Arkansas’ ROA Third in District

In the second quarter of 2007, Arkansas banks collectively had a return on their average assets of 1.09 percent, ranking as No. 3 of the seven states in the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank’s Eighth District. The district includes all of Arkansas and parts of six other states.

Arkansas’ ROA was down 0.10 percent from the comparable quarter a year earlier. The entire Eighth District reported lower ROA than the previous year.

Many banks measure success and performance by their annual ROA percentage.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. defines ROA as “net income after taxes and extraordinary items [annualized] as a percent of average total assets.”

For the same quarter, Jonesboro-chartered Liberty Bank of Arkansas had an ROA of 0.98 percent; Signature Bank of Arkansas in Fayetteville had a -0.27 percent ROA; Legacy National Bank of Springdale had 0.40 percent ROA; and Pinnacle Bank had a -0.94 percent ROA.

The collective return on average assets for the district was 0.99 percent, and the U.S. average was 1.23 percent.