# BLUE FLAME
Mobile, AL · NCUA charter 64644 · asset band <$50M · latest filing 2026-03 · live
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Who the members are: state charter, organized 1954, low-income designated. 769 members of 1,500 potential (51.3% of the field); checking penetration 47% (share draft accounts per 100 members); loans per 100 members 42.

**Verdict on the desk:** this could be *auto monoline*. Composite score 2 of 18 (one point per flag across 17 flags, capital below 7% counted twice).

## What the filing shows

| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Total assets | $10.7M |
| Members | 769 (-1.3% YoY) |
| Full-time staff | 3 |
| Net worth | $1.6M |
| Net worth ratio | 15.1% (p51 of band) |
| ROA (annualized) | 0.48% (p46 of band) |
| Total delinquency | 0.00% (p8 of band) |
| Net charge-offs (annualized) | -0.04% (p15 of band) |
| Loans / shares | 44% (p29 of band) |
| Cash / assets | 34.1% |
| Borrowings / assets | 0.00% |
| Net interest margin | 3.29% (p27 of band) |
| Operating expense / assets | 3.31% (p41 of band) |
| Vehicles % of loans | 68% (p61 of band) |
| Indirect vehicle % of vehicle (all-channel basis before 2022) | 0% |
| Third-party paper % of net worth | 0% (p43 of band) |
| Vehicle delinquency | 0.00% (p16 of band) |
| Vehicle NCO | 0.00% (p35 of band) |
| Repossessed % of vehicle book | 0.00% (p46 of band) |
| Real estate % of loans | 1% |
| Credit cards % of loans | 0% |
| Unsecured % of loans | 10% |
| Commercial % of net worth | 0% |
| Core shares % of member funds | 78% |
| Certificates % of member funds | 15% |
| Average share balance | $6,923 |
| Participations bought / yr | $0 |
| Participations sold / yr | $0 |
| Participations outstanding | – |
| Loans outstanding per 100 members | 42% |
| Loans granted per 100 members, annualized | 17% |
| Average loan balance | $11,950 |
| Loans granted, annualized | $2.7M |

## Flags firing in the latest filing

- **net worth falling** (`cap_falling`)
- **auto monoline** (`str_vehicle`)

## Warning timeline

| Quarter | Score | Flags that first fired | Flags that cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-03 | 0 |  |  |
| 2016-06 | 0 |  |  |
| 2016-09 | 0 |  |  |
| 2016-12 | 0 |  |  |
| 2017-03 | 2 | delinquency rising, members leaving |  |
| 2017-06 | 3 | losing money |  |
| 2017-09 | 1 |  | delinquency rising, losing money |
| 2017-12 | 2 | loan book shrinking |  |
| 2018-03 | 4 | delinquency rising, assets shrinking, auto monoline | loan book shrinking |
| 2018-06 | 5 | losing money |  |
| 2018-09 | 4 |  | delinquency rising |
| 2018-12 | 2 |  | members leaving, losing money |
| 2019-03 | 2 |  |  |
| 2019-06 | 2 | net worth falling | assets shrinking |
| 2019-09 | 2 | delinquency rising | net worth falling |
| 2019-12 | 2 |  |  |
| 2020-03 | 2 |  |  |
| 2020-06 | 2 | losing money | delinquency rising |
| 2020-09 | 3 | net worth falling |  |
| 2020-12 | 3 | margin squeeze | net worth falling |
| 2021-03 | 2 |  | losing money |
| 2021-06 | 3 | net worth falling |  |
| 2021-09 | 3 |  |  |
| 2021-12 | 2 |  | net worth falling |
| 2022-03 | 2 |  |  |
| 2022-06 | 1 |  | margin squeeze |
| 2022-09 | 1 |  |  |
| 2022-12 | 1 |  |  |
| 2023-03 | 1 |  |  |
| 2023-06 | 2 | assets shrinking |  |
| 2023-09 | 3 | members leaving |  |
| 2023-12 | 2 |  | assets shrinking |
| 2024-03 | 2 |  |  |
| 2024-06 | 2 |  |  |
| 2024-09 | 2 | loan book shrinking | members leaving |
| 2024-12 | 3 | delinquency rising |  |
| 2025-03 | 1 |  | loan book shrinking, delinquency rising |
| 2025-06 | 3 | delinquency rising, loan book shrinking |  |
| 2025-09 | 4 | members leaving |  |
| 2025-12 | 1 |  | delinquency rising, loan book shrinking, members leaving |
| 2026-03 | 2 | net worth falling |  |

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## How to verify

- Page: https://getbookiq.com/cu-intel/#cu=64644 (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 "64644", 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=64644
- 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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