Bankwell Financial Group, Inc. (BWFG): Price and Financial Metrics

BWFG POWR Grades

• BWFG scores best on the Sentiment dimension, with a Sentiment rank ahead of 98.49% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for BWFG is in Stability, which has been heading up over the past 179 days.
• BWFG's current lowest rank is in the Quality metric (where it is better than 38.62% of US stocks).

BWFG Stock Summary

• Equity multiplier, or assets relative to shareholders' equity, comes in at 11.84 for Bankwell Financial Group Inc; that's greater than it is for 94.76% of US stocks.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -57.83%, Bankwell Financial Group Inc's debt growth rate surpasses only 5.93% of about US stocks.
• Bankwell Financial Group Inc's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 47.1%, greater than the shareholder yield of 96.83% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Bankwell Financial Group Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be FNWB, HONE, HFBL, PROV, and CFB.
• Visit BWFG's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.mybankwell.com.

BWFG Valuation Summary

• BWFG's price/sales ratio is 3.7; this is 208.33% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• Over the past 93 months, BWFG's price/sales ratio has gone down 1.
• BWFG's EV/EBIT ratio has moved down 12.6 over the prior 93 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for BWFG.

BWFG Growth Metrics

Its 5 year revenue growth rate is now at 21.53%.
• Its 5 year price growth rate is now at -33.02%.
• Its 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 188.83%.

BWFG's revenue has moved up $18,957,000 over the prior 52 months.

The table below shows BWFG's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	73.6	34.558	26.586
2021-09-30	68.189	37.135	19.109
2021-06-30	62.672	29.518	15.245
2021-03-31	55.848	32.024	10.231
2020-12-31	50.114	-1.512	5.904
2020-09-30	49.518	1.209	9.04

BWFG's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• BWFG has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 29.19% of graded US stocks.
• BWFG's asset turnover comes in at 0.028 -- ranking 400th of 430 Banking stocks.
• PACW, FCF, and RNST are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with BWFG.

The table below shows BWFG's key quality metrics over time.