West Bancorporation (WTBA): Price and Financial Metrics

WTBA POWR Grades

• Stability is the dimension where WTBA ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 97.75% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for WTBA is in Value, which has been heading up over the past 179 days.
• WTBA's current lowest rank is in the Quality metric (where it is better than 29.7% of US stocks).

WTBA Stock Summary

• Equity multiplier, or assets relative to shareholders' equity, comes in at 13.27 for West Bancorporation Inc; that's greater than it is for 95.98% of US stocks.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, WTBA is more volatile than only 12.64% of stocks we're observing.
• West Bancorporation Inc's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 8.24%, greater than the shareholder yield of 81.15% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to West Bancorporation Inc are VBTX, BWB, EGBN, TCBI, and MNSB.
• 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

• In comparison to the median Financial Services stock, WTBA's price/sales ratio is 62.5% higher, now standing at 5.2.
• WTBA's price/sales ratio has moved down 0.2 over the prior 239 months.
• Over the past 239 months, WTBA's price/sales ratio has gone down 0.2.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for WTBA.

WTBA Growth Metrics

The 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 17.05%.
• The 4 year revenue growth rate now stands at 21.97%.
• Its 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 3.26%.

Over the past 70 months, WTBA's revenue has gone up $43,875,000.

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
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
2020-12-31	80.435	42.285	32.712
2020-09-30	78.97	40.726	31.765

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.