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The Ephrata National Bank

$1B-$10B Specialty: Other PA FDIC cert 7493

Designations: ✓ Community bank

Ephrata, PA

23 branches across PA · MD

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 37 in PA.
  • Deposits +6.7% year over year ($2.0B on the books).
  • Delinquency rate 0.55%.
  • Return on assets 1.01%.
  • Efficiency ratio 70.94% vs a 59.73% peer average.
  • Loan-to-deposit ratio 81.79% vs a 85.04% peer average.

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885 banks in the $1B-$10B peer group nationally 37 in PA
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The Ephrata National Bank has 2 strengths but faces 3 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

  • + Non-Interest-Bearing Deposit Share 13.98% above tier average
  • + Delinquency Rate 0.32% below tier average

Key Concerns

Areas that may need attention

  • - Cost Spiral: Bottom 58.1% in tier
  • - ROA 0.38% below tier average
  • - Net Interest Margin 0.11% below tier average

Core Metrics

As of 2026-Q2

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (PA) National Avg Tier Percentile
Total Assets ? $2.4B
+7.5% YoY -1.4% QoQ
-$403.3M $2.8B
-0.6% YoY
$3.1B
+7.3% YoY
$6.3B
+7.7% YoY
60%
Total Loans ? $1.7B
+14.2% YoY +1.5% QoQ
-$308.2M $2.0B
-0.3% YoY
$2.3B
+8.0% YoY
$3.2B
+9.4% YoY
58%
Total Deposits ? $2.0B
+6.7% YoY -2.4% QoQ
-$295.3M $2.3B
-0.5% YoY
$2.6B
+7.1% YoY
$4.9B
+7.3% YoY
60%
Return on Assets ? 1.01%
+2.1% YoY +10.9% QoQ
-0.38% 1.39%
+17.0% YoY
1.63%
+26.6% YoY
1.30%
+12.1% YoY
31%
Net Interest Margin ? 3.76%
+16.0% YoY +3.7% QoQ
-0.11% 3.87%
+6.2% YoY
3.40%
+8.7% YoY
3.95%
+4.9% YoY
53%
Efficiency Ratio ? 70.94%
+7.6% YoY -1.9% QoQ
+11.22% 59.73%
-12.6% YoY
66.68%
-6.6% YoY
70.05%
+2.5% YoY
19%
Delinquency Rate ? 0.55%
-23.0% YoY -35.6% QoQ
-0.32% 0.87%
+11.7% YoY
0.92%
+32.0% YoY
0.98%
+16.3% YoY
49%
Loan-to-Deposit Ratio ? 81.79%
+7.1% YoY +4.1% QoQ
-3.24% 85.04%
-0.1% YoY
84.75%
+0.9% YoY
79.03%
+2.3% YoY
64%
Non-Interest-Bearing Deposit Share ? 35.25%
+6.3% YoY +4.5% QoQ
+13.98% 21.27%
-1.5% YoY
18.04%
+1.4% YoY
21.98%
-0.6% YoY
Top 8.2% in tier
Nonperforming Asset Ratio ? 0.41%
-19.1% YoY -28.2% QoQ
-0.26% 0.67%
+11.7% YoY
0.67%
+21.3% YoY
0.69%
+15.8% YoY
50%
Tier 1 Capital Ratio ? 13.24%
-2.7% YoY +1.6% QoQ
-1.61% 14.84%
-0.4% YoY
19.93%
+0.1% YoY
17.09%
+0.8% YoY
52%
Non-Interest Income / Assets ? 0.35%
-8.9% YoY +95.8% QoQ
-0.18% 0.53%
+2.5% YoY
1.47%
+21.0% YoY
0.66%
+5.2% YoY
62%

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 (PA) National Avg Tier Percentile
Noninterest-Bearing 35.3%
+2.1pp YoY
+1.5pp QoQ
+13.9pp 21.4% 18.7% 22.2% 92%
Brokered Deposits 0.2%
-4.9pp YoY
-3.1pp QoQ
-9.3pp 9.5% 6.8% 8.5% 7%

Loan Composition

% of total loans & leases

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (PA) National Avg Tier Percentile
C&I 7.7%
+1.4pp YoY
-0.2pp QoQ
-6.3pp 14.0% 8.6% 12.5% 32%
CRE 26.0%
+0.4pp YoY
+2.1pp QoQ
-24.1pp 50.0% 37.9% 41.4% 9%
1-4 Family 42.1%
-4.7pp YoY
-0.6pp QoQ
+15.6pp 26.4% 47.8% 31.3% 84%
Consumer 4.6%
+4.1pp YoY
-0.6pp QoQ
-0.1pp 4.7% 3.8% 5.0% 80%

Capital

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (PA) National Avg Tier Percentile
CET1 Ratio 13.2%
-0.4pp YoY
+0.2pp QoQ
-2.4pp 15.6% 22.3% 19.7% 45%
Leverage Ratio 9.6%
+0.3pp YoY
+0.1pp QoQ
-1.7pp 11.3% 13.2% 12.6% 26%
Total Capital Ratio 14.3%
-0.4pp YoY
+0.1pp QoQ
-2.4pp 16.7% 23.3% 20.8% 44%

Efficiency & Staffing

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (PA) National Avg Tier Percentile
Full-Time Employees 355
+30 (+9.2%) YoY
+3 (+0.9%) QoQ
+41 313 299 482 73%
Assets per Employee ($) $6.7M
-1.6% YoY
-2.2% QoQ
-$3.7M $10.5M $9.2M $8.8M 21%
Branch Count 23
+4 (+21.1%) YoY
0 QoQ
+3 20 20 18 72%

Asset Quality

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (PA) National Avg Tier Percentile
Past Due 90+ Days n/a n/a 0.2% 0.2% 0.4% n/a
Nonaccrual 0.5%
-0.2pp YoY
-0.3pp QoQ
-0.3pp 0.8% 0.9% 1.0% 52%
Allowance Coverage 2.04x
+26.8% YoY
+48.6% QoQ
-16.67x 18.71x 3.63x 20.23x 50%
Net Charge-off Rate (YTD) 0.0%
0.0pp YoY
0.0pp QoQ
-0.2pp 0.3% 0.1% 0.2% 48%

Profitability

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (PA) National Avg Tier Percentile
ROE 11.2%
-1.7pp YoY
+0.9pp QoQ
-1.4pp 12.6% 10.2% 11.6% 42%
Cost of Funds (YTD) 1.4%
-0.3pp YoY
0.0pp QoQ
-0.5pp 1.9% 1.8% 1.7% 17%
Net Income ($, YTD) $11.9M
+8.3% YoY
— QoQ
-$7.3M $19.2M $18.2M $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)

Cost Spiral

risk
#19 of 31 • Bottom 58.1% in tier

Historically lean operator (efficiency < 75%) now seeing 5+ point efficiency ratio increase YoY despite strong profitability. Efficiency advantage eroding.

Why this signature
Efficiency Ratio: 70.94%
(Tier: 59.73%, National: 70.05%)
worse than tier avg
31 of 31 Mid-Market banks match · 184 nationally
→ Stable +9 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 (1 metrics)

74
Non-Interest-Bearing Deposit Share
funding
Value: 35.25%
Peer Median: 21.27%
#74 of 885 Top 8.2% in $1B-$10B

Top Weaknesses (1 metrics)

718
Efficiency Ratio
profitability
Value: 70.94%
Peer Median: 59.73%
#718 of 885 Bottom 19.0% in $1B-$10B
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