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

WAL POWR Grades

• WAL scores best on the Momentum dimension, with a Momentum rank ahead of 80.45% of US stocks.
• WAL's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving down over the last 177 days.
• WAL's current lowest rank is in the Quality metric (where it is better than 12.03% of US stocks).

WAL Stock Summary

• WAL's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of 95.23% of US stocks.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 236.95%, WESTERN ALLIANCE BANCORPORATION's debt growth rate surpasses 93.88% 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 -84.2%, greater than the shareholder yield of merely 6.6% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to WESTERN ALLIANCE BANCORPORATION, a group of peers worth examining would be MCBS, SNV, OPHC, CFBK, and ISTR.
• WAL's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit WESTERN ALLIANCE BANCORPORATION's official web site, go to www.westernalliancebancorporation.com.

WAL Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Financial Services stock, WAL's EV/EBIT ratio is 6.31% lower, now standing at 10.4.
• Over the past 214 months, WAL's price/sales ratio has gone down 4.4.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for WAL.

WAL Growth Metrics

Its 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 231.25%.
• Its 2 year price growth rate is now at 112.12%.
• The 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 103.34%.

Over the past 33 months, WAL's revenue has gone up $1,235,493,000.

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
2022-09-30	2,322.5	2,065.9	997.2
2022-06-30	2,223.3	267.2	973.3
2022-03-31	2,151.8	-2,131.2	940.1
2021-12-31	1,974.4	-2,654	895.7
2021-09-30	1,799.394	-3,048.916	846.795
2021-06-30	1,553.877	-1,574.402	745.664

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 30.56% of graded US stocks.
• WAL's asset turnover comes in at 0.04 -- ranking 172nd of 428 Banking stocks.
• USB, FCCY, and SRCE are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with WAL.

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