Finward Bancorp, the holding company for Peoples Bank, reported its second quarter 2025 financial results, highlighting a significant increase in net income available to common stockholders to $2.2 million, or $0.50 per diluted share. This marks a substantial rise from the $455 thousand, or $0.11 per diluted share, recorded in the previous quarter ending March 31, 2025. Key performance ratios also showed improvement. Return on equity increased to 5.66% for the quarter ended June 30, 2025, compared to 1.17% in the first quarter of the year. Similarly, return on assets rose to 0.42% from 0.09% in the prior quarter. The tangible book value per share, excluding accumulated other comprehensive losses, saw a modest increase to $43.47 as of June 30, 2025, up from $43.02 as of March 31, 2025. The tangible common equity/total assets ratio also improved slightly to 6.32% at the end of June 2025, from 6.26% recorded at the close of the previous quarter. No specific outlook or guidance for future periods was provided in the release.