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

WAFD POWR Grades

• Value is the dimension where WAFD ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 76.92% of US stocks.
• WAFD's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• WAFD's current lowest rank is in the Quality metric (where it is better than 24.85% of US stocks).

WAFD Stock Summary

• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for WASHINGTON FEDERAL INC is higher than it is for about 91.96% of US stocks.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 118.67%, WASHINGTON FEDERAL INC's debt growth rate surpasses 90.56% of about US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for WAFD comes in at -114.22% -- higher than that of only 4.89% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to WASHINGTON FEDERAL INC are HBNC, FNCB, PKBK, INBK, and NYCB.
• 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

• In comparison to the median Financial Services stock, WAFD's price/earnings ratio is 32.63% lower, now standing at 6.4.
• Over the past 243 months, WAFD's price/earnings ratio has gone down 5.7.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for WAFD.

WAFD Growth Metrics

Its 3 year price growth rate is now at -6.09%.
• Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 30.22%.
• Its 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 7.53%.

WAFD's revenue has moved up $131,016,000 over the prior 34 months.

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
2022-12-31	699.967	307.724	250.934
2022-09-30	657.961	268.465	221.705
2022-06-30	622.819	236.164	200.682
2022-03-31	598.839	192.949	184.809
2021-12-31	586.103	247.116	181.255
2021-09-30	565.17	314.454	173.581

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 45.78% of graded US stocks.
• WAFD's asset turnover comes in at 0.028 -- ranking 398th of 428 Banking stocks.
• CHCO, WSBF, and ECPG are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with WAFD.

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