2025 Top-Performing Banks

Each of the top-performing banks with more than $50 billion of assets used their own mix of revenue streams to drive performance.

Big banks with the strongest financial performance varied in asset size, geographies and services.

Among banks with between $10 billion and $50 billion of assets, those that targeted narrow lending markets rose to the top.

Growing loans was a tall order in 2024, but banks that could do just that were able to outperform their peers.

Seven of the 20 top-performing banks with $2 billion to $10 billion of assets last year were based in Texas. But it's not about being bigger.

Banks that kept a lid on their cost of funds managed to outperform their peers, illustrating the fact that 2024 was a defensive year for the industry.

Community banks that could reel in cheap deposits while keeping a lid on expenses were able to outperform peers in 2024.

How Capital Performance Group conducted its rankings analysis.