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Sterling Federal Bank, Federal Savings Bank: Vital Signs

Data as of · Call Report Schedules RC, RC-N, RC-R and RI How we update

The headline measure from each supervisory category on one page: capital adequacy, asset quality, earnings and liquidity, the same four corners a CAMELS examiner works through.

Return on equity dropped 54.70 percentage points in Q2 2026, from -2.25% to -56.95%. It was the largest change from Q1 2026 among the key lines here. Sterling Federal Bank, Federal Savings Bank has the 1st lowest return on assets of the 323 banks headquartered in Illinois, at -4.26% as of Q2 2026. Sterling Federal Bank, Federal Savings Bank's return on assets of -4.26% is well below the 1.25% median for banks in the $100M-1B asset tier, a gap of 5.51 points (Q2 2026).

Capital adequacy

Capital adequacy for Sterling Federal Bank, Federal Savings Bank, Q2 2026
Line item Q2 2026
CET1 capital ratio 10.61%
Tier 1 risk-based capital ratio 10.61%
Total risk-based capital ratio 11.80%
Tier 1 leverage ratio 7.67%
Equity capital to assets 7.24%
Tangible equity to tangible assets 6.47%

Asset quality

Asset quality for Sterling Federal Bank, Federal Savings Bank, Q2 2026
Line item Q2 2026
Non-performing loans to loans 8.21%
Non-performing assets ratio 5.88%
Net charge-off ratio 5.21%
Texas ratio 69.06%
Allowance for credit losses to loans 2.99%
Reserve coverage of non-performing loans 36.36%

Earnings

Earnings for Sterling Federal Bank, Federal Savings Bank, Q2 2026
Line item Q2 2026
Return on assets -4.26%
Return on equity -56.95%
Net interest margin 3.59%
Efficiency ratio 85.50%
Yield on earning assets 5.10%
Cost of funds 1.61%

Liquidity and funding

Liquidity and funding for Sterling Federal Bank, Federal Savings Bank, Q2 2026
Line item Q2 2026
Loan-to-deposit ratio 83.79%
Core deposits to total deposits 91.72%
Brokered deposits to total deposits 1.35%
Deposits to assets 83.76%
Securities to assets 18.82%

Vital Signs trend

Last 12 quarters as filed. Every value plotted here also appears in the tables above.

Capital ratios
Profitability
Asset quality

Vital Signs by quarter

Values plotted above, Sterling Federal Bank, Federal Savings Bank, oldest first
Quarter CET1Tier 1 RBCTotal RBCTier 1 leverageROA
Q3 2023 12.55% 12.55% 13.31% 8.90% 0.15%
Q4 2023 12.21% 12.21% 13.08% 8.86% 0.33%
Q1 2024 11.51% 11.51% 12.54% 8.44% -0.36%
Q2 2024 11.37% 11.37% 12.49% 8.47% 0.32%
Q3 2024 11.05% 11.05% 12.22% 8.22% 0.03%
Q4 2024 10.89% 10.89% 12.14% 7.92% -0.42%
Q1 2025 10.95% 10.95% 12.20% 8.11% 0.09%
Q2 2025 11.39% 11.39% 12.49% 8.27% 0.26%
Q3 2025 11.48% 11.48% 12.58% 8.64% 0.07%
Q4 2025 11.80% 11.80% 12.99% 8.73% 0.32%
Q1 2026 11.84% 11.84% 13.02% 8.62% -0.18%
Q2 2026 10.61% 10.61% 11.80% 7.67% -4.26%

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Source: Call Report Schedules RC, RC-N, RC-R and RI, as filed with the FFIEC and standardized by BankRegReports. Dollar amounts are as reported, point-in-time; income statement items are year-to-date through the report date. See the full Sterling Federal Bank, Federal Savings Bank profile, peer group comparison, or how this data updates.

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