West Bancorporation (WTBA): Price and Financial Metrics

WTBA POWR Grades

• Stability is the dimension where WTBA ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 86.05% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for WTBA is in Growth, which has been heading down over the past 177 days.
• WTBA's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 1.95% of US stocks).

WTBA Stock Summary

• For WTBA, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 95.24% of US equities we're observing.
• WTBA's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of 97.19% of US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for WTBA comes in at -72.65% -- higher than that of merely 6.3% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to WTBA, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are CUBI, HBNC, HMST, INBK, and RMBI.
• Visit WTBA's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.westbankstrong.com.

WTBA Valuation Summary

• WTBA's price/sales ratio is 3.5; this is 250% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• Over the past 243 months, WTBA's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 10.8.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for WTBA.

WTBA Growth Metrics

Its 2 year price growth rate is now at 59.93%.
• The 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 43.24%.
• Its 4 year price growth rate is now at -31.91%.

Over the past 34 months, WTBA's revenue has gone up $28,324,000.

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
2022-12-31	104.448	59.439	46.399
2022-09-30	108.464	64.365	49.363
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

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.