Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC): Price and Financial Metrics

WABC POWR Grades

• Growth is the dimension where WABC ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 78.37% of US stocks.
• WABC's strongest trending metric is Value; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• WABC ranks lowest in Value; there it ranks in the 23rd percentile.

WABC Stock Summary

• WESTAMERICA BANCORPORATION's stock had its IPO on March 17, 1992, making it an older stock than 82.93% of US equities in our set.
• WABC's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of 92.89% of US stocks.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -33.23%, WESTAMERICA BANCORPORATION's debt growth rate surpasses just 9.84% of about US stocks.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to WABC, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are PLBC, CCNE, MOFG, CHCO, and SPFI.
• WABC's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit WESTAMERICA BANCORPORATION's official web site, go to www.westamerica.com.

WABC Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Financial Services stock, WABC's price/sales ratio is 59.09% higher, now standing at 3.5.
• WABC's EV/EBIT ratio has moved down 9.5 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for WABC.

WABC Growth Metrics

The 3 year revenue growth rate now stands at 7.5%.
• The year over year price growth rate now stands at -8.93%.
• Its year over year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 6.44%.

Over the past 67 months, WABC's revenue has gone up $57,759,000.

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.