Top Small Banks
Publicly traded institutions with less than $1 billion in assets, ranked by income as a percentage of average assets.
| Rank |
Company
Name |
1998
Assets
(millions) |
1998
Income
(millions) |
Return
on
average
assets |
| 1 |
Lawrence Savings Bank |
$340.0 |
$8.8 |
2.59% |
| 2 |
Atlantic Bank |
$472.8 |
$7.3 |
1.55% |
| 3 |
Warren Bancorp Inc. |
$397.1 |
$5.9 |
1.49% |
| 4 |
Home Port Bancorp Inc. |
$275.6 |
$3.6 |
1.29% |
| 5 |
Boston Private Financial Holdings |
$457.2 |
$5.5 |
1.20% |
| 6 |
MetroWest Bank |
$690.4 |
$8.2 |
1.18% |
| 7 |
MASSBANK Corp. |
$946.6 |
$10.9 |
1.15% |
| 8 |
Century Bancorp Inc. |
$853.3 |
$8.1 |
0.95% |
| 9 |
Westbank Corp. |
$355.0 |
$3.3 |
0.92% |
| 10 |
Peoples Bancshares Inc. |
$944.6 |
$7.8 |
0.83% |
| Source: Nordby
International, Inc., Boulder, Co. |
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