Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC): Price and Financial Metrics

WABC POWR Grades

• WABC scores best on the Growth dimension, with a Growth rank ahead of 89.21% of US stocks.
• WABC's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving down over the last 177 days.
• WABC ranks lowest in Sentiment; there it ranks in the 9th percentile.

WABC Stock Summary

• WABC's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of 92.5% of US stocks.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -35.45%, WESTAMERICA BANCORPORATION's debt growth rate surpasses just 8.65% of about US stocks.
• The volatility of WESTAMERICA BANCORPORATION's share price is greater than that of just 2.18% US stocks with at least 200 days of trading history.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to WESTAMERICA BANCORPORATION are GABC, SYBT, TRMK, CCNE, and CBAN.
• Visit WABC's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.westamerica.com.

WABC Valuation Summary

• WABC's price/sales ratio is 6.2; this is 416.67% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• WABC's price/sales ratio has moved up 0.3 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for WABC.

WABC Growth Metrics

The 3 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 20.72%.
• Its year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 3.18%.
• The year over year price growth rate now stands at -8.93%.

WABC's revenue has moved up $57,759,000 over the prior 67 months.

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

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30	239.145	89.488	104.41
2022-06-30	221.612	85.692	91.713
2022-03-31	217.658	88.286	88.978
2021-12-31	214.833	88.735	86.509
2021-09-30	217.893	82.634	88.627
2021-06-30	214.668	87.287	86.615

WABC'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.

• WABC has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 29.92% of graded US stocks.
• WABC's asset turnover comes in at 0.031 -- ranking 353rd of 428 Banking stocks.
• NTRS, HTBK, and FFIN are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with WABC.

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