TellerScore

Side-by-side · Q2 2026 data

Farmers & Merchants Bank vs The Fidelity Bank

Bank

Farmers & Merchants Bank

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

90of 100
Very strong

Bank

The Fidelity Bank

Fuquay Varina, North Carolina · $1 billion – $10 billion

78of 100
Strong

Metric by metric

MeasureFarmers & Merchants BankThe Fidelity Bank
TellerScore90 (stronger)78
Capital cushion100 (stronger)65
Loan quality7486 (stronger)
Earnings100 (stronger)89
Funding & liquidity83 (stronger)65
Problem-loan coverage95 (stronger)94
Peer percentile95th86th
Total assets$998.8M$4.7B
Deposits / shares$842.6M$4.2B
Capital ratio15.25% (stronger)11.47%
Problem loans0.79%0.42% (stronger)
Net charge-offs-0.28% (stronger)0.06%
Return on assets2.55% (stronger)1.73%
Loans ÷ deposits63.0% (stronger)69.2%
Uninsured deposits27.7% (stronger)38.2%
Offices1257
CFPB complaints (3 yrs)——
Complaints per $1B deposits——
Mortgage denial rate (HMDA)7.8%14.7%

Farmers & Merchants Bank has the higher TellerScore (90 vs 78). On the 7 directional measures above (where higher or lower is clearly better), Farmers & Merchants Bank leads on 6 and The Fidelity Bank on 1. Deposits are insured up to $250,000 per depositor, per ownership category, at both.

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