Washington Federal, Inc. (WAFD): Price and Financial Metrics

WAFD POWR Grades

• WAFD scores best on the Momentum dimension, with a Momentum rank ahead of 70.29% of US stocks.
• WAFD's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 48 weeks.
• WAFD's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 16.15% of US stocks).

WAFD Stock Summary

• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for Washington Federal Inc is higher than it is for about 84.19% of US stocks.
• WAFD's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of 88.73% of US stocks.
• Washington Federal Inc's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 51.22%, greater than the shareholder yield of 95.57% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Washington Federal Inc are FIBK, PKBK, FLIC, BY, and VLY.
• WAFD's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Washington Federal Inc's official web site, go to www.wafdbank.com.

WAFD Valuation Summary

• WAFD's price/earnings ratio is 14.3; this is 30% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• WAFD's price/sales ratio has moved down 2.3 over the prior 243 months.
• WAFD's price/sales ratio has moved down 2.3 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for WAFD.

WAFD Growth Metrics

• Its year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 81.01%.
• Its 4 year price growth rate is now at 2.23%.
• The 2 year revenue growth rate now stands at 12.64%.

Over the past 52 months, WAFD's revenue has gone up $61,126,000.

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

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-06-30	533.114	304.633	159.209
2021-03-31	509.15	319.798	150.295
2020-12-31	498.292	187.184	146.096
2020-09-30	534.718	166.6	173.438
2020-06-30	553.095	177.016	190.867
2020-03-31	568.951	176.676	209.869

WAFD'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.

• WAFD has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 46.29% of graded US stocks.
• WAFD's asset turnover comes in at 0.028 -- ranking 407th of 437 Banking stocks.
• WSBF, BKGM, and BCTF are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with WAFD.

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