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First National Bank

$1B-$10B Specialty: Commercial ME FDIC cert 4256

Designations: Community bank

Damariscotta, ME

18 branches across ME

884 banks in the $1B-$10B peer group nationally 15 in ME
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First National Bank has 2 strengths 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

  • + Efficiency Ratio 8.50% below tier average
  • + Delinquency Rate 0.18% below tier average

Key Concerns

Areas that may need attention

  • - Credit Risk Growth: Bottom 20.2% in tier
  • - Flatlined Growth: Bottom 44.7% in tier
  • - ROA 0.18% below tier average
  • - Net Interest Margin 1.02% below tier average

Core Metrics

As of 2026-Q1

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (ME) National Avg Tier Percentile
Total Assets ? $3.2B
+0.4% YoY +1.1% QoQ
+$349.3M $2.8B
-0.1% YoY
$2.2B
+5.5% YoY
$6.2B
+9.1% YoY
72%
Total Loans ? $2.4B
+0.9% YoY +0.5% QoQ
+$415.1M $2.0B
+0.6% YoY
$1.7B
+6.5% YoY
$3.2B
+10.8% YoY
74%
Total Deposits ? $2.7B
-1.7% YoY -0.0% QoQ
+$322.1M $2.3B
-0.3% YoY
$1.7B
+2.2% YoY
$4.8B
+8.2% YoY
73%
Return on Assets ? 1.18%
+24.7% YoY +5.0% QoQ
-0.18% 1.37%
+19.6% YoY
0.81%
+48.6% YoY
1.23%
+13.4% YoY
47%
Net Interest Margin ? 2.79%
+16.1% YoY +7.1% QoQ
-1.02% 3.82%
+6.9% YoY
3.42%
+9.8% YoY
3.89%
+5.7% YoY
Bottom 10.7% in tier
Efficiency Ratio ? 52.56%
-7.8% YoY +0.4% QoQ
-8.50% 61.06%
-4.6% YoY
70.43%
-11.2% YoY
66.95%
-4.1% YoY
71%
Delinquency Rate ? 0.71%
+146.4% YoY +23.2% QoQ
-0.18% 0.89%
+14.1% YoY
0.56%
+20.7% YoY
0.95%
+18.8% YoY
40%
Loan-to-Deposit Ratio ? 89.29%
+2.7% YoY +0.5% QoQ
+5.09% 84.20%
+0.3% YoY
100.20%
+2.7% YoY
76.70%
+0.9% YoY
40%
Non-Interest-Bearing Deposit Share ? 10.09%
+1.8% YoY -4.3% QoQ
-11.20% 21.29%
-2.5% YoY
16.54%
+3.4% YoY
22.01%
-1.2% YoY
Bottom 11.7% in tier
Nonperforming Asset Ratio ? 0.53%
+147.7% YoY +22.4% QoQ
-0.14% 0.67%
+15.6% YoY
0.47%
+26.7% YoY
0.67%
+19.3% YoY
43%
Tier 1 Capital Ratio ? 12.84%
+7.8% YoY +0.5% QoQ
-2.32% 15.16%
+2.0% YoY
14.56%
+2.5% YoY
17.06%
+0.8% YoY
45%
Non-Interest Income / Assets ? 0.13%
+8.3% YoY -75.0% QoQ
-0.13% 0.26%
+1.6% YoY
0.13%
+1.6% YoY
0.32%
+4.1% YoY
45%

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 (2)

Credit Risk Growth

risk
#86 of 420 • Bottom 20.2% in tier

Loan portfolio growing while delinquencies are rising. Expansion with deteriorating credit quality needs attention.

420 of 420 Mid-Market banks match · 1464 nationally
→ Stable -10 banks QoQ | QoQ rank improving

Flatlined Growth

risk
#68 of 150 • Bottom 44.7% 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: 1.18%
(Tier: 1.37%, National: 1.23%)
worse than tier avg
150 of 150 Mid-Market banks match · 687 nationally
→ Stable +32 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 884 peers in $1B-$10B

Top Strengths (0 metrics)

No strength rankings available

Top Weaknesses (2 metrics)

790
Net Interest Margin
profitability
Value: 2.79%
Peer Median: 3.82%
#790 of 884 Bottom 10.7% in $1B-$10B
782
Non-Interest-Bearing Deposit Share
funding
Value: 10.09%
Peer Median: 21.29%
#782 of 884 Bottom 11.7% in $1B-$10B
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