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First Security Bank and Trust Company

$100M-$1B Specialty: Agricultural IA FDIC cert 1852

Charles City, IA

11 branches across IA

2664 banks in the $100M-$1B peer group nationally 166 in IA
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First Security Bank and Trust Company has 1 strength but faces 4 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

  • + Delinquency Rate 0.71% below tier average

Key Concerns

Areas that may need attention

  • - Deposit Outflow: Bottom 25.7% in tier
  • - Efficiency Ratio 22.70% above tier average
  • - ROA 0.80% below tier average
  • - Net Interest Margin 0.49% below tier average

Core Metrics

As of 2026-Q1

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (IA) National Avg Tier Percentile
Total Assets ? $549.8M
-4.0% YoY -1.5% QoQ
+$163.7M $386.1M
+0.5% YoY
$560.1M
+4.8% YoY
$6.2B
+9.1% YoY
77%
Total Loans ? $349.1M
-3.8% YoY +0.1% QoQ
+$93.4M $255.7M
+1.1% YoY
$379.9M
+5.0% YoY
$3.2B
+10.8% YoY
74%
Total Deposits ? $477.8M
-6.6% YoY -0.4% QoQ
+$149.8M $328.0M
+0.1% YoY
$469.6M
+4.4% YoY
$4.8B
+8.2% YoY
77%
Return on Assets ? 0.47%
+200.5% YoY -19.5% QoQ
-0.80% 1.27%
+12.9% YoY
1.31%
+22.6% YoY
1.23%
+13.4% YoY
Bottom 12.5% in tier
Net Interest Margin ? 3.44%
+9.8% YoY +2.6% QoQ
-0.49% 3.93%
+6.0% YoY
3.52%
+10.3% YoY
3.89%
+5.7% YoY
28%
Efficiency Ratio ? 87.99%
-8.1% YoY +0.8% QoQ
+22.70% 65.29%
-4.5% YoY
58.40%
-7.6% YoY
66.95%
-4.1% YoY
Bottom 7.8% in tier
Delinquency Rate ? 0.18%
-16.2% YoY -2.0% QoQ
-0.71% 0.89%
+18.8% YoY
0.92%
+14.5% YoY
0.95%
+18.8% YoY
66%
Loan-to-Deposit Ratio ? 73.07%
+3.0% YoY +0.5% QoQ
-3.57% 76.64%
+0.8% YoY
77.40%
+1.1% YoY
76.70%
+0.9% YoY
61%
Non-Interest-Bearing Deposit Share ? 15.88%
+2.8% YoY -4.8% QoQ
-6.14% 22.02%
-1.0% YoY
17.87%
+0.7% YoY
22.01%
-1.2% YoY
27%
Nonperforming Asset Ratio ? 0.12%
-18.6% YoY -0.4% QoQ
-0.52% 0.64%
+19.7% YoY
0.58%
+11.7% YoY
0.67%
+19.3% YoY
68%
Tier 1 Capital Ratio ? 14.43%
+12.3% YoY +0.7% QoQ
-1.40% 15.83%
+1.5% YoY
14.34%
+1.8% YoY
17.06%
+0.8% YoY
61%
Non-Interest Income / Assets ? 0.14%
-0.6% YoY -76.5% QoQ
-0.14% 0.28%
+9.3% YoY
0.12%
+10.7% YoY
0.32%
+4.1% YoY
69%

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)

Deposit Outflow

decline
#131 of 506 • Bottom 25.7% in tier

Deposits down 0.5%+ YoY. Funding base eroding - rate competition or franchise weakness.

506 of 506 Community banks match · 656 nationally
→ Stable -8 banks QoQ | QoQ rank improving

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 (2 metrics)

606
Total Deposits
size
Value: $477.81M
Peer Median: $327.97M
#606 of 2664 Top 22.7% in $100M-$1B
627
Total Assets
size
Value: $549.78M
Peer Median: $386.08M
#627 of 2664 Top 23.5% in $100M-$1B

Top Weaknesses (2 metrics)

2456
Efficiency Ratio
profitability
Value: 87.99%
Peer Median: 65.29%
#2456 of 2664 Bottom 7.8% in $100M-$1B
2332
Return on Assets
profitability
Value: 0.47%
Peer Median: 1.27%
#2332 of 2664 Bottom 12.5% in $100M-$1B
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