Western Alliance Bancorporation (DE) (WAL): Price and Financial Metrics

WAL POWR Grades

• WAL scores best on the Sentiment dimension, with a Sentiment rank ahead of 80.83% of US stocks.
• WAL's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving down over the last 52 weeks.
• WAL ranks lowest in Value; there it ranks in the 4th percentile.

WAL Stock Summary

• Equity multiplier, or assets relative to shareholders' equity, comes in at 11.28 for Western Alliance Bancorporation; that's greater than it is for 93.77% of US stocks.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 154.47%, Western Alliance Bancorporation's debt growth rate surpasses 93.77% of about US stocks.
• Western Alliance Bancorporation's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 21.25%, greater than the shareholder yield of 89.99% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Western Alliance Bancorporation are EGBN, AX, EWBC, ACBI, and PROV.
• Visit WAL's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.westernalliancebancorporation.com.

WAL Valuation Summary

• WAL's price/earnings ratio is 13.3; this is 20.91% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• Over the past 196 months, WAL's price/earnings ratio has gone down 15.4.
• Over the past 196 months, WAL's price/sales ratio has gone down 1.2.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for WAL.

WAL Growth Metrics

• Its year over year revenue growth rate is now at 19.97%.
• Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -5.39%.
• The year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at -6.39%.

WAL's revenue has moved up $648,914,000 over the prior 33 months.

The table below shows WAL'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	1,553.877	-1,574.402	745.664
2021-03-31	1,260.547	646.321	615.136
2020-12-31	1,114.1	670.2	506.6
2020-09-30	1,025.305	633.383	441.069
2020-06-30	1,016.485	670.894	432.675
2020-03-31	1,050.714	690.437	462.339

WAL'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.

• WAL has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 28.85% of graded US stocks.
• WAL's asset turnover comes in at 0.038 -- ranking 214th of 433 Banking stocks.
• CPF, USB, and LBAI are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with WAL.

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