Comparison is the active group as a table: members down the side, measures across the top, every value read at the same quarter in a single pass. It is the view for the question "who else looks like this?" rather than "how do I look?".
It reads the active group — it does not choose one
The group lens at the top of the shell selects which group is active, and Comparison follows it. With no active group the page says so and sends you to Find & Compare Banks rather than picking one for you.
The group's definition sits above the table as a strip you can expand. Collapsed it shows the method, the definition version and the member count; expanded it is the definition itself, verbatim. Any export of these figures has to carry it.
No privileged row
Every member is fetched in one request with no subject named. Your own institution is a row like any other. That is deliberate: a table that quietly centres one member teaches you to read the others as context for it, which is the opposite of what a comparison is for.
Sorting, and what the order means
Click a column to sort in that measure's stated rank direction; click again to reverse. Institutions without a value always sort last — never as zero, never as worst. The sort line above the table says in words what the order currently is, so a screenshot of the table is still readable.
Geographic groups get two extra columns
Where the active group is geographic, the table adds two share columns from the Summary of Deposits:
- Share of area— how much of the area's deposits this institution holds.
- Area share of institution — how much of their deposits sit in your area.
They answer different questions and are easy to confuse: a large bank can dominate your market while the market is a rounding error to them. Both carry the SOD vintage and its as-of date. If the shares cannot be resolved, the columns are absent and the reason is stated rather than rendered as blanks.
The ident line says it on every load: rank, not percentile — custom groups are too small for one. If you need a percentile, the FFIEC regulatory peer line on the institution view is where a published one exists.