Skip to main content

BlastPoint's Banking Scorecard

Starion Bank

$1B-$10B Specialty: Commercial ND FDIC cert 33758

Designations: ✓ Community bank

Bismarck, ND

16 branches across ND · WI

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 12 in ND.
  • Deposits +3.5% year over year ($1.8B on the books).
  • Delinquency rate 1.47%.
  • Return on assets 1.14%.
  • Efficiency ratio 65.38% vs a 59.73% peer average.
  • Loan-to-deposit ratio 69.41% vs a 85.04% peer average.

Animation disabled (reduced-motion preference). Full details in the Core Metrics table below.

885 banks in the $1B-$10B peer group nationally 12 in ND
View $1B-$10B leaderboard (ND) →

Starion Bank faces 5 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 47.5% in tier
  • - ROA 0.25% below tier average
  • - Net Interest Margin 0.92% below tier average
  • - Efficiency Ratio 5.65% above tier average
  • - Delinquency Rate 0.61% above tier average

Core Metrics

As of 2026-Q2

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (ND) National Avg Tier Percentile
Total Assets ? $2.1B
+0.6% YoY -1.8% QoQ
-$695.3M $2.8B
-0.6% YoY
$1.1B
+6.9% YoY
$6.3B
+7.7% YoY
52%
Total Loans ? $1.3B
+5.3% YoY -0.9% QoQ
-$698.6M $2.0B
-0.3% YoY
$805.2M
+6.2% YoY
$3.2B
+9.4% YoY
46%
Total Deposits ? $1.8B
+3.5% YoY -1.7% QoQ
-$496.8M $2.3B
-0.5% YoY
$922.2M
+5.0% YoY
$4.9B
+7.3% YoY
54%
Return on Assets ? 1.14%
+31.6% YoY +3.2% QoQ
-0.25% 1.39%
+17.0% YoY
1.44%
+8.8% YoY
1.30%
+12.1% YoY
40%
Net Interest Margin ? 2.95%
+22.8% YoY +2.2% QoQ
-0.92% 3.87%
+6.2% YoY
3.79%
+4.3% YoY
3.95%
+4.9% YoY
Bottom 13.2% in tier
Efficiency Ratio ? 65.38%
-4.6% YoY -0.2% QoQ
+5.65% 59.73%
-12.6% YoY
59.23%
-3.7% YoY
70.05%
+2.5% YoY
31%
Delinquency Rate ? 1.47%
+554.4% YoY +48.5% QoQ
+0.61% 0.87%
+11.7% YoY
0.86%
+16.6% YoY
0.98%
+16.3% YoY
16%
Loan-to-Deposit Ratio ? 69.41%
+1.7% YoY +0.8% QoQ
-15.63% 85.04%
-0.1% YoY
73.82%
-0.7% YoY
79.03%
+2.3% YoY
Top 14.7% in tier
Non-Interest-Bearing Deposit Share ? 15.14%
+13.9% YoY -2.7% QoQ
-6.14% 21.27%
-1.5% YoY
21.56%
+2.8% YoY
21.98%
-0.6% YoY
28%
Nonperforming Asset Ratio ? 0.89%
+584.9% YoY +49.8% QoQ
+0.21% 0.67%
+11.7% YoY
0.54%
+8.1% YoY
0.69%
+15.8% YoY
25%
Tier 1 Capital Ratio ? 14.03%
+2.2% YoY +1.2% QoQ
-0.81% 14.84%
-0.4% YoY
12.90%
+0.7% YoY
17.09%
+0.8% YoY
64%
Non-Interest Income / Assets ? 0.36%
+14.2% YoY +105.6% QoQ
-0.17% 0.53%
+2.5% YoY
0.22%
-1.4% 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 (ND) National Avg Tier Percentile
Noninterest-Bearing 15.1%
+1.8pp YoY
-0.4pp QoQ
-6.2pp 21.4% 21.6% 22.2% 28%
Brokered Deposits 0.4%
-0.4pp YoY
0.0pp QoQ
-9.0pp 9.5% 6.0% 8.5% 10%

Loan Composition

% of total loans & leases

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (ND) National Avg Tier Percentile
C&I 13.8%
-1.6pp YoY
-1.0pp QoQ
-0.2pp 14.0% 12.9% 12.5% 63%
CRE 49.7%
+2.6pp YoY
+1.0pp QoQ
-0.3pp 50.0% 29.0% 41.4% 49%
1-4 Family 14.0%
+0.5pp YoY
+0.6pp QoQ
-12.4pp 26.4% 12.3% 31.3% 28%
Consumer 1.8%
-0.1pp YoY
-0.2pp QoQ
-2.9pp 4.7% 4.5% 5.0% 60%

Capital

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (ND) National Avg Tier Percentile
CET1 Ratio 14.0%
+0.3pp YoY
+0.2pp QoQ
-1.6pp 15.6% 15.3% 19.7% 59%
Leverage Ratio 9.4%
+0.6pp YoY
0.0pp QoQ
-1.9pp 11.3% 10.7% 12.6% 22%
Total Capital Ratio 15.3%
+0.3pp YoY
+0.2pp QoQ
-1.4pp 16.7% 16.3% 20.8% 60%

Efficiency & Staffing

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (ND) National Avg Tier Percentile
Full-Time Employees 238
+2 (+0.8%) YoY
-3 (-1.2%) QoQ
-76 313 138 482 51%
Assets per Employee ($) $8.8M
-0.2% YoY
-0.5% QoQ
-$1.7M $10.5M $8.3M $8.8M 52%
Branch Count 16
0 YoY
0 QoQ
-4 20 7 18 53%

Asset Quality

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (ND) National Avg Tier Percentile
Past Due 90+ Days 0.0%
0.0pp YoY
0.0pp QoQ
-0.2pp 0.2% 0.5% 0.4% 26%
Nonaccrual 1.5%
+1.3pp YoY
+0.5pp QoQ
+0.6pp 0.8% 0.7% 1.0% 86%
Allowance Coverage 1.04x
-83.2% YoY
-30.9% QoQ
-17.67x 18.71x 73.79x 20.23x 25%
Net Charge-off Rate (YTD) -0.0%
0.0pp YoY
+0.1pp QoQ
-0.3pp 0.3% 0.1% 0.2% 13%

Profitability

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (ND) National Avg Tier Percentile
ROE 13.7%
+1.2pp YoY
+0.4pp QoQ
+1.1pp 12.6% 16.0% 11.6% 63%
Cost of Funds (YTD) 1.9%
-0.5pp YoY
0.0pp QoQ
0.0pp 1.9% 1.7% 1.7% 49%
Net Income ($, YTD) $12.0M
+32.0% YoY
— QoQ
-$7.3M $19.2M $7.0M $40.4M 48%

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
#78 of 162 • Bottom 47.5% 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: 1.14%
(Tier: 1.39%, National: 1.30%)
worse than tier avg
162 of 162 Mid-Market banks match · 719 nationally
→ Stable +34 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 885 peers in $1B-$10B

Top Strengths (1 metrics)

131
Loan-to-Deposit Ratio
liquidity
Value: 69.41%
Peer Median: 85.04%
#131 of 885 Top 14.7% in $1B-$10B

Top Weaknesses (2 metrics)

769
Net Interest Margin
profitability
Value: 2.95%
Peer Median: 3.87%
#769 of 885 Bottom 13.2% in $1B-$10B
738
Delinquency Rate
credit_quality
Value: 1.47%
Peer Median: 0.87%
#738 of 882 Bottom 16.4% in $1B-$10B
Powered by BlastPoint © 2026