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First Exchange Bank

$100M-$1B Specialty: Commercial WV FDIC cert 13020

White Hall, WV

7 branches across WV

2664 banks in the $100M-$1B peer group nationally 33 in WV
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First Exchange Bank faces 6 concerns requiring attention

Key Strengths include matched growth signatures, metrics ranked in the top 10%, and values meaningfully above the tier average.
Key Concerns include matched risk or decline signatures, metrics ranked in the bottom 10%, and values meaningfully below the tier average.

Key Strengths

Areas where this bank excels compared to peers

No key strengths identified

Key Concerns

Areas that may need attention

  • - Flatlined Growth: Bottom 33.8% in tier
  • - Delinquency Rate 1.73% above tier average
  • - Nonperforming Asset Ratio 1.32% above tier average
  • - ROA 0.38% below tier average
  • - Net Interest Margin 0.20% below tier average
  • - Efficiency Ratio 5.11% above tier average

Core Metrics

As of 2026-Q1

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (WV) National Avg Tier Percentile
Total Assets ? $385.2M
+0.4% YoY +2.3% QoQ
-$927K $386.1M
+0.5% YoY
$1.2B
+2.9% YoY
$6.2B
+9.1% YoY
59%
Total Loans ? $287.7M
-2.2% YoY -0.2% QoQ
+$32.0M $255.7M
+1.1% YoY
$864.0M
+4.3% YoY
$3.2B
+10.8% YoY
66%
Total Deposits ? $350.9M
+0.7% YoY +2.9% QoQ
+$22.9M $328.0M
+0.1% YoY
$1.0B
+3.7% YoY
$4.8B
+8.2% YoY
63%
Return on Assets ? 0.89%
+45.4% YoY +92.3% QoQ
-0.38% 1.27%
+12.9% YoY
0.95%
+29.1% YoY
1.23%
+13.4% YoY
31%
Net Interest Margin ? 3.73%
+17.1% YoY +7.6% QoQ
-0.20% 3.93%
+6.0% YoY
3.79%
+9.5% YoY
3.89%
+5.7% YoY
42%
Efficiency Ratio ? 70.40%
-8.6% YoY -9.4% QoQ
+5.11% 65.29%
-4.5% YoY
70.57%
-7.5% YoY
66.95%
-4.1% YoY
31%
Delinquency Rate ? 2.62%
+19.3% YoY +3.4% QoQ
+1.73% 0.89%
+18.8% YoY
0.74%
+24.2% YoY
0.95%
+18.8% YoY
Bottom 7.6% in tier
Loan-to-Deposit Ratio ? 82.00%
-2.9% YoY -3.0% QoQ
+5.36% 76.64%
+0.8% YoY
78.35%
+1.2% YoY
76.70%
+0.9% YoY
42%
Non-Interest-Bearing Deposit Share ? 18.79%
+8.8% YoY +7.9% QoQ
-3.23% 22.02%
-1.0% YoY
26.63%
-0.0% YoY
22.01%
-1.2% YoY
39%
Nonperforming Asset Ratio ? 1.96%
+15.5% YoY +0.8% QoQ
+1.32% 0.64%
+19.7% YoY
0.57%
+21.1% YoY
0.67%
+19.3% YoY
Bottom 7.3% in tier
Tier 1 Capital Ratio ? 12.63%
-4.2% YoY -1.4% QoQ
-3.21% 15.83%
+1.5% YoY
14.22%
+0.9% YoY
17.06%
+0.8% YoY
43%
Non-Interest Income / Assets ? 0.14%
+12.0% YoY -73.4% QoQ
-0.14% 0.28%
+9.3% YoY
0.14%
-2.1% YoY
0.32%
+4.1% YoY
71%

Signature Analysis

Composite behavioral patterns that combine multiple metrics to identify what stands out about this bank. Matched signatures only; metric-level callouts appear in the Key Strengths / Key Concerns summary above.

Strengths are growth signatures this bank matches (e.g. Revenue Diversifier, Profitability Leader).
Concerns are risk or decline signatures this bank matches (e.g. Margin Compression, Credit Quality Pressure).

Strengths (0)

No matched strength signatures this quarter

Concerns (1)

Flatlined Growth

risk
#174 of 512 • Bottom 33.8% in tier

Asset growth stalled (-2% to +2% YoY) despite healthy profitability (>0.25% ROA). Suggests untapped opportunity or strategic drift worth investigating.

Why this signature
Return on Assets: 0.89%
(Tier: 1.27%, National: 1.23%)
worse than tier avg
512 of 512 Community banks match · 687 nationally
→ Stable +32 banks QoQ | QoQ rank declining

Metric Rankings

See how this bank ranks across all tracked metrics compared to peers.

Strengths are metrics in the top 25% (75th percentile or higher).
Concerns are metrics in the bottom 25% (25th percentile or lower).
Comparing against 2664 peers in $100M-$1B

Top Strengths (0 metrics)

No strength rankings available

Top Weaknesses (2 metrics)

2471
Nonperforming Asset Ratio
credit_quality
Value: 1.96%
Peer Median: 0.64%
#2471 of 2664 Bottom 7.3% in $100M-$1B
2454
Delinquency Rate
credit_quality
Value: 2.62%
Peer Median: 0.89%
#2454 of 2654 Bottom 7.6% in $100M-$1B
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