TellerScore

Side-by-side · Q2 2026 data

Merced School Employees Federal Credit Union vs Valley First Federal Credit Union

Credit union

Merced School Employees Federal Credit Union

Merced, California · $100 million – $1 billion

81of 100
Strong

Credit union

Valley First Federal Credit Union

Modesto, California · $1 billion – $10 billion

62of 100
Moderate

Metric by metric

MeasureMerced School Employees Federal Credit UnionValley First Federal Credit Union
TellerScore81 (stronger)62
Capital cushion68 (stronger)48
Loan quality85 (stronger)76
Earnings75 (stronger)43
Funding & liquidity100 (stronger)71
Problem-loan coverage97 (stronger)89
Peer percentile80th30th
Total assets$899.0M$1.1B
Deposits / shares$797.0M$925.8M
Capital ratio11.76% (stronger)9.81%
Problem loans0.44% (stronger)0.71%
Net charge-offs0.61% (stronger)1.07%
Return on assets1.37% (stronger)0.57%
Loans ÷ deposits38.4% (stronger)89.7%
Uninsured deposits5.4% (stronger)5.6%
Offices87
CFPB complaints (3 yrs)——
Complaints per $1B deposits——
Mortgage denial rate (HMDA)8.9%—

Merced School Employees Federal Credit Union has the higher TellerScore (81 vs 62). On the 7 directional measures above (where higher or lower is clearly better), Merced School Employees Federal Credit Union leads on 7 and Valley First Federal Credit Union on 0. Deposits are insured up to $250,000 per depositor, per ownership category, at both.

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