Company Analysis

Metropolitan Bank Holding Corp. (MCB)

NYSE: MCB · State Commercial Banks · New York, NY · filing with the SEC since 2009
Grade6.0
◀ Past 7.3● Present 5.9▶ Future 4.1

The grade of Metropolitan Bank Holding Corp.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
6.0/10
◀ Past7.340% of the headline
● Present5.935% of the headline
▶ Future4.125% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

7.3/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.8/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 45% of this tense · 78th percentile among 165 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Metropolitan Bank Holding Corp.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
8.2/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+31.4% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 22% of this tense · 82nd percentile among 152 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Metropolitan Bank Holding Corp.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $44 million in fiscal 2016 to $515 million in fiscal 2025, up 31.4% a year; it rose in 9 of 9 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span31.4%top 4% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 13% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 44% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak0.0%top 13% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
5.9/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 1.4% a year. 27% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 23 sales, 5 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 59th percentile among 157 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Metropolitan Bank Holding Corp.'s diluted share count shrank about 1.4% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 27% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 23 sales (12 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 5 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $253 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 18% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 36% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

5.9/1035% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
5.4/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 10%: 10¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 91%: owes 91¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 54th percentile among 161 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Metropolitan Bank Holding Corp. earned about 10 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 91 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 4.6% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 20% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 46% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 4% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
5.5/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 45% of 155 in its family; net margin 13.8%.

weight 33% of this tense · 55th percentile among 155 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Metropolitan Bank Holding Corp.'s standing among 155 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $515 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 36% by size; a net margin of 13.8% ranks in the bottom 15%; revenue growth of 25.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 16% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$515Mtop 36% of its family
  • net margin13.8%bottom 15% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth25.5%top 16% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
7.5/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 25% of 150 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2017.

weight 22% of this tense · 75th percentile among 150 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Metropolitan Bank Holding Corp.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Defazio, Mark R (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2017-11-07, 9 years (top 36% of its family); the 21 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 8.5 years (top 36%); 1 officer or director change was reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 21 people in charge now (top 3%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge1 in three years among 21 peopletop 3% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed8.5 yearstop 36% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record9.0 yearstop 36% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.1/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
4.4/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 44% of 142 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 44th percentile among 142 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Metropolitan Bank Holding Corp.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $394 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 4.8% of its assets as net cash, top 34% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 17.2% of revenue (bottom 23%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets4.8%top 34% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue17.2%bottom 23% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
4.2/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 42% of 152 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 42nd percentile among 152 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Metropolitan Bank Holding Corp.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 25.5% a year over the last three filed years against 31.4% over all 10, slowing (bottom 7% of its family); the newest year grew 10% (top 27%); capital spending grew 4.3% a year (bottom 48%) (its annual reports). Metropolitan Bank Holding Corp. tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-5.9 points a yearbottom 7% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth10.0%top 27% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending4.3%bottom 48% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
3.5/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 35% of 150 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 35th percentile among 150 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Metropolitan Bank Holding Corp.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $515 million in fiscal 2025 came in 17.9% below the $628 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 40% of its family); net income of $71 million against a prior three-year average of $68 million (bottom 35%); a net margin of 13.8% against 19.2% before (bottom 32%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-17.9%bottom 40% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+5%bottom 35% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-5.4 pointsbottom 32% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton MCB · research, not advice