TellerScore

Side-by-side · Q2 2026 data

Farmers & Merchants Bank vs North State Bank

Bank

Farmers & Merchants Bank

Granite Quarry, North Carolina · $100 million – $1 billion

90of 100
Very strong

Bank

North State Bank

Raleigh, North Carolina · $1 billion – $10 billion

61of 100
Moderate

Metric by metric

MeasureFarmers & Merchants BankNorth State Bank
TellerScore90 (stronger)61
Capital cushion100 (stronger)35
Loan quality7494 (stronger)
Earnings100 (stronger)52
Funding & liquidity83 (stronger)49
Problem-loan coverage9597 (stronger)
Peer percentile95th24th
Total assets$998.8M$1.5B
Deposits / shares$842.6M$1.2B
Capital ratio15.25% (stronger)8.50%
Problem loans0.79%0.17% (stronger)
Net charge-offs-0.28% (stronger)-0.03%
Return on assets2.55% (stronger)0.79%
Loans ÷ deposits63.0% (stronger)94.2%
Uninsured deposits27.7% (stronger)30.9%
Offices127
CFPB complaints (3 yrs)——
Complaints per $1B deposits——
Mortgage denial rate (HMDA)7.8%2.5%

Farmers & Merchants Bank has the higher TellerScore (90 vs 61). On the 7 directional measures above (where higher or lower is clearly better), Farmers & Merchants Bank leads on 6 and North State Bank on 1. Deposits are insured up to $250,000 per depositor, per ownership category, at both.

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