West Bancorporation (WTBA): Price and Financial Metrics

WTBA POWR Grades

• WTBA scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 98.13% of US stocks.
• WTBA's strongest trending metric is Sentiment; it's been moving up over the last 177 days.
• WTBA ranks lowest in Quality; there it ranks in the 30th percentile.

WTBA Stock Summary

• Equity multiplier, or assets relative to shareholders' equity, comes in at 14.27 for WEST BANCORPORATION INC; that's greater than it is for 96.37% of US stocks.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 129.56%, WEST BANCORPORATION INC's debt growth rate surpasses 90.66% of about US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for WTBA comes in at -57.85% -- higher than that of only 9.83% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to WEST BANCORPORATION INC are FFIC, WAL, CUBI, MBWM, and BWB.
• WTBA's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit WEST BANCORPORATION INC's official web site, go to www.westbankstrong.com.

WTBA Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Financial Services stock, WTBA's price/sales ratio is 190.91% higher, now standing at 3.2.
• Over the past 243 months, WTBA's price/sales ratio has gone down 3.6.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for WTBA.

WTBA Growth Metrics

Its 4 year revenue growth rate is now at 18.92%.
• The 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 117.26%.
• Its year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 24.35%.

WTBA's revenue has moved up $36,694,000 over the prior 33 months.

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

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-06-30	109.071	63.015	50.467
2022-03-31	108.169	58.348	51.039
2021-12-31	106.288	57.878	49.607
2021-09-30	99.932	53.657	46.251
2021-06-30	93.38	47.263	41.645
2021-03-31	85.537	46.922	36.375

WTBA'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.

• WTBA has a Quality Grade of D, ranking ahead of 22.76% of graded US stocks.
• WTBA's asset turnover comes in at 0.031 -- ranking 355th of 430 Banking stocks.
• RNST, HAFC, and RBB are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with WTBA.

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