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Security Federal Bank

$1B-$10B Specialty: Commercial SC FDIC cert 31100

Designations: ✓ Community bank ✓ CDFI-certified

Aiken, SC

19 branches across SC · GA

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 13 in SC.
  • Deposits -1.7% year over year ($1.4B on the books).
  • Delinquency rate 0.87%.
  • Return on assets 0.86%.
  • Efficiency ratio 70.44% vs a 59.73% peer average.
  • Loan-to-deposit ratio 49.78% vs a 85.04% peer average.

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885 banks in the $1B-$10B peer group nationally 13 in SC
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Security Federal Bank faces 4 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 11.1% in tier
  • - ROA 0.53% below tier average
  • - Net Interest Margin 0.57% below tier average
  • - Efficiency Ratio 10.71% above tier average

Core Metrics

As of 2026-Q2

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (SC) National Avg Tier Percentile
Total Assets ? $1.5B
-1.2% YoY -1.4% QoQ
-$1.3B $2.8B
-0.6% YoY
$1.5B
+5.6% YoY
$6.3B
+7.7% YoY
35%
Total Loans ? $677.7M
-1.5% YoY +1.5% QoQ
-$1.3B $2.0B
-0.3% YoY
$1.0B
+7.6% YoY
$3.2B
+9.4% YoY
Bottom 7.1% in tier
Total Deposits ? $1.4B
-1.7% YoY -1.2% QoQ
-$957.3M $2.3B
-0.5% YoY
$1.3B
+2.8% YoY
$4.9B
+7.3% YoY
39%
Return on Assets ? 0.86%
+33.2% YoY +10.0% QoQ
-0.53% 1.39%
+17.0% YoY
1.14%
+28.2% YoY
1.30%
+12.1% YoY
21%
Net Interest Margin ? 3.30%
+9.4% YoY +1.3% QoQ
-0.57% 3.87%
+6.2% YoY
3.68%
+4.4% YoY
3.95%
+4.9% YoY
26%
Efficiency Ratio ? 70.44%
-6.5% YoY -1.9% QoQ
+10.71% 59.73%
-12.6% YoY
67.24%
-4.2% YoY
70.05%
+2.5% YoY
20%
Delinquency Rate ? 0.87%
+0.5% YoY +7.3% QoQ
+0.00% 0.87%
+11.7% YoY
0.46%
-16.5% YoY
0.98%
+16.3% YoY
32%
Loan-to-Deposit Ratio ? 49.78%
+0.2% YoY +2.7% QoQ
-35.26% 85.04%
-0.1% YoY
74.60%
+2.0% YoY
79.03%
+2.3% YoY
Top 3.7% in tier
Non-Interest-Bearing Deposit Share ? 20.26%
+3.2% YoY +2.4% QoQ
-1.01% 21.27%
-1.5% YoY
21.25%
-0.8% YoY
21.98%
-0.6% YoY
52%
Nonperforming Asset Ratio ? 0.43%
+1.1% YoY +9.4% QoQ
-0.24% 0.67%
+11.7% YoY
0.29%
-15.5% YoY
0.69%
+15.8% YoY
49%
Tier 1 Capital Ratio ? 19.98%
+4.0% YoY +1.1% QoQ
+5.13% 14.84%
-0.4% YoY
17.16%
+0.2% YoY
17.09%
+0.8% YoY
Top 7.5% in tier
Non-Interest Income / Assets ? 0.36%
+35.3% YoY +115.0% QoQ
-0.17% 0.53%
+2.5% YoY
0.29%
+23.1% YoY
0.66%
+5.2% YoY
64%

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 (SC) National Avg Tier Percentile
Noninterest-Bearing 20.3%
+0.6pp YoY
+0.5pp QoQ
-1.1pp 21.4% 21.7% 22.2% 52%
Brokered Deposits 0.1%
-2.2pp YoY
-0.4pp QoQ
-9.4pp 9.5% 10.6% 8.5% 5%

Loan Composition

% of total loans & leases

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (SC) National Avg Tier Percentile
C&I 6.3%
+1.7pp YoY
+1.0pp QoQ
-7.7pp 14.0% 9.8% 12.5% 25%
CRE 59.8%
-1.6pp YoY
-0.1pp QoQ
+9.8pp 50.0% 43.3% 41.4% 75%
1-4 Family 32.5%
+0.1pp YoY
-0.8pp QoQ
+6.0pp 26.4% 44.4% 31.3% 70%
Consumer 3.4%
-0.1pp YoY
0.0pp QoQ
-1.3pp 4.7% 4.5% 5.0% 76%

Capital

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (SC) National Avg Tier Percentile
CET1 Ratio 20.0%
+0.8pp YoY
+0.2pp QoQ
+4.4pp 15.6% 18.1% 19.7% 91%
Leverage Ratio 10.8%
+0.3pp YoY
+0.3pp QoQ
-0.5pp 11.3% 12.3% 12.6% 57%
Total Capital Ratio 21.2%
+0.8pp YoY
+0.2pp QoQ
+4.5pp 16.7% 19.1% 20.8% 92%

Efficiency & Staffing

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (SC) National Avg Tier Percentile
Full-Time Employees 253
-2 (-0.8%) YoY
0 QoQ
-61 313 174 482 56%
Assets per Employee ($) $6.1M
-0.4% YoY
-1.4% QoQ
-$4.4M $10.5M $7.8M $8.8M 13%
Branch Count 19
0 YoY
0 QoQ
-1 20 12 18 63%

Asset Quality

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (SC) National Avg Tier Percentile
Past Due 90+ Days n/a n/a 0.2% 0.0% 0.4% n/a
Nonaccrual 0.9%
0.0pp YoY
+0.1pp QoQ
0.0pp 0.8% 0.5% 1.0% 69%
Allowance Coverage 2.32x
-1.4% YoY
-7.8% QoQ
-16.39x 18.71x 15.59x 20.23x 54%
Net Charge-off Rate (YTD) 0.1%
+0.1pp YoY
0.0pp QoQ
-0.2pp 0.3% 0.1% 0.2% 57%

Profitability

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (SC) National Avg Tier Percentile
ROE 9.1%
+1.7pp YoY
+0.7pp QoQ
-3.5pp 12.6% 11.7% 11.6% 26%
Cost of Funds (YTD) 1.8%
-0.4pp YoY
0.0pp QoQ
-0.2pp 1.9% 1.6% 1.7% 41%
Net Income ($, YTD) $6.7M
+34.1% YoY
— QoQ
-$12.5M $19.2M $9.6M $40.4M 21%

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
#19 of 162 • Bottom 11.1% 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: 0.86%
(Tier: 1.39%, National: 1.30%)
worse than tier avg
162 of 162 Mid-Market banks match · 719 nationally
→ Stable +34 banks QoQ

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)

34
Loan-to-Deposit Ratio
liquidity
Value: 49.78%
Peer Median: 85.04%
#34 of 885 Top 3.7% in $1B-$10B
67
Tier 1 Capital Ratio
capital
Value: 19.98%
Peer Median: 14.84%
#67 of 885 Top 7.5% in $1B-$10B

Top Weaknesses (3 metrics)

823
Total Loans
size
Value: $677.71M
Peer Median: $1.96B
#823 of 885 Bottom 7.1% in $1B-$10B
707
Efficiency Ratio
profitability
Value: 70.44%
Peer Median: 59.73%
#707 of 885 Bottom 20.2% in $1B-$10B
703
Return on Assets
profitability
Value: 0.86%
Peer Median: 1.39%
#703 of 885 Bottom 20.7% in $1B-$10B
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