2025 Top-Performing Banks

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

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

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

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

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.