FDIC Cert #32718 · Miami, Florida · Est. 1989

Helm Bank USA - FDIC Bank Health Profile

A community-scale look at Helm Bank USA's own numbers, pulled straight from its quarterly FDIC Call Report.

$1.1B
Total assets
B
Health grade · Good
0.97%
Return on assets
29.1%
Tier 1 capital

Data updated July 2026

The verdict

Helm Bank USA earns a PlainBankData health grade of B (74/100), with well-capitalized at 29.14% Tier 1, 0.97% ROA, 70% efficiency ratio.

#934
largest of 4,313 FDIC banks by assets
78th
percentile by asset size, nationally
29.14%
Tier 1 ratio - above the 10% well-capitalized line
41st
percentile for profitability (ROA), nationally

The grade above reflects PlainBankData's own read of the bank's regulatory filings, not an FDIC judgment, deposit coverage stays at $250,000 per depositor, per category, unaffected by it.

FDIC Call Report plate

Cert 32718 · FL B · 74/100

GRADE-B · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · TIER1-WELL · TEXAS-CLEAN · ROA-PAR · SIZE-REGIONAL · BOOK-FULL

  • GRADE-B B (74/100)
  • MID-PACK #2600/4307
  • PHOTO-FINISH Eastern Bank · MA
  • TIER1-WELL 29.1% Tier 1
  • TEXAS-CLEAN 8.9% Texas
  • ROA-PAR 0.97% ROA
  • SIZE-REGIONAL $1–10B
  • BOOK-FULL 9/9 fields

Nearest health peer outside Florida: Eastern Bank, MA (±0 health pts)

Instrument codes from this bank’s FDIC Call Report sheet: grade band, health peer rank, photo-finish gap, Tier 1, Texas Ratio, ROA, size band, and book completeness. Not an official FDIC rating.

Health-score neighbourhood around Helm Bank USA

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest scored peers outside Florida, not a full FDIC corpus board reprint.

Morgan Stanley Bank,… · UT ·…100/100Dollar Bank, Federal… · PA ·…74/100Eastern Bank · MA · near74/100Helm Bank USA · FL · this ba…74/100Tustin Community Bank · CA ·…74/100United Midwest Savin… · OH ·…74/100Tioga-Franklin Savin… · PA ·…0/100
PlainBankData health composite · neighbourhood around Helm Bank USA · July 2026

Call Report read for Helm Bank USA in a high-failure state

Helm Bank USA (FDIC Cert #32718) carries a PlainBankData health grade of B at 74/100, built only from this bank's own Call Report Tier 1 capital, ROA, Texas Ratio, and efficiency inputs. On the scored corpus it sits at health rank #2,600 of 4,307. Tier 1 capital prints at 29.14%, clearing the 10% well-capitalized line. The Texas Ratio is 8.89%, inside the sub-50% band analysts treat as healthy. Return on assets is 0.97%. Balance-sheet scale is $1.1B, 934th of 4,313 FDIC-insured banks by assets. The nearest cross-state health peer is Eastern Bank (MA), tied on the composite. These are instrument codes from the Call Report sheet, not an official FDIC CAMELS rating, and insured deposits stay protected to $250,000 per depositor per ownership category regardless of grade. Compare the plate stamps against the score breakdown and the health-score neighbourhood before treating any single ratio as decisive.

State failure history around Helm Bank USA

76 FAILURE resolutions in Florida since 2000, heavy vs the state corpus

Helm Bank USA sits in one of the heavier post-2000 FAILURE states (76 resolutions; latest year 2020). The list below is state history from the Failed Bank List, not a claim about Helm Bank USA's current Call Report.

  • FIRST CITY BANK OF FLORIDA FORT WALTON BEACH, FL 2020 → UNITED FIDELITY BANK, FSB
  • FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CRESTVIEW CRESTVIEW, FL 2015 → FIRST NBC BANK
  • VALLEY BANK FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 2014 → LANDMARK BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

Source: FDIC Failed Bank List (resolution_type=FAILURE only; ASSISTANCE excluded). See the depositor failures guide and Florida banks.

How Helm Bank USA's 74/100 score adds up

Each factor is scored from this bank's own FDIC Call Report figures, then summed to the composite health score.

0/100100/100National avg77/10074/100
Helm Bank USA's composite health score
Tier 1 Capital Ratio (29.14%) 40/40
Return on Assets (ROA) (0.97%) 14/25
Texas Ratio (8.89%) 16/20
Efficiency Ratio (70.23%) 4/15

74 of 100 points earned across four weighted factors. See our methodology for the full scoring formula.

Balance sheet at a glance

Total Assets

$1.1B

Total balance-sheet footings

Total Deposits

$1.0B

Customer-funded liabilities

Net Loans

$632M

Outstanding loan book

Net Income

$11M

Bottom-line earnings

Capital adequacy vs federal thresholds

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% CET1 (≥6.5% req.) Tier 1 (≥8.0% req.) Total (≥10.0% req.) 27.74% 29.14% 30.54%
Basel III capital ratios - Helm Bank USA

Where Helm Bank USA ranks

Every one of the 4,307 FDIC-insured banks with a computed health score, bucketed by score. Helm Bank USA's score of 74/100 falls in the highlighted band.

Helm Bank USA: health score vs. every FDIC-insured bank

0-100 composite health score, FDIC Call Reports

74 40th percentile higher than 40% of 4,307 FDIC-insured banks

0–10: 3 FDIC-insured banks (0%). Below this entry. 10–20: 6 FDIC-insured banks (0%). Below this entry. 20–30: 26 FDIC-insured banks (1%). Below this entry. 30–40: 36 FDIC-insured banks (1%). Below this entry. 40–50: 98 FDIC-insured banks (2%). Below this entry. 50–60: 279 FDIC-insured banks (6%). Below this entry. 60–70: 777 FDIC-insured banks (18%). Below this entry. 70–80: 1,030 FDIC-insured banks (24%). This entry sits in this band. 80–90: 1,237 FDIC-insured banks (29%). Above this entry. 90–100: 815 FDIC-insured banks (19%). Above this entry. Helm Bank USA 0 100 every FDIC-insured bank with a health score, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more FDIC-insured banks. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source FDIC Call Reports · July 2026

Helm Bank USA's size among FDIC-insured banks

Every one of the 4,307 FDIC-insured banks with reported assets, bucketed by total-asset scale (note the buckets are powers of 10, most banks cluster in the $100M-$1B range). Helm Bank USA's $1.1B falls in the highlighted band.

Capital & credit buffers at Helm Bank USA

Tier 1 capital ratio
Well-capitalized 10%

29.14% of risk-weighted assets - above the federal "well-capitalized" threshold of 10%.

Tier 1 Capital Ratio
29.14%
Texas Ratio
8.89%
Equity Capital
$106M

What these ratios mean →

Profitability metrics: Helm Bank USA

Return on Assets (ROA)
41st percentile nationally
0.97%
Return on Equity (ROE)
10.65%
Efficiency Ratio
70.23%

What these mean →

Income & expense at Helm Bank USA

$55M
Interest Income
$5M
Non-Interest Income
$34M
Non-Interest Expense

Asset quality, Texas Ratio detail

The Texas Ratio compares troubled assets to the capital available to absorb losses. Helm Bank USA reports a Texas Ratio of 8.89% - comfortably in the healthy band; non-performing loans are a small fraction of the bank’s loss-absorbing capital.

Texas Ratio
Caution 50%

8.89% - lower is safer; 100% is the level at which troubled assets equal loss-absorbing capital.

FDIC Failed Bank List → View Helm Bank USA on FDIC BankFind →

Top banks in Florida by total assets

Largest banks headquartered in Florida
  1. 1

    Winter Haven, FL · Grade A

  2. 2
    EverBank $46.0B

    Jacksonville, FL · Grade B

  3. 3

    Saint Petersburg, FL · Grade A

  4. 4
    BankUnited $35.0B

    Miami Lakes, FL · Grade B

  5. 5

    Miami, FL · Grade A

Top 5 banks in Florida ranked by total assets · FDIC Call Report Q4 2025.

Nationwide banks with similar total assets

Nearest other-state banks with ≥$10M assets ($1.1B here), outside Florida so the neighborhood is not state containment.

Source: FDIC BankFind Suite, Call Report (FFIEC 031/041) Helm Bank USA (FDIC Cert #32718) - Tier 1 capital ratio, total assets, deposits, ROA/ROE · 2025 FDIC Call Reports filed quarterly; latest publicly-available vintage shown. Health grades are PlainBankData's interpretation of regulatory filings and are not official FDIC ratings.

Helm Bank USA Call Report profile · FDIC Failed Bank List · Florida FAILURE history · Informational only, not financial advice; consult a licensed professional before acting. See the disclaimer and methodology.

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Raymond James BankSaint Petersburg $43.4B A 1.47%
BankUnited, National AssociationMiami Lakes $35.0B B 0.89%
City National Bank of FloridaMiami $28.0B A 0.96%
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