Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC): Price and Financial Metrics

WABC POWR Grades

• Momentum is the dimension where WABC ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 92.95% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for WABC is in Growth, which has been heading up over the past 179 days.
• WABC's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 3.08% 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 248.71 -- higher than 90.78% of US-listed equities with positive expected earnings growth.
• Equity multiplier, or assets relative to shareholders' equity, comes in at 9.85 for WESTAMERICA BANCORPORATION; that's greater than it is for 90.95% of US stocks.
• The volatility of WESTAMERICA BANCORPORATION's share price is greater than that of only 0.89% US stocks with at least 200 days of trading history.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to WESTAMERICA BANCORPORATION, a group of peers worth examining would be FULT, AMNB, LARK, TRMK, and GABC.
• 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 6.9; this is 28.87% lower than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• WABC's price/earnings ratio has moved up 0.1 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for WABC.

WABC Growth Metrics

Its year over year price growth rate is now at -8.93%.
• The 2 year price growth rate now stands at -0.12%.
• The year over year revenue growth rate now stands at 3.4%.

WABC's revenue has moved up $39,527,000 over the prior 70 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
2022-06-30	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
2021-03-31	210.502	85.565	83.598

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.