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Highlands Community Bank

$100M-$1B Specialty: Other VA FDIC cert 57420

Covington, VA

3 branches across VA

2664 banks in the $100M-$1B peer group nationally 22 in VA
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Highlands Community 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 3.5% in tier
  • - ROA 0.82% below tier average
  • - Net Interest Margin 0.61% below tier average
  • - Efficiency Ratio 19.48% above tier average
  • - Delinquency Rate 1.35% above tier average

Core Metrics

As of 2026-Q1

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (VA) National Avg Tier Percentile
Total Assets ? $189.7M
-1.1% YoY -0.1% QoQ
-$196.4M $386.1M
+0.5% YoY
$17.9B
+25.7% YoY
$6.2B
+9.1% YoY
24%
Total Loans ? $83.0M
-15.3% YoY -3.4% QoQ
-$172.7M $255.7M
+1.1% YoY
$10.6B
+27.9% YoY
$3.2B
+10.8% YoY
Bottom 12.6% in tier
Total Deposits ? $168.2M
-2.4% YoY +1.8% QoQ
-$159.8M $328.0M
+0.1% YoY
$14.1B
+22.4% YoY
$4.8B
+8.2% YoY
26%
Return on Assets ? 0.45%
+109.0% YoY +62.0% QoQ
-0.82% 1.27%
+12.9% YoY
1.15%
+53.9% YoY
1.23%
+13.4% YoY
Bottom 12.0% in tier
Net Interest Margin ? 3.32%
+3.6% YoY +1.1% QoQ
-0.61% 3.93%
+6.0% YoY
3.81%
+7.1% YoY
3.89%
+5.7% YoY
22%
Efficiency Ratio ? 84.77%
-0.6% YoY -2.9% QoQ
+19.48% 65.29%
-4.5% YoY
65.58%
-7.6% YoY
66.95%
-4.1% YoY
Bottom 10.3% in tier
Delinquency Rate ? 2.23%
+78.7% YoY +22.0% QoQ
+1.35% 0.89%
+18.8% YoY
0.77%
+12.4% YoY
0.95%
+18.8% YoY
Bottom 10.3% in tier
Loan-to-Deposit Ratio ? 49.37%
-13.2% YoY -5.1% QoQ
-27.26% 76.64%
+0.8% YoY
79.34%
+0.5% YoY
76.70%
+0.9% YoY
Top 8.9% in tier
Non-Interest-Bearing Deposit Share ? 25.75%
+6.1% YoY +1.9% QoQ
+3.73% 22.02%
-1.0% YoY
25.27%
-0.4% YoY
22.01%
-1.2% YoY
69%
Nonperforming Asset Ratio ? 0.98%
+53.0% YoY +17.9% QoQ
+0.34% 0.64%
+19.7% YoY
0.55%
+12.2% YoY
0.67%
+19.3% YoY
20%
Tier 1 Capital Ratio ? 12.35%
+2.7% YoY -0.9% QoQ
-3.48% 15.83%
+1.5% YoY
16.28%
+2.7% YoY
17.06%
+0.8% YoY
40%
Non-Interest Income / Assets ? 0.11%
+3.6% YoY -75.1% QoQ
-0.17% 0.28%
+9.3% YoY
0.18%
+27.1% YoY
0.32%
+4.1% YoY
58%

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 512 • Bottom 3.5% 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: 0.45%
(Tier: 1.27%, National: 1.23%)
worse than tier avg
512 of 512 Community banks match · 687 nationally
→ Stable +32 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 2664 peers in $100M-$1B

Top Strengths (1 metrics)

237
Loan-to-Deposit Ratio
liquidity
Value: 49.37%
Peer Median: 76.64%
#237 of 2664 Top 8.9% in $100M-$1B

Top Weaknesses (7 metrics)

2391
Efficiency Ratio
profitability
Value: 84.77%
Peer Median: 65.29%
#2391 of 2664 Bottom 10.3% in $100M-$1B
2382
Delinquency Rate
credit_quality
Value: 2.23%
Peer Median: 0.89%
#2382 of 2654 Bottom 10.3% in $100M-$1B
2345
Return on Assets
profitability
Value: 0.45%
Peer Median: 1.27%
#2345 of 2664 Bottom 12.0% in $100M-$1B
2330
Total Loans
size
Value: $83.02M
Peer Median: $255.72M
#2330 of 2664 Bottom 12.6% in $100M-$1B
2131
Nonperforming Asset Ratio
credit_quality
Value: 0.98%
Peer Median: 0.64%
#2131 of 2664 Bottom 20.0% in $100M-$1B
2067
Net Interest Margin
profitability
Value: 3.32%
Peer Median: 3.93%
#2067 of 2664 Bottom 22.4% in $100M-$1B
2024
Total Assets
size
Value: $189.65M
Peer Median: $386.08M
#2024 of 2664 Bottom 24.1% in $100M-$1B
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