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The Farmers & Merchants Bank

under $100M Specialty: Other AL FDIC cert 1745

Designations: Community bank

Waterloo, AL

2 branches across AL

541 banks in the under $100M peer group nationally 12 in AL
View under $100M leaderboard (AL) →

The Farmers & Merchants Bank has 1 strength but faces 3 concerns

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

  • + Efficiency Ratio 30.45% below tier average

Key Concerns

Areas that may need attention

  • - Net Interest Margin 2.26% below tier average
  • - Delinquency Rate 2.71% above tier average
  • - ROA 0.18% below tier average

Core Metrics

As of 2026-Q1

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (AL) National Avg Tier Percentile
Total Assets ? $98.8M
+5.4% YoY -1.3% QoQ
+$36.6M $62.2M
-0.6% YoY
$2.5B
+0.2% YoY
$6.2B
+9.1% YoY
Top 1.5% in tier
Total Loans ? $4.8M
-10.9% YoY -8.7% QoQ
-$29.5M $34.2M
-1.4% YoY
$1.5B
+2.4% YoY
$3.2B
+10.8% YoY
Bottom 5.7% in tier
Total Deposits ? $87.2M
+4.1% YoY -0.9% QoQ
+$35.5M $51.7M
-0.7% YoY
$2.1B
-0.2% YoY
$4.8B
+8.2% YoY
Top 1.1% in tier
Return on Assets ? 0.65%
+65.7% YoY +304.4% QoQ
-0.18% 0.84%
-2.3% YoY
0.78%
-19.5% YoY
1.23%
+13.4% YoY
36%
Net Interest Margin ? 1.60%
+14.7% YoY +13.5% QoQ
-2.26% 3.86%
+2.8% YoY
3.99%
+5.2% YoY
3.89%
+5.7% YoY
Bottom 1.7% in tier
Efficiency Ratio ? 57.89%
-13.3% YoY -34.7% QoQ
-30.45% 88.34%
+0.3% YoY
72.13%
+5.1% YoY
66.95%
-4.1% YoY
79%
Delinquency Rate ? 4.08%
+394.1% QoQ
+2.71% 1.37%
+33.8% YoY
1.09%
+24.8% YoY
0.95%
+18.8% YoY
Bottom 7.9% in tier
Loan-to-Deposit Ratio ? 5.45%
-14.4% YoY -7.8% QoQ
-58.77% 64.22%
-0.7% YoY
67.08%
+2.0% YoY
76.70%
+0.9% YoY
Top 3.9% in tier
Non-Interest-Bearing Deposit Share ? 23.69%
+10.2% YoY -15.6% QoQ
-0.02% 23.71%
+0.3% YoY
23.89%
+0.0% YoY
22.01%
-1.2% YoY
52%
Nonperforming Asset Ratio ? 0.20%
+357.1% QoQ
-0.59% 0.79%
+28.2% YoY
0.71%
+24.8% YoY
0.67%
+19.3% YoY
53%
Tier 1 Capital Ratio ? 17.18%
-1.1% YoY +2.7% QoQ
-9.51% 26.68%
+2.0% YoY
16.96%
+13.8% YoY
17.06%
+0.8% YoY
59%
Non-Interest Income / Assets ? 0.04%
+17.9% YoY -76.0% QoQ
-0.62% 0.67%
+1.9% YoY
0.16%
-16.3% YoY
0.32%
+4.1% YoY
33%

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 (0)

No matched concern signatures this quarter

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 541 peers in under $100M

Top Strengths (4 metrics)

7
Total Deposits
size
Value: $87.22M
Peer Median: $51.74M
#7 of 541 Top 1.1% in under $100M
9
Total Assets
size
Value: $98.77M
Peer Median: $62.16M
#9 of 541 Top 1.5% in under $100M
22
Loan-to-Deposit Ratio
liquidity
Value: 5.45%
Peer Median: 64.22%
#22 of 541 Top 3.9% in under $100M
116
Efficiency Ratio
profitability
Value: 57.89%
Peer Median: 88.34%
#116 of 541 Top 21.3% in under $100M

Top Weaknesses (3 metrics)

533
Net Interest Margin
profitability
Value: 1.60%
Peer Median: 3.86%
#533 of 541 Bottom 1.7% in under $100M
511
Total Loans
size
Value: $4.75M
Peer Median: $34.25M
#511 of 541 Bottom 5.7% in under $100M
481
Delinquency Rate
credit_quality
Value: 4.08%
Peer Median: 1.37%
#481 of 521 Bottom 7.9% in under $100M
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