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South Central Bank, Inc.

$1B-$10B Specialty: Commercial KY FDIC cert 5854

Designations: ✓ Community bank

Glasgow, KY

27 branches across KY · TN

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 16 in KY.
  • Deposits +14.1% year over year ($2.0B on the books).
  • Delinquency rate 0.31%.
  • Return on assets 1.41%.
  • Efficiency ratio 53.06% vs a 59.73% peer average.
  • Loan-to-deposit ratio 89.69% vs a 85.04% peer average.

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885 banks in the $1B-$10B peer group nationally 16 in KY
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South Central Bank, Inc. has 2 strengths but faces 1 concern

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 6.67% below tier average
  • + Delinquency Rate 0.56% below tier average

Key Concerns

Areas that may need attention

  • - Net Interest Margin 0.06% below tier average

Core Metrics

As of 2026-Q2

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (KY) National Avg Tier Percentile
Total Assets ? $2.3B
+11.1% YoY +4.2% QoQ
-$535.7M $2.8B
-0.6% YoY
$707.7M
+4.5% YoY
$6.3B
+7.7% YoY
56%
Total Loans ? $1.8B
+11.9% YoY +2.4% QoQ
-$198.0M $2.0B
-0.3% YoY
$500.8M
+5.4% YoY
$3.2B
+9.4% YoY
61%
Total Deposits ? $2.0B
+14.1% YoY +4.4% QoQ
-$350.7M $2.3B
-0.5% YoY
$593.9M
+4.1% YoY
$4.9B
+7.3% YoY
59%
Return on Assets ? 1.41%
+16.7% YoY +3.2% QoQ
+0.02% 1.39%
+17.0% YoY
1.28%
+12.5% YoY
1.30%
+12.1% YoY
63%
Net Interest Margin ? 3.81%
+8.8% YoY +0.2% QoQ
-0.06% 3.87%
+6.2% YoY
3.93%
+6.2% YoY
3.95%
+4.9% YoY
56%
Efficiency Ratio ? 53.06%
-7.6% YoY -2.1% QoQ
-6.67% 59.73%
-12.6% YoY
64.24%
-3.9% YoY
70.05%
+2.5% YoY
68%
Delinquency Rate ? 0.31%
-10.4% YoY -21.8% QoQ
-0.56% 0.87%
+11.7% YoY
0.91%
+20.0% YoY
0.98%
+16.3% YoY
68%
Loan-to-Deposit Ratio ? 89.69%
-1.9% YoY -1.9% QoQ
+4.65% 85.04%
-0.1% YoY
81.25%
+1.1% YoY
79.03%
+2.3% YoY
42%
Non-Interest-Bearing Deposit Share ? 21.11%
-11.1% YoY -4.4% QoQ
-0.16% 21.27%
-1.5% YoY
23.27%
-2.3% YoY
21.98%
-0.6% YoY
57%
Nonperforming Asset Ratio ? 0.26%
-11.2% YoY -23.8% QoQ
-0.42% 0.67%
+11.7% YoY
0.64%
+23.9% YoY
0.69%
+15.8% YoY
67%
Tier 1 Capital Ratio ? 12.08%
+2.2% YoY +0.4% QoQ
-2.76% 14.84%
-0.4% YoY
16.76%
+11.6% YoY
17.09%
+0.8% YoY
35%
Non-Interest Income / Assets ? 0.30%
-0.3% YoY +114.6% QoQ
-0.23% 0.53%
+2.5% YoY
0.31%
+0.1% YoY
0.66%
+5.2% YoY
52%

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 (KY) National Avg Tier Percentile
Noninterest-Bearing 21.1%
-2.6pp YoY
-1.0pp QoQ
-0.3pp 21.4% 23.5% 22.2% 56%
Brokered Deposits 4.6%
+3.7pp YoY
+1.4pp QoQ
-4.9pp 9.5% 5.4% 8.5% 47%

Loan Composition

% of total loans & leases

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (KY) National Avg Tier Percentile
C&I 9.0%
-0.1pp YoY
-0.2pp QoQ
-5.0pp 14.0% 8.6% 12.5% 39%
CRE 52.0%
-0.5pp YoY
-0.8pp QoQ
+2.0pp 50.0% 37.1% 41.4% 57%
1-4 Family 29.3%
+1.2pp YoY
+0.8pp QoQ
+2.9pp 26.4% 41.6% 31.3% 64%
Consumer 1.2%
0.0pp YoY
0.0pp QoQ
-3.5pp 4.7% 4.8% 5.0% 50%

Capital

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (KY) National Avg Tier Percentile
CET1 Ratio 12.1%
+0.3pp YoY
+0.1pp QoQ
-3.5pp 15.6% 20.2% 19.7% 26%
Leverage Ratio 9.9%
0.0pp YoY
-0.1pp QoQ
-1.4pp 11.3% 14.0% 12.6% 33%
Total Capital Ratio 13.1%
+0.3pp YoY
+0.1pp QoQ
-3.6pp 16.7% 21.3% 20.8% 24%

Efficiency & Staffing

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (KY) National Avg Tier Percentile
Full-Time Employees 303
+23 (+8.2%) YoY
+9 (+3.1%) QoQ
-11 313 105 482 66%
Assets per Employee ($) $7.5M
+2.7% YoY
+1.1% QoQ
-$3.0M $10.5M $6.3M $8.8M 30%
Branch Count 27
+1 (+3.8%) YoY
0 QoQ
+7 20 8 18 78%

Asset Quality

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (KY) National Avg Tier Percentile
Past Due 90+ Days n/a n/a 0.2% 0.3% 0.4% n/a
Nonaccrual 0.3%
0.0pp YoY
-0.1pp QoQ
-0.5pp 0.8% 0.8% 1.0% 32%
Allowance Coverage 3.31x
+11.6% YoY
+27.9% QoQ
-15.40x 18.71x 7.45x 20.23x 67%
Net Charge-off Rate (YTD) 0.0%
0.0pp YoY
0.0pp QoQ
-0.3pp 0.3% 0.1% 0.2% 24%

Profitability

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (KY) National Avg Tier Percentile
ROE 15.4%
+1.7pp YoY
+0.6pp QoQ
+2.8pp 12.6% 13.3% 11.6% 76%
Cost of Funds (YTD) 2.1%
-0.2pp YoY
0.0pp QoQ
+0.2pp 1.9% 1.7% 1.7% 63%
Net Income ($, YTD) $15.3M
+26.9% YoY
— QoQ
-$4.0M $19.2M $5.1M $40.4M 61%

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 (0 metrics)

No strength rankings available

Top Weaknesses (0 metrics)

No weakness rankings available
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