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Forward Bank

$1B-$10B Specialty: Commercial WI FDIC cert 28530

Designations: ✓ Community bank

Marshfield, WI

15 branches across WI · MN

NEW · Q2 2026 RECAP

Your Quarter, Wrapped

A 35-second highlight reel of your Q2 — the wins worth celebrating and the one signal worth watching, pulled straight from your scorecard data.

Q2 2026 at a glance

  • 1 of 885 banks in the $1B-$10B peer group nationwide — 1 of 30 in WI.
  • Deposits +9.5% year over year ($1.0B on the books).
  • Delinquency rate 0.28%.
  • Return on assets 0.90%.
  • Efficiency ratio 72.98% vs a 59.73% peer average.
  • Loan-to-deposit ratio 90.47% vs a 85.04% peer average.

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885 banks in the $1B-$10B peer group nationally 30 in WI
View $1B-$10B leaderboard (WI) →

Forward Bank has 2 strengths but faces 2 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

  • + Net Interest Margin 0.59% above tier average
  • + Delinquency Rate 0.58% below tier average

Key Concerns

Areas that may need attention

  • - ROA 0.49% below tier average
  • - Efficiency Ratio 13.25% above tier average

Core Metrics

As of 2026-Q2

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (WI) National Avg Tier Percentile
Total Assets ? $1.3B
+14.1% YoY +6.4% QoQ
-$1.5B $2.8B
-0.6% YoY
$1.2B
+13.5% YoY
$6.3B
+7.7% YoY
22%
Total Loans ? $938.1M
+14.0% YoY +6.1% QoQ
-$1.0B $2.0B
-0.3% YoY
$860.4M
+13.3% YoY
$3.2B
+9.4% YoY
28%
Total Deposits ? $1.0B
+9.5% YoY +3.5% QoQ
-$1.3B $2.3B
-0.5% YoY
$935.5M
+13.1% YoY
$4.9B
+7.3% YoY
18%
Return on Assets ? 0.90%
+0.8% YoY -2.6% QoQ
-0.49% 1.39%
+17.0% YoY
1.56%
+18.6% YoY
1.30%
+12.1% YoY
23%
Net Interest Margin ? 4.46%
+7.8% YoY +0.6% QoQ
+0.59% 3.87%
+6.2% YoY
3.83%
+8.5% YoY
3.95%
+4.9% YoY
Top 13.4% in tier
Efficiency Ratio ? 72.98%
+1.6% YoY +2.4% QoQ
+13.25% 59.73%
-12.6% YoY
62.90%
-5.1% YoY
70.05%
+2.5% YoY
16%
Delinquency Rate ? 0.28%
-28.6% YoY -14.8% QoQ
-0.58% 0.87%
+11.7% YoY
0.85%
+12.5% YoY
0.98%
+16.3% YoY
70%
Loan-to-Deposit Ratio ? 90.47%
+4.1% YoY +2.5% QoQ
+5.43% 85.04%
-0.1% YoY
87.22%
+0.9% YoY
79.03%
+2.3% YoY
39%
Non-Interest-Bearing Deposit Share ? 24.87%
+2.5% YoY +2.6% QoQ
+3.60% 21.27%
-1.5% YoY
18.65%
-1.9% YoY
21.98%
-0.6% YoY
71%
Nonperforming Asset Ratio ? 0.21%
-28.1% YoY -14.4% QoQ
-0.47% 0.67%
+11.7% YoY
0.63%
+16.4% YoY
0.69%
+15.8% YoY
71%
Tier 1 Capital Ratio ? 11.85%
+5.7% YoY -3.2% QoQ
-2.99% 14.84%
-0.4% YoY
15.02%
+1.5% YoY
17.09%
+0.8% YoY
30%
Non-Interest Income / Assets ? 0.52%
-2.1% YoY +112.0% QoQ
+0.00% 0.53%
+2.5% YoY
2.21%
+12.7% YoY
0.66%
+5.2% YoY
82%

Additional Detail

Deposit mix, loan mix, capital, efficiency, asset quality & profitability · As of 2026-Q2

Deposit Composition

% of total deposits

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (WI) National Avg Tier Percentile
Noninterest-Bearing 24.9%
+0.6pp YoY
+0.6pp QoQ
+3.5pp 21.4% 18.9% 22.2% 71%
Brokered Deposits 0.0% -9.5pp 9.5% 9.2% 8.5% 3%

Loan Composition

% of total loans & leases

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (WI) National Avg Tier Percentile
C&I 16.1%
+0.9pp YoY
+0.7pp QoQ
+2.1pp 14.0% 10.5% 12.5% 70%
CRE 25.8%
+0.4pp YoY
+0.1pp QoQ
-24.2pp 50.0% 46.4% 41.4% 9%
1-4 Family 30.2%
-0.1pp YoY
-0.3pp QoQ
+3.8pp 26.4% 32.3% 31.3% 66%
Consumer 3.0%
-0.2pp YoY
0.0pp QoQ
-1.8pp 4.7% 2.6% 5.0% 73%

Capital

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (WI) National Avg Tier Percentile
CET1 Ratio 10.9%
-0.3pp YoY
-0.3pp QoQ
-4.7pp 15.6% 15.5% 19.7% 9%
Leverage Ratio 9.2%
+0.4pp YoY
-0.2pp QoQ
-2.1pp 11.3% 12.6% 12.6% 16%
Total Capital Ratio 12.8%
+0.6pp YoY
-0.4pp QoQ
-3.9pp 16.7% 16.6% 20.8% 18%

Efficiency & Staffing

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (WI) National Avg Tier Percentile
Full-Time Employees 231
+28 (+13.8%) YoY
+6 (+2.7%) QoQ
-83 313 134 482 48%
Assets per Employee ($) $5.6M
+0.3% YoY
+3.7% QoQ
-$4.9M $10.5M $8.2M $8.8M 8%
Branch Count 15
0 YoY
0 QoQ
-5 20 9 18 50%

Asset Quality

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (WI) National Avg Tier Percentile
Past Due 90+ Days n/a n/a 0.2% 0.4% 0.4% n/a
Nonaccrual 0.3%
-0.1pp YoY
0.0pp QoQ
-0.5pp 0.8% 0.9% 1.0% 29%
Allowance Coverage 3.41x
+35.0% YoY
+16.6% QoQ
-15.30x 18.71x 56.89x 20.23x 68%
Net Charge-off Rate (YTD) 0.0%
0.0pp YoY
0.0pp QoQ
-0.2pp 0.3% 0.0% 0.2% 37%

Profitability

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (WI) National Avg Tier Percentile
ROE 9.7%
-0.6pp YoY
-0.2pp QoQ
-2.9pp 12.6% 11.8% 11.6% 31%
Cost of Funds (YTD) 1.6%
-0.1pp YoY
0.0pp QoQ
-0.4pp 1.9% 1.8% 1.7% 26%
Net Income ($, YTD) $5.5M
+10.4% YoY
— QoQ
-$13.8M $19.2M $7.9M $40.4M 14%

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 885 peers in $1B-$10B

Top Strengths (2 metrics)

120
Net Interest Margin
profitability
Value: 4.46%
Peer Median: 3.87%
#120 of 885 Top 13.4% in $1B-$10B
160
Non-Interest Income / Assets
revenue_mix
Value: 0.52%
Peer Median: 0.53%
#160 of 885 Top 18.0% in $1B-$10B

Top Weaknesses (4 metrics)

743
Efficiency Ratio
profitability
Value: 72.98%
Peer Median: 59.73%
#743 of 885 Bottom 16.2% in $1B-$10B
726
Total Deposits
size
Value: $1.04B
Peer Median: $2.32B
#726 of 885 Bottom 18.1% in $1B-$10B
694
Total Assets
size
Value: $1.28B
Peer Median: $2.79B
#694 of 885 Bottom 21.7% in $1B-$10B
682
Return on Assets
profitability
Value: 0.90%
Peer Median: 1.39%
#682 of 885 Bottom 23.1% in $1B-$10B
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