Like the top-performing big banks, the best performers among community banks got there by doing the basics well. In particular, many of them were able to attract low-cost deposits, and, because of geography or policy, focused their lending on healthy economic sectors, according to Vanessa Mambrino of Capital Performance Group, Washington, D.C., who put together the rankings and analysis.

It’s not that the conditions in the financial markets and the economy didn’t present major challenges to community banks, but the best were able to overcome the obstacles and the entire sector on average remained profitable in 2008.

IN THIS SPECIAL REPORT, you can…

Read the June issue print article analyzing the performance of the top banks and thrifts under $3 billion in assets.(pdf)

• View the rankings of the top 100 community banks and thrifts by ROE on a CONSOLIDATED basis in four categories:   

Non SubS banks and thrifts under $100 million in assets (xls file)

Non SubS banks and thrifts between $100 million and $3 billion in assets (xls)

S corp banks and thrifts under $100 million in assets (xls)

S corp banks and thrifts between $100 million and $3 billion in assets (xls)

Summary Statistics (xls)

• View the rankings of the top 100 community banks and thrifts by ROE on a CHARTER basis in four categories:

Non SubS banks and thrifts under $100 million in assets (xls)

Non SubS banks and thrifts between $100 million and $3 billion in assets (xls)

S corp banks and thrifts under $100 million in assets (xls)

S corp banks and thrifts between $100 million and $3 billion in assets (xls)

Summary Statistics (xls)

View mini profiles of four of the top-ranked banks (pdf)

Ranking Methodology

[This report was posted on June 4, 2009 on the website of ABA Banking Journal, www.ababj.com, and is copyright 2009 by the American Bankers Association.]  

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