newswire — PR Newswire positive
- NEWS Arrow Financial Corporation completed the acquisition of Adirondack Bancorp, Inc. - marketscreener.com — marketscreener.com positive
- NEWS Arrow Financial (AROW) is a Top Dividend Stock Right Now: Should You Buy? - Yahoo Finance — Yahoo Finance positive
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Concentration Risks(10-K Item 1A)
- MEDIUMGeographicupstate New York10-K Item 1: 'Arrow Bank lends primarily to borrowers within the normal retail service area in upstate New York, with the exception of the indirect consumer lending line of business'
Material Events(8-K, last 90d)
- 2026-07-01Item 2.01MEDIUMOn July 1, 2026, Arrow closed its acquisition of Adirondack Bancorp, Inc., merging Adirondack Bank into Arrow Bank; banking-system conversion and integration is scheduled to complete later in 2026.SEC filing →
- 2026-07-01Item 5.02LOWIn connection with the Adirondack merger closing, the company appointed Rocco F. Arcuri, Sr. (details truncated in source); routine appointment tied to the transaction.SEC filing →
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Wait for pullback to $38.12. Weak momentum; also recent C-suite change — blocks BUY_NOW at $39.89. Engine's entry $38.12 (Default 5pct Sticky) is the shallowest technical level that clears the 2:1 A.R:R minimum. Key risks: Analyst target reached - limited upside remaining; Negative momentum. Chart setup: RSI 57 mid-range, Bollinger mid-band. Maintain position. Not compelling to add more. | News modifier +1 (HOLD_IF_HOLDING → STRONG_BUY_WAIT) Target $41.59 (+4.3%), stop $35.81 (−11.4%), A.R:R -1.9:1. Score 6.8/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $41.59 (+9.7% upside). Target $41.59 (+4.3%), stop $35.81 (−11.4%), A.R:R -1.9:1. Stop-loss: $35.81.
Analyst target reached - limited upside remaining; Negative momentum.
Arrow Financial Corporation trades at a P/E of 13.4 (forward 9.5). TrendMatrix value score: 7.6/10. Verdict: Buy (Wait for Entry).
9 analysts cover AROW with a consensus score of 3.9/5. Average price target: $41.
What does Arrow Financial Corporation do?Arrow Financial Corporation is a bank holding company for Arrow Bank, N.A., a $4.42 billion-asset community bank...
Arrow Financial Corporation is a bank holding company for Arrow Bank, N.A., a $4.42 billion-asset community bank operating 38 branches and 9 insurance offices concentrated in upstate New York, offering commercial and consumer banking, an indirect auto-lending network across New York and Vermont, and trust and wealth-management services. On July 1, 2026, Arrow completed its acquisition of Adirondack Bancorp, Inc., merging Adirondack Bank into Arrow Bank, with Adirondack shareholders receiving 1.8610 Arrow shares plus $18.72 in cash per share.