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Merchants Bank, National Association

$1B-$10B Specialty: Commercial MN FDIC cert 8866

Designations: ✓ Community bank

Winona, MN

22 branches across MN · 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 17 in MN.
  • Deposits +3.7% year over year ($2.5B on the books).
  • Delinquency rate 0.54%.
  • Return on assets 1.23%.
  • Efficiency ratio 63.53% vs a 59.73% peer average.
  • Loan-to-deposit ratio 81.50% vs a 85.04% peer average.

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885 banks in the $1B-$10B peer group nationally 17 in MN
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Merchants Bank, National Association has 1 strength 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

  • + Delinquency Rate 0.33% below tier average

Key Concerns

Areas that may need attention

  • - ROA 0.16% below tier average
  • - Net Interest Margin 0.22% below tier average
  • - Efficiency Ratio 3.81% above tier average

Core Metrics

As of 2026-Q2

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (MN) National Avg Tier Percentile
Total Assets ? $2.9B
+4.1% YoY -1.7% QoQ
+$88.5M $2.8B
-0.6% YoY
$524.5M
+5.8% YoY
$6.3B
+7.7% YoY
68%
Total Loans ? $2.0B
-1.4% YoY +1.2% QoQ
+$73.0M $2.0B
-0.3% YoY
$300.2M
+7.3% YoY
$3.2B
+9.4% YoY
68%
Total Deposits ? $2.5B
+3.7% YoY -2.2% QoQ
+$179.5M $2.3B
-0.5% YoY
$452.1M
+5.5% YoY
$4.9B
+7.3% YoY
70%
Return on Assets ? 1.23%
+10.7% YoY +0.9% QoQ
-0.16% 1.39%
+17.0% YoY
1.26%
+17.2% YoY
1.30%
+12.1% YoY
48%
Net Interest Margin ? 3.65%
+11.5% YoY +2.8% QoQ
-0.22% 3.87%
+6.2% YoY
4.00%
+6.8% YoY
3.95%
+4.9% YoY
46%
Efficiency Ratio ? 63.53%
-6.4% YoY +1.7% QoQ
+3.81% 59.73%
-12.6% YoY
63.00%
-3.5% YoY
70.05%
+2.5% YoY
36%
Delinquency Rate ? 0.54%
-31.8% YoY -41.6% QoQ
-0.33% 0.87%
+11.7% YoY
1.01%
+19.3% YoY
0.98%
+16.3% YoY
49%
Loan-to-Deposit Ratio ? 81.50%
-5.0% YoY +3.5% QoQ
-3.53% 85.04%
-0.1% YoY
78.29%
-0.6% YoY
79.03%
+2.3% YoY
64%
Non-Interest-Bearing Deposit Share ? 18.27%
-3.5% YoY +3.6% QoQ
-3.00% 21.27%
-1.5% YoY
21.79%
+0.9% YoY
21.98%
-0.6% YoY
42%
Nonperforming Asset Ratio ? 0.41%
-45.0% YoY -37.8% QoQ
-0.26% 0.67%
+11.7% YoY
0.76%
+16.9% YoY
0.69%
+15.8% YoY
50%
Tier 1 Capital Ratio ? 13.46%
+8.8% YoY +1.3% QoQ
-1.38% 14.84%
-0.4% YoY
15.35%
-0.4% YoY
17.09%
+0.8% YoY
56%
Non-Interest Income / Assets ? 0.59%
+0.9% YoY +120.5% QoQ
+0.07% 0.53%
+2.5% YoY
0.31%
+3.9% YoY
0.66%
+5.2% YoY
Top 14.5% in tier

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 (MN) National Avg Tier Percentile
Noninterest-Bearing 18.3%
-0.7pp YoY
+0.6pp QoQ
-3.1pp 21.4% 21.9% 22.2% 42%
Brokered Deposits n/a n/a 9.5% 8.3% 8.5% n/a

Loan Composition

% of total loans & leases

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (MN) National Avg Tier Percentile
C&I 16.2%
-2.8pp YoY
+0.2pp QoQ
+2.2pp 14.0% 14.6% 12.5% 71%
CRE 48.1%
+1.3pp YoY
-0.9pp QoQ
-1.9pp 50.0% 36.5% 41.4% 45%
1-4 Family 23.0%
+1.8pp YoY
+0.7pp QoQ
-3.4pp 26.4% 29.4% 31.3% 50%
Consumer 1.7%
-0.2pp YoY
0.0pp QoQ
-3.0pp 4.7% 4.5% 5.0% 59%

Capital

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (MN) National Avg Tier Percentile
CET1 Ratio 13.5%
+1.1pp YoY
+0.2pp QoQ
-2.1pp 15.6% 16.5% 19.7% 49%
Leverage Ratio 11.5%
+0.4pp YoY
+0.2pp QoQ
+0.2pp 11.3% 11.0% 12.6% 69%
Total Capital Ratio 14.6%
+1.0pp YoY
+0.2pp QoQ
-2.1pp 16.7% 17.6% 20.8% 48%

Efficiency & Staffing

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (MN) National Avg Tier Percentile
Full-Time Employees 385
+7 (+1.9%) YoY
+9 (+2.4%) QoQ
+71 313 55 482 77%
Assets per Employee ($) $7.5M
+2.2% YoY
-4.0% QoQ
-$3.0M $10.5M $8.6M $8.8M 31%
Branch Count 22
0 YoY
0 QoQ
+2 20 4 18 70%

Asset Quality

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (MN) National Avg Tier Percentile
Past Due 90+ Days 0.0%
0.0pp YoY
-0.1pp QoQ
-0.2pp 0.2% 0.4% 0.4% 22%
Nonaccrual 0.5%
-0.2pp YoY
-0.3pp QoQ
-0.3pp 0.8% 1.0% 1.0% 52%
Allowance Coverage 2.37x
+39.9% YoY
+65.0% QoQ
-16.34x 18.71x 20.41x 20.23x 55%
Net Charge-off Rate (YTD) 0.1%
0.0pp YoY
0.0pp QoQ
-0.2pp 0.3% 0.2% 0.2% 56%

Profitability

Metric Current vs Tier Tier Avg State Avg (MN) National Avg Tier Percentile
ROE 10.5%
+0.6pp YoY
0.0pp QoQ
-2.1pp 12.6% 13.1% 11.6% 38%
Cost of Funds (YTD) 1.7%
-0.4pp YoY
0.0pp QoQ
-0.2pp 1.9% 1.7% 1.7% 35%
Net Income ($, YTD) $17.9M
+15.4% YoY
— QoQ
-$1.3M $19.2M $4.5M $40.4M 66%

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 (1 metrics)

129
Non-Interest Income / Assets
revenue_mix
Value: 0.59%
Peer Median: 0.53%
#129 of 885 Top 14.5% in $1B-$10B

Top Weaknesses (0 metrics)

No weakness rankings available
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