Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC): Price and Financial Metrics

WABC POWR Grades

• Stability is the dimension where WABC ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 95.46% of US stocks.
• WABC's strongest trending metric is Momentum; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• WABC's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 4.32% of US stocks).

WABC Stock Summary

• WABC's one year PEG ratio, measuring expected growth in earnings next year relative to current common stock price is 202.38 -- higher than 87.73% of US-listed equities with positive expected earnings growth.
• Equity multiplier, or assets relative to shareholders' equity, comes in at 8.71 for Westamerica Bancorporation; that's greater than it is for 88.71% of US stocks.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, WABC is more volatile than only 2.55% of stocks we're observing.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Westamerica Bancorporation, a group of peers worth examining would be GABC, CADE, AMAL, FULT, and CBFV.
• 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 EV/EBIT ratio is 5.8; this is 32.56% lower than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• WABC's price/sales ratio has moved up 0.9 over the prior 243 months.
• Over the past 243 months, WABC's price/sales ratio has gone up 0.9.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for WABC.

WABC Growth Metrics

The 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 36.31%.
• The year over year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 184.43%.
• The 5 year revenue growth rate now stands at 10.65%.

WABC's revenue has moved up $12,355,000 over the prior 34 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
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
2021-03-31	210.502	85.565	83.598
2020-12-31	205.369	107.744	80.413
2020-09-30	200.089	112.281	77.303

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.