TellerScore

Side-by-side · Q2 2026 data

Farmers and Merchants State Bank vs Serve Credit Union

Bank

Farmers and Merchants State Bank

Winterset, Iowa · $100 million – $1 billion

78of 100
Strong

Credit union

Serve Credit Union

Des Moines, Iowa · $100 million – $1 billion

84of 100
Strong

Metric by metric

MeasureFarmers and Merchants State BankServe Credit Union
TellerScore7884 (stronger)
Capital cushion57100 (stronger)
Loan quality100 (stronger)73
Earnings6878 (stronger)
Funding & liquidity80 (stronger)73
Problem-loan coverage100 (stronger)94
Peer percentile72nd86th
Total assets$271.7M$101.3M
Deposits / shares$241.1M$82.2M
Capital ratio10.68%18.08% (stronger)
Problem loans0.00% (stronger)0.81%
Net charge-offs0.03% (stronger)0.21%
Return on assets1.20%1.44% (stronger)
Loans ÷ deposits68.2% (stronger)87.2%
Uninsured deposits26.3%2.6% (stronger)
Offices41
CFPB complaints (3 yrs)——
Complaints per $1B deposits——
Mortgage denial rate (HMDA)1.5%12.1%

Serve Credit Union has the higher TellerScore (84 vs 78). On the 7 directional measures above (where higher or lower is clearly better), Farmers and Merchants State Bank leads on 3 and Serve Credit Union on 4. Deposits are insured up to $250,000 per depositor, per ownership category, at both.

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