# HEALTHFIRST
Waterville, ME · NCUA charter 18500 · asset band <$50M · latest filing 2016-03 · stopped filing after 2016-03 (departed; for a credit union that is almost always a merger)
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Who the members are: federal charter, community charter, organized 1968, low-income designated. 3,202 members of 174,379 potential (1.8% of the field); checking penetration 35% (share draft accounts per 100 members); loans per 100 members 45.

**Verdict on the desk:** this could be *ordinary*. Composite score 1 of 18 (one point per flag across 17 flags, capital below 7% counted twice).

## What the filing shows

| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Total assets | $16.9M |
| Members | 3,202 (– YoY) |
| Full-time staff | 6 |
| Net worth | $1.5M |
| Net worth ratio | 8.8% (p19 of band) |
| ROA (annualized) | 0.69% (p79 of band) |
| Total delinquency | 1.29% (p63 of band) |
| Net charge-offs (annualized) | 1.49% (p89 of band) |
| Loans / shares | 61% (p60 of band) |
| Cash / assets | 22.0% |
| Borrowings / assets | 0.00% |
| Net interest margin | 2.75% (p41 of band) |
| Operating expense / assets | 3.34% (p49 of band) |
| Vehicles % of loans | 50% (p49 of band) |
| Indirect vehicle % of vehicle (all-channel basis before 2022) | 29% |
| Third-party paper % of net worth | 92% (p97 of band) |
| Vehicle delinquency | 0.19% (p37 of band) |
| Vehicle NCO | 1.69% (p92 of band) |
| Repossessed % of vehicle book | 0.10% (p91 of band) |
| Real estate % of loans | 32% |
| Credit cards % of loans | 6% |
| Unsecured % of loans | 11% |
| Commercial % of net worth | 0% |
| Core shares % of member funds | 72% |
| Certificates % of member funds | 25% |
| Average share balance | $2,863 |
| Participations bought / yr | $0 |
| Participations sold / yr | $0 |
| Participations outstanding | – |
| Loans outstanding per 100 members | 45% |
| Loans granted per 100 members, annualized | 17% |
| Average loan balance | $6,515 |
| Loans granted, annualized | $3.1M |

## Flags firing in the latest filing

- **thin capital** (`cap_low`)

## Warning timeline

| Quarter | Score | Flags that first fired | Flags that cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-03 | 1 | thin capital |  |

## In the news (Google News, unfiltered, newest first; check the city)

- 2021-12-03 [Obituary: Deborah (Batey) Pomeroy - Centralmaine.com](https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiekFVX3lxTFBxODZvczB2SjZTMWF3SENqVU03ZktBOUU3OWRGejJweFdtOXdsemQ0ckU2T0hoTmJaY3NkMW91MTVURXhJWjluZUhFT3JSZ0V2cVZjNjVVTEZDUXdRcm5sTFdkNlAxeWpEcHFXRXJGWTJjOS04b09MRFZB?oc=5) · Centralmaine.com

## How to verify

- Page: https://getbookiq.com/cu-intel/#cu=18500 (every cell opens its formula and NCUA account codes; the News tab is the same search)
- Latest row, JSON: https://getbookiq.com/cu-intel/data/summary.json · history: https://getbookiq.com/cu-intel/data/h/4.json (key "18500", columns cycle, assets, loans, shares, networth, nwr, roa, total_dq_pct, total_nco_pct, vehicle, veh_pct_loans, indirect, ind_pct_veh, ind_veh, ind_re, ind_comm, ind_other, ind_pct_loans, loans_n, granted_n_ytd, granted_ann, loan_pen, granted_pen, avg_loan_bal, loans_per_fte, veh_part, tp_pct_nw, veh_dq_pct, veh_nco_pct, repo_pct_veh, members_yoy, ltos, cash_pct, borrow_pct, nim_pct, opex_pct, risk_score, members, fte, cash_total, invest_sec, allowance_eff, int_income_ytd, int_exp_ytd, provision_eff_ytd, nonint_income_ytd, nonint_exp_ytd, net_income_ytd, n_flags, re_pct_loans, cc_pct_loans, comm_pct_loans, cert_pct_shares, core_pct_shares, part_buy_ann, part_sell_ann, pot_members, sh_draft_n, chk_pen, fom_pen, flags)
- Participation history: https://getbookiq.com/participation-desk/#cu=18500
- Field definitions: https://getbookiq.com/dictionary/#cu-ltos and the rest of the credit union dictionary
- Source: NCUA 5300 call report bulk files. Income fields are annualized by cycle month (Mar x4, Jun x2, Sep x4/3, Dec x1). Percentiles are within the asset band in the same quarter.

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