TellerScore

Side-by-side · Q2 2026 data

Merchants State Bank vs Reliabank Dakota

Bank

Merchants State Bank

Freeman, South Dakota · $100 million – $1 billion

91of 100
Very strong

Bank

Reliabank Dakota

Estelline, South Dakota · $100 million – $1 billion

71of 100
Strong

Metric by metric

MeasureMerchants State BankReliabank Dakota
TellerScore91 (stronger)71
Capital cushion100 (stronger)55
Loan quality8991 (stronger)
Earnings96 (stronger)75
Funding & liquidity67 (stronger)48
Problem-loan coverage97 (stronger)96
Peer percentile96th47th
Total assets$219.6M$788.4M
Deposits / shares$180.7M$663.6M
Capital ratio17.26% (stronger)10.49%
Problem loans0.32%0.26% (stronger)
Net charge-offs0.01% (stronger)0.03%
Return on assets1.90% (stronger)1.37%
Loans ÷ deposits81.1%79.1% (stronger)
Uninsured deposits25.8% (stronger)44.7%
Offices410
CFPB complaints (3 yrs)——
Complaints per $1B deposits——
Mortgage denial rate (HMDA)—7.4%

Merchants State Bank has the higher TellerScore (91 vs 71). On the 7 directional measures above (where higher or lower is clearly better), Merchants State Bank leads on 5 and Reliabank Dakota on 2. Deposits are insured up to $250,000 per depositor, per ownership category, at both.

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