TellerScore

Side-by-side · Q2 2026 data

Reliance State Bank vs Farmers and Merchants State Bank

Bank

Reliance State Bank

Story City, Iowa · $100 million – $1 billion

43of 100
Below average

Bank

Farmers and Merchants State Bank

Winterset, Iowa · $100 million – $1 billion

78of 100
Strong

Metric by metric

MeasureReliance State BankFarmers and Merchants State Bank
TellerScore4378 (stronger)
Capital cushion4757 (stronger)
Loan quality2100 (stronger)
Earnings5368 (stronger)
Funding & liquidity7480 (stronger)
Problem-loan coverage64100 (stronger)
Peer percentile3rd72nd
Total assets$276.8M$271.7M
Deposits / shares$234.7M$241.1M
Capital ratio9.72%10.68% (stronger)
Problem loans2.95%0.00% (stronger)
Net charge-offs0.23%0.03% (stronger)
Return on assets0.82%1.20% (stronger)
Loans ÷ deposits80.4%68.2% (stronger)
Uninsured deposits20.3% (stronger)26.3%
Offices24
CFPB complaints (3 yrs)——
Complaints per $1B deposits——
Mortgage denial rate (HMDA)7.0%1.5%

Farmers and Merchants State Bank has the higher TellerScore (78 vs 43). On the 7 directional measures above (where higher or lower is clearly better), Reliance State Bank leads on 1 and Farmers and Merchants State Bank on 6. Deposits are insured up to $250,000 per depositor, per ownership category, at both.

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