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SmartFinancial is a bank holding company whose main business is owning and operating SmartBank. The bank serves businesses and individuals in Tennessee, Alabama, Florida and Georgia. It gathers deposits from local customers and uses that money chiefly to make loans, with a focus on commercial real estate and small and medium-sized businesses. Its subsidiary Fountain Equipment Finance also finances heavy equipment, semi-trucks and trailers through loans and leases.
Borrowers pay interest and fees, while the bank pays interest on deposits and other funding. The difference between interest earned and interest paid supplies most of its revenue; deposit-account fees and investment income also contribute. Earnings depend on retaining deposits, borrowers repaying their loans and how lending rates move relative to funding costs. Most loans are backed by real estate, tying repayment and collateral recovery closely to conditions in its local property markets.
Banking rules limit permitted activities and impose capital requirements. Regulators can also restrict acquisitions and branch openings.
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First Financial Corporation’s First Financial Bank competes with SmartFinancial’s SmartBank for business and household loans and deposits in eastern and central Tennessee and Georgia. Its lending and deposit activity in those markets is worth watching for competition over SmartBank’s customers and funding.
Memphis-based First Horizon competes with SmartFinancial’s SmartBank for business and household banking customers in the southern U.S., including Tennessee. Watch its local lending and deposits rather than its nationwide specialty lending to gauge the competition SmartBank faces.
Truist Financial competes with SmartFinancial’s SmartBank for business and retail loans and deposits across Tennessee, Alabama, Florida and Georgia. Its deposit market share in those four states is a concrete measure of the competition for the customer funds SmartBank uses to lend.
Simmons First National Corp’s Simmons Bank offers Tennessee businesses and households commercial property loans, other loans and deposit accounts alongside SmartFinancial’s SmartBank. Watch Simmons’ loan and deposit rates: it identifies both as ways it competes for these customers.
First Community Bankshares’ First Community Bank competes with SmartFinancial’s SmartBank for individual and business banking relationships in Tennessee. Its pricing and relationship-banking efforts are worth watching for how it seeks to win loan and deposit customers.
Southern Missouri Bancorp offers a comparison for SmartFinancial: Southern Bank and SmartBank have similarly sized loan portfolios heavily secured by property and fund lending mainly with deposits. Watch Southern’s property-loan performance and the gap between loan yields and deposit costs, the same drivers that matter to SmartBank.
Mercantile Bank Corp and SmartFinancial’s SmartBank both use deposits to lend to small and medium-sized businesses, commercial property borrowers and construction borrowers. Mercantile’s business credit lines and commercial property term loans generally carry floating rates, making their yields alongside deposit costs a useful comparison for SmartBank’s lending income.
Southern First Bancshares and SmartFinancial’s SmartBank both build customer relationships to fund lending with deposits in the Southeast, including Georgia. Watch Southern First’s deposit gathering through its dedicated banker teams for a comparison of how customer relationships support lending funds.
First Mid Bancshares and SmartFinancial’s SmartBank both rely heavily on lending income and have substantial commercial property loan portfolios. Watch First Mid’s commercial property credit quality: lending generated about 74% of its revenue in 2025, making those borrowers particularly important to its results.
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Southern Missouri Bancorp’s report will show whether a deposit-funded bank with a property-heavy loan book can maintain credit quality and its interest spread, a useful comparison for SmartFinancial.
Read Southern Missouri’s property-loan performance alongside the gap between loan yields and deposit costs. Sound loans and a maintained gap would show that a similar deposit-funded model can earn a spread while containing credit risk; worsening property loans or a narrowing gap would flag the combined credit and funding-cost pressures relevant to SmartFinancial.
Fed Interest Rate Decision
For SmartFinancial, the Fed’s rate decision matters because it can change what SmartBank earns on repricing loans and investments and pays on deposits and borrowings, affecting net interest income.
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If it comes in above expectations
If the Fed’s rate decision is higher than expected, SmartBank may earn more on repricing loans and investments, while paying more on deposits and borrowings; its year-end 2025 simulation suggests the income earned could modestly outweigh the added funding costs.
If it comes in below expectations
If the Fed’s rate decision is lower than expected, SmartBank may earn less on repricing loans and investments, while paying less on deposits and borrowings; its year-end 2025 simulation suggests the lost interest income could modestly exceed the funding-cost savings.
