TellerScore

Side-by-side · Q2 2026 data

Merchants and Farmers Bank vs Peoples Bank

Bank

Merchants and Farmers Bank

Dumas, Arkansas · $100 million – $1 billion

50of 100
Below average

Bank

Peoples Bank

Sheridan, Arkansas · $100 million – $1 billion

90of 100
Very strong

Metric by metric

MeasureMerchants and Farmers BankPeoples Bank
TellerScore5090 (stronger)
Capital cushion5783 (stronger)
Loan quality2099 (stronger)
Earnings6993 (stronger)
Funding & liquidity5079 (stronger)
Problem-loan coverage65100 (stronger)
Peer percentile7th95th
Total assets$297.6M$313.8M
Deposits / shares$255.9M$272.1M
Capital ratio10.74%13.33% (stronger)
Problem loans2.40%0.03% (stronger)
Net charge-offs0.11%-0.00% (stronger)
Return on assets1.22%1.82% (stronger)
Loans ÷ deposits90.3%60.7% (stronger)
Uninsured deposits32.5% (stronger)33.9%
Offices33
CFPB complaints (3 yrs)——
Complaints per $1B deposits——
Mortgage denial rate (HMDA)13.9%—

Peoples Bank has the higher TellerScore (90 vs 50). On the 7 directional measures above (where higher or lower is clearly better), Merchants and Farmers Bank leads on 1 and Peoples Bank on 6. Deposits are insured up to $250,000 per depositor, per ownership category, at both.

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