FDIC Cert #58177 · Salt Lake City, Utah · Est. 2005

Sallie Mae Bank - FDIC Bank Health Profile

One of the largest FDIC-insured institutions in the country, drawn straight from its quarterly Call Report to BankFind Suite.

$29.7B
Total assets
A
Health grade · Excellent
2.90%
Return on assets
11.1%
Tier 1 capital

Data updated July 2026

The verdict

Sallie Mae Bank earns a PlainBankData health grade of A (88/100), with well-capitalized at 11.09% Tier 1, profitable at 2.90% ROA, efficient (29% cost ratio).

#73
largest of 4,313 FDIC banks by assets
98th
percentile by asset size, nationally
11.09%
Tier 1 ratio - above the 10% well-capitalized line
98th
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 58177 · UT A · 88/100

GRADE-A · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · TIER1-WELL · TEXAS-CLEAN · ROA-STRONG · SIZE-LARGE · BOOK-FULL

  • GRADE-A A (88/100)
  • UPPER-Q #849/4307
  • PHOTO-FINISH Flint Community Bank · GA
  • TIER1-WELL 11.1% Tier 1
  • TEXAS-CLEAN 3.5% Texas
  • ROA-STRONG 2.90% ROA
  • SIZE-LARGE $10–100B
  • BOOK-FULL 9/9 fields

Nearest health peer outside Utah: Flint Community Bank, GA (±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 Sallie Mae Bank

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

Morgan Stanley Bank,… · UT ·…100/100Bank of San Francisco · CA ·…88/100Eagle Bank · MT · near88/100Flint Community Bank · GA · …88/100River City Bank · GA · near88/100Sallie Mae Bank · UT · this …88/100Tioga-Franklin Savin… · PA ·…0/100
PlainBankData health composite · neighbourhood around Sallie Mae Bank · July 2026

What Sallie Mae Bank's Call Report plate shows

Sallie Mae Bank (FDIC Cert #58177) carries a PlainBankData health grade of A at 88/100, 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 #849 of 4,307. Tier 1 capital prints at 11.09%, clearing the 10% well-capitalized line. The Texas Ratio is 3.50%, inside the sub-50% band analysts treat as healthy. Return on assets is 2.90%. Balance-sheet scale is $29.7B, 73rd of 4,313 FDIC-insured banks by assets. The nearest cross-state health peer is Flint Community Bank (GA), 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 Sallie Mae Bank

8 FAILURE resolutions in Utah since 2000 (7 since 2008)

Sallie Mae Bank's home state sits in the middle band of post-2000 FAILURE counts (8; 7 since the 2008 crisis window). Recent named resolutions below are Failed Bank List rows for this state only; Sallie Mae Bank remains an active FDIC-insured reporter.

  • PROFICIO BANK COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS, UT 2017 → CACHE VALLEY BANK
  • SUNFIRST BANK SAINT GEORGE, UT 2011 → CACHE VALLEY BANK
  • CENTENNIAL BANK OGDEN, UT 2010

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

How Sallie Mae Bank's 88/100 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 avg77/10088/100
Sallie Mae Bank's composite health score
Tier 1 Capital Ratio (11.09%) 28/40
Return on Assets (ROA) (2.90%) 25/25
Texas Ratio (3.50%) 20/20
Efficiency Ratio (28.58%) 15/15

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

Balance sheet at a glance

Total Assets

$29.7B

Total balance-sheet footings

Total Deposits

$21.5B

Customer-funded liabilities

Net Loans

$21.3B

Outstanding loan book

Net Income

$857M

Bottom-line earnings

Capital adequacy vs federal thresholds

0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12% 14% CET1 (≥6.5% req.) Tier 1 (≥8.0% req.) Total (≥10.0% req.) 9.69% 11.09% 12.49%
Basel III capital ratios - Sallie Mae Bank

Where Sallie Mae Bank ranks

Every one of the 4,307 FDIC-insured banks with a computed health score, bucketed by score. Sallie Mae Bank's score of 88/100 falls in the highlighted band.

Sallie Mae Bank: health score vs. every FDIC-insured bank

0-100 composite health score, FDIC Call Reports

88 Top 20% higher than 80% 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%). Below this entry. 80–90: 1,237 FDIC-insured banks (29%). This entry sits in this band. 90–100: 815 FDIC-insured banks (19%). Above this entry. Sallie Mae Bank 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

Sallie Mae Bank'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). Sallie Mae Bank's $29.7B falls in the highlighted band.

Safety ratios for Sallie Mae Bank

Tier 1 capital ratio
Well-capitalized 10%

11.09% of risk-weighted assets - above the federal "well-capitalized" threshold of 10%.

Tier 1 Capital Ratio
11.09%
Texas Ratio
3.50%
Equity Capital
$2.9B

What these ratios mean →

Earnings posture at Sallie Mae Bank

Return on Assets (ROA)
98th percentile nationally
2.90%
Return on Equity (ROE)
29.63%
Efficiency Ratio
28.58%

What these mean →

Income & expense at Sallie Mae Bank

$2.6B
Interest Income
$501M
Non-Interest Income
$587M
Non-Interest Expense

Asset quality, Texas Ratio detail

The Texas Ratio compares troubled assets to the capital available to absorb losses. Sallie Mae Bank reports a Texas Ratio of 3.50% - comfortably in the healthy band; non-performing loans are a small fraction of the bank’s loss-absorbing capital.

Texas Ratio
Caution 50%

3.50% - lower is safer; 100% is the level at which troubled assets equal loss-absorbing capital.

FDIC Failed Bank List → View Sallie Mae Bank on FDIC BankFind →

Top banks in Utah by total assets

Largest banks headquartered in Utah
  1. 1

    Salt Lake City, UT · Grade A

  2. 2

    Sandy, UT · Grade A

  3. 3
    Ally Bank $184.6B

    Sandy, UT · Grade A

  4. 4
    UBS Bank USA $119.3B

    Salt Lake City, UT · Grade A

  5. 5
    Synchrony Bank $112.1B

    Draper, UT · Grade A

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

National size peers: banks closest to Sallie Mae Bank by assets

Measured strictly by total assets rather than geography, Sallie Mae Bank's closest national peers include Eastern Bank, Texas Capital Bank, BNY Mellon, City National Bank of Florida, spanning 6 different states -- a reminder that at this scale, competition and comparison happen nationally, not just within Utah. Averaged across this asset-matched cohort, return on assets runs 0.84% (Sallie Mae Bank is above that at 2.90%), the efficiency ratio averages 60.80% (Sallie Mae Bank runs leaner at 28.58%), and Tier 1 capital averages 12.98% (Sallie Mae Bank holds less at 11.09%). None of this cohort competes on branch count alone -- balance-sheet scale, funding mix, and regulatory capital posture are the metrics that actually separate similarly-sized institutions.

At $29.7B in assets, Sallie Mae Bank has crossed the $10 billion threshold at which the CFPB takes over direct supervision for consumer-protection compliance under Dodd-Frank Act Section 1025, rather than leaving that oversight solely to the bank's primary prudential regulator.

Closest banks to Sallie Mae Bank nationally by total assets
  1. 1
    Eastern Bank $30.6B

    Boston, MA · Grade B

  2. 2

    Dallas, TX · Grade A

  3. 3
    BNY Mellon $31.3B

    Pittsburgh, PA · Grade B

  4. 4

    Miami, FL · Grade A

  5. 5

    Greenville, SC · Grade A

  6. 6
    Arvest Bank $27.8B

    Fayetteville, AR · Grade C

Six FDIC-insured banks nearest in total assets nationwide, regardless of state.

Head-to-head against the six closest national size peers, same FDIC Call Report vintage.
BankStateAssetsROAEfficiencyTier 1
Sallie Mae Bank (this bank) UT $29.7B 2.90% 28.58% 11.09%
Eastern Bank MA $30.6B 0.39% 54.83% 12.41%
Texas Capital Bank TX $31.3B 1.10% 57.52% 13.01%
BNY Mellon, National Association PA $31.3B 0.94% 66.72% 14.35%
City National Bank of Florida FL $28.0B 0.96% 48.16% 14.38%
United Community Bank SC $27.9B 1.19% 53.77% 12.34%
Arvest Bank AR $27.8B 0.49% 83.77% 11.41%

Nationwide banks with similar total assets

Nearest other-state banks with ≥$10M assets ($29.7B here), outside Utah so the neighborhood is not state containment.

Source: FDIC BankFind Suite, Call Report (FFIEC 031/041) Sallie Mae Bank (FDIC Cert #58177) - 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.

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

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