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State benchmarks · Q2 2026

Florida bank benchmarks, Q2 2026

Data from FFIEC call reports for the quarter ending June 30, 2026. Published September 20, 2026.

Short version: 82 banks are headquartered in Florida, holding $346.54 billion in total assets between them as of June 30, 2026. The median one holds $671M. The median Florida bank earned 1.03% on its assets against 1.23% for the median US bank, on a margin of 3.71% against 3.83%.

How many banks are headquartered in Florida?

82 banks filed an FFIEC call report for the quarter ending June 30, 2026 with a head office in Florida. Between them they reported $346.54 billion in total assets. That is a count of charters headquartered there, which is not the same as a count of banks operating there: a bank chartered in a neighboring state with branches across this one is counted in the state its head office sits in, and its whole balance sheet goes with it.

Non-insured non-deposit trust companies are left out of every figure on this page. They hold a charter and file a report, but they take no deposits and make no loans, so a funding cost or a margin computed for one of them is a ratio over an empty denominator. The same exclusion is applied to the national medians, so the two columns below are measured on the same basis.

Florida bank benchmarks against the national median

Each figure is the median across banks headquartered in Florida, beside the median across every bank in the country that filed for the same quarter. The gap is in percentage points.

Metric Florida US median Gap  
Return on assetsNet income as a share of average assets. The summary number. 1.03% 1.23% −0.20 pp Worse than the US median
Net interest marginNet interest income over average earning assets: the spread business. 3.71% 3.83% −0.12 pp Worse than the US median
Efficiency ratioNoninterest expense per dollar of revenue. Lower is leaner. 63.00% 61.81% +1.19 pp In line
Cost of fundsInterest expense over interest-bearing liabilities: what the money costs. 2.86% 2.34% +0.52 pp Worse than the US median
Loans to depositsHow much of the deposit base is lent out rather than held in securities. 75.45% 80.16% −4.71 pp Lower
Tier 1 leverage ratioTier 1 capital over average assets, with no risk weights applied. 10.29% 10.96% −0.67 pp Lower

Source: FFIEC call reports for the quarter ending June 30, 2026. Florida medians are computed across all 82 banks headquartered there, at every size. National medians are computed across every filing bank, matching the figures published in the BankingLens benchmark articles for the same quarter.

What the numbers say

The median bank in Florida pays 52 basis points more for its money than the median US bank, 2.86% against 2.34%, and earns 12 basis points less on the spread, 3.71% against 3.83%. Dearer funding and a narrower margin is the squeeze from both ends, and it is the combination that shows up first when a market is being competed for on rate.

On the expense side it runs an efficiency ratio of 63.00, level with the national 61.81, and return on assets still comes in at 1.03% against 1.23%.

The median Florida bank lends out 75.45% of its deposits against 80.16% nationally, so more of what it takes in sits in securities rather than loans, and carries tier 1 leverage capital of 10.29% against 10.96%, a thinner cushion than the median US bank. Neither of those has a good direction on its own. A high loan-to-deposit ratio means a bank is putting its funding to work, and also that it has less room left before it has to buy more; capital beyond what a bank needs to absorb its own losses earns very little.

Banking in Florida is moderately concentrated. The largest charter headquartered there, Southstate Bank of Winter Haven, FL, holds 19.9% of the state's bank assets, and the five largest hold 64.9% between them. The median bank holds $671M.

The largest banks headquartered in Florida

The 10 largest by total assets, of 82. 10 of them have a page here carrying the rest of the call report picture.

# Bank City Assets ROA NIM
1 Southstate Bank Winter Haven $68.8B 1.42% 3.81%
2 Everbank Jacksonville $46.7B 1.01% 2.69%
3 Raymond James Bank Saint Petersburg $45.6B 1.68% 3.19%
4 BankUnited Miami Lakes $34.9B 0.87% 3.05%
5 City National Bank of Florida Miami $29.1B 1.24% 2.94%
6 Seacoast National Bank Stuart $21.3B 0.88% 3.79%
7 Amerant Bank Coral Gables $10.3B 0.90% 3.52%
8 Ocean Bank Miami $7.6B 1.08% 3.43%
9 Bradesco Bank Coral Gables $6.1B 1.02% 2.90%
10 Banesco USA Miami $6.0B 1.47% 3.50%

Methodology

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A state is a market. A peer group is a comparison.

The medians above tell you what Florida looks like. They do not tell you whether your bank is good for its size and charter, which is the question an examiner and a board actually ask. Bank Peer Intel puts every one of these figures against the FFIEC peer group your bank is measured in - percentile rank on each metric, fourteen quarters of trend, and the flags an examiner reaches for first.

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