Home BancShares is the Conway, Arkansas holding company behind Centennial Bank — a ~$22.5B-asset regional bank stretching from Arkansas across Florida and Texas to a single New York City branch. It funds itself with cheap local deposits and lends the money back out (mostly commercial real estate), converting ~83% of its $1B revenue from net interest income and running one of the most profitable efficiency ratios in US banking (~41%). It has grown largely by buying other banks.
What Home BancShares, Inc. really sells
Home BancShares is the Conway, Arkansas holding company behind Centennial Bank — a ~$22.5B-asset regional bank stretching from Arkansas across Florida and Texas to a single New York City branch. It funds itself with cheap local deposits and lends the money back out (mostly commercial real estate), converting ~83% of its $1B revenue from net interest income and running one of the most profitable efficiency ratios in US banking (~41%). It has grown largely by buying other banks.