TellerScore

Side-by-side · Q2 2026 data

Merchants and Farmers Bank vs The Citizens Bank

Bank

Merchants and Farmers Bank

Dumas, Arkansas · $100 million – $1 billion

50of 100
Below average

Bank

The Citizens Bank

Batesville, Arkansas · $1 billion – $10 billion

70of 100
Strong

Metric by metric

MeasureMerchants and Farmers BankThe Citizens Bank
TellerScore5070 (stronger)
Capital cushion57 (stronger)39
Loan quality2088 (stronger)
Earnings6982 (stronger)
Funding & liquidity5067 (stronger)
Problem-loan coverage6594 (stronger)
Peer percentile7th58th
Total assets$297.6M$1.6B
Deposits / shares$255.9M$1.5B
Capital ratio10.74% (stronger)8.87%
Problem loans2.40%0.37% (stronger)
Net charge-offs0.11%0.08% (stronger)
Return on assets1.22%1.55% (stronger)
Loans ÷ deposits90.3%85.2% (stronger)
Uninsured deposits32.5%22.8% (stronger)
Offices316
CFPB complaints (3 yrs)——
Complaints per $1B deposits——
Mortgage denial rate (HMDA)13.9%13.3%

The Citizens Bank has the higher TellerScore (70 vs 50). On the 7 directional measures above (where higher or lower is clearly better), Merchants and Farmers Bank leads on 1 and The Citizens Bank on 6. They differ a lot in size, so ratios such as capital and liquidity are naturally different — the peer percentile shows how each compares with institutions its own size. Deposits are insured up to $250,000 per depositor, per ownership category, at both.

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