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Studio Bank

STBK
48
Banks - Regional · Financial Services
Price
$14.60
-0.07 (-0.49%)
Market Cap
$104.8M
Winston Score
48
Winston is serious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026
How the score breaks down
Bank Quality
Mixed
Growth
Mixed
Capital Strength
Strong
Asset Quality
Exceptional
Valuation
Mixed

Share count rising — dilution

+13.2% over 4y

The company has issued more shares over this period, which dilutes each existing shareholder’s stake.

Diluted shares outstanding: 6.3M (2021) → 7.1M (2025)

Winston Score History

The full picture

Studio Bank is a small community bank based in Nashville, Tennessee. It focuses on serving creative and entrepreneurial businesses, including people who work in the music, entertainment, and media industries. It offers standard banking services like checking accounts, loans, and deposits, but targets clients in Nashville's well-known creative economy.

The bank makes money the traditional way — it earns interest on loans and collects fees on banking services. It operates primarily in the Nashville area, making it a highly local and concentrated business. With a market cap of around $100 million, it is a very small bank. Its niche focus on creative industries gives it a differentiated identity, but that same concentration is also a risk — if Nashville's entertainment economy slows down or larger banks aggressively target the same customers, Studio Bank could struggle to grow its thin profit margins.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+10.3% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady revenue growth

EPS Growth

+31.8% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Strong earnings growth

R&D Spend

$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (7%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

7.7%ownership

Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Growth context

Studio Bank is growing revenue at 10% year-over-year. The Winston Score measures business quality today — these growth metrics show what could matter tomorrow.

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

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Bank Quality

Return on owners' money
Return on Equity
6.2%
no trend
Weak — 6.2% return on equity

Standard mid-range return on equity. Acceptable.

Profit on lending
Net Interest Margin
3.28%
no trend
Healthy — 3.28% net interest margin
Cost of running the bank
Efficiency Ratio
68.4%
no trend
Bloated cost base — 68.4% efficiency ratio

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Growth

Sales growth
Sales YoY
+15.0%
Fast-growing sales (+15.0% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
-1.1%
Earnings shrinking (-1.1% YoY)

Slight earnings drop. Typical near a cyclical low.

How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
5/8 quarters
Mixed — about half the quarters showed growth

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Capital Strength

Safety cushion
Capital Ratio
11.5%
no trend
Well capitalised — 11.5% CET1

A solid capital cushion. The bank can take some loan losses and keep going.

Asset Quality

Loans not being repaid
Non-Performing Loans
0.24%
no trend
Clean loan book — 0.24% non-performing

Under half a percent of loans are going bad. A very clean loan book.

Loans written off
Net Charge-Offs
0.14%
no trend
Minimal losses — 0.14% net charge-offs

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
15.7x
Fair value — P/E 15.7

P/E in the normal range. Price is roughly $15 for every $1 of yearly profit.

Cheaper or dearer next year
P/E vs Forward
N/A
not available
Data not available

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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