WTBA Price Forecast Based on Dividend Discount Model

For dividend yielding stocks, the Dividend Discount Model (DDM) is a common valuation tool; it attempts to extrapolate a fair share price based primarily on the dividend the stock provides relative to a number of other quantiative aspects of its business. As for WTBA, the DDM model generated by StockNews estimates a return of positive 28.29% in comparison to its current price. To help understand and contextualize the model's evaluation of WTBA, investors may wish to consider are:

• Compared to other US stocks that pay a dividend, West Bancorporation Inc's dividend yield of 5.16% is in the top 21.66%.
• Beta, which compares volatilty of an individual stock to that of the S&P 500, is lower for WTBA than it is for 75.45% of other equities in the Financial Services sector that also issue dividends.
• Based on dividend growth rate, West Bancorporation Inc has been increasing its dividends at a faster rate than only 13.81% of US-listed dividend-issuing stocks we observed.

WTBA Dividends vs. Peers