TellerScore

Side-by-side · Q2 2026 data

1st Financial Bank USA vs BankWest, Inc.

Bank

1st Financial Bank USA

Dakota Dunes, South Dakota · $1 billion – $10 billion

74of 100
Strong

Bank

BankWest, Inc.

Pierre, South Dakota · $1 billion – $10 billion

38of 100
Low

Metric by metric

Measure1st Financial Bank USABankWest, Inc.
TellerScore74 (stronger)38
Capital cushion100 (stronger)42
Loan quality50 (stronger)8
Earnings59 (stronger)48
Funding & liquidity72 (stronger)57
Problem-loan coverage87 (stronger)52
Peer percentile74th1st
Total assets$1.4B$1.9B
Deposits / shares$1.1B$1.6B
Capital ratio16.34% (stronger)9.21%
Problem loans1.51% (stronger)2.76%
Net charge-offs2.29%-0.03% (stronger)
Return on assets0.98% (stronger)0.69%
Loans ÷ deposits88.7%84.7% (stronger)
Uninsured deposits2.0% (stronger)31.7%
Offices220
CFPB complaints (3 yrs)——
Complaints per $1B deposits——
Mortgage denial rate (HMDA)—48.6%

1st Financial Bank USA has the higher TellerScore (74 vs 38). On the 7 directional measures above (where higher or lower is clearly better), 1st Financial Bank USA leads on 5 and BankWest, Inc. on 2. Deposits are insured up to $250,000 per depositor, per ownership category, at both.

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