WABC Stock Analysis: Westamerica Bancorporation | NASDAQ
Banks - Regional | NASDAQ, USA | Market Cap: 1.411m USD | 12M Return: 20.4% | Charts, Fundamentals & Technical Analysis
Avg Turnover: 12.6M
EPS Trend: -95.4%
Qual. Beats: 5
Rev. Trend: -89.2%
Qual. Beats: 2
Warnings
No concerns identified
Tailwinds
Seasonality 10.5 years of data
How good or bad each month usually is (without trend). The score below shows how much you can trust it: 0 = pure chance, >40 gets interesting and >55 is strong.
Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC) is a bank holding company that operates Westamerica Bank, providing traditional banking products and services to individual and commercial customers in the United States. The company accepts deposits from local businesses and professionals, along with retail savings and checking accounts and certificates of deposit. Its lending activities span commercial, commercial real estate, residential real estate, real estate construction, consumer installment, and indirect automobile loans, with a customer base centered on small businesses, professionals, and consumers.
Founded in 1884 and headquartered in San Rafael, California, the company was originally known as Independent Bankshares Corporation before adopting its current name in 1983. As a regional bank holding company listed on NASDAQ, Westamerica operates under a community banking model that emphasizes relationship-based lending and deposit gathering within a defined local footprint, and its banking subsidiary is an FDIC-insured institution subject to Federal Reserve oversight.
- Net interest margin compresses as Fed cuts rates
- Commercial real estate loan losses pressure credit quality
- Deposit costs rise amid competition for sticky funding
| Net Income: 112.5m TTM > 0 and > 6% of Revenue |
| FCF/TA: 0.02 > 0.02 and ΔFCF/TA -0.21 > 1.0 |
| NWC/Revenue: -1.70k% < 20% (prev -1.01k%; Δ -693.4% < -1%) |
| CFO/TA 0.02 > 3% & CFO 119.2m > Net Income 112.5m |
| Net Debt (-210.8m) to EBITDA (157.5m): -1.34 < 3 |
| Current Ratio: 0.09 > 1.5 & < 3 |
| Outstanding Shares: last quarter (24.3m) vs 12m ago -8.77% < -2% |
| Gross Margin: error (current vs previous; cannot be calculated due to missing/invalid data or negative margin) |
| Asset Turnover: 4.52% > 50% (prev 5.06%; Δ -0.54% > 0%) |
| Interest Coverage Ratio: 11.12 > 6 (EBIT TTM 151.3m / Interest Expense TTM 13.6m) |
| A: -0.77 (Total Current Assets 434.0m - Total Current Liabilities 4.98b) / Total Assets 5.86b |
| B: 0.10 (Retained Earnings 567.6m / Total Assets 5.86b) |
| C: 0.03 (EBIT TTM 151.3m / Avg Total Assets 5.92b) |
| D: 0.18 (Book Value of Equity 882.7m / Total Liabilities 4.98b) |
| Altman-Z'' = -4.41 = D |
| DSRI: 0.99 (Receivables 36.8m/42.1m, Revenue 267.4m/302.1m) |
| GMI: 0.99 (GM 94.29% / 95.02%) |
| AQI: 1.38 (AQ_t 0.92 / AQ_t-1 0.67) |
| SGI: 0.89 (Revenue 267.4m / 302.1m) |
| TATA: -0.00 (NI 112.5m - CFO 119.2m) / TA 5.86b) |
| Beneish M = -2.90 (Cap -4..+1) = A |
As of July 08, 2026, the stock is trading at USD 58.77 with a total of 125,626 shares traded. Over the past week, the price has changed by +0.50%, over one month by +4.02%, over three months by +12.67% and over the past year by +20.35%.
Current recommended Stop Loss: 57.30 (which is 2.5% or 1.3 ATR below the current price).
Westamerica Bancorporation has received a consensus analysts rating of 3.00. Therefore, it is recommended to hold WABC.
- StrongBuy: 0
- Buy: 0
- Hold: 2
- Sell: 0
- StrongSell: 0
| Analysts Target Price | 58 | -1.3% |
P/E Trailing = 13.3808
P/E Forward = 21.097
P/S = 5.5048
P/B = 1.5987
P/EG = 4.6222
Revenue TTM = 267.4m USD
EBIT TTM = 151.3m USD
EBITDA TTM = 157.5m USD
Long Term Debt = 16.3m USD (estimated: total debt 165.5m - short term 149.2m)
Short Term Debt = 149.2m USD (from shortTermDebt, last quarter)
Debt = 186.5m USD (from shortLongTermDebtTotal, last quarter) + Leases 21.0m
Net Debt = -210.8m USD (calculated: Debt 186.5m - CCE 397.3m)
Enterprise Value = 1.20b USD (1.41b + Debt 186.5m - CCE 397.3m)
Interest Coverage Ratio = 11.12 (Ebit TTM 151.3m / Interest Expense TTM 13.6m)
EV/FCF = 10.38x (Enterprise Value 1.20b / FCF TTM 115.7m)
FCF Yield = 9.64% (FCF TTM 115.7m / Enterprise Value 1.20b)
FCF Margin = 43.26% (FCF TTM 115.7m / Revenue TTM 267.4m)
Net Margin = 42.07% (Net Income TTM 112.5m / Revenue TTM 267.4m)
Gross Margin = unknown ((Revenue TTM 267.4m - Cost of Revenue TTM 13.3m) / Revenue TTM)
Tobins Q-Ratio = 0.20 (Enterprise Value 1.20b / Total Assets 5.86b)
Interest Expense / Debt = 7.30% (Interest Expense 13.6m / Debt 186.5m)
Taxrate = 25.66% (38.8m / 151.3m)
NOPAT = 112.5m (EBIT 151.3m * (1 - 25.66%))
Current Ratio = 0.09 (Total Current Assets 434.0m / Total Current Liabilities 4.98b)
Debt / Equity = 0.21 (Debt 186.5m / totalStockholderEquity, last quarter 882.7m)
Debt / EBITDA = -1.34 (Net Debt -210.8m / EBITDA 157.5m)
Debt / FCF = -1.82 (Net Debt -210.8m / FCF TTM 115.7m)
Total Stockholder Equity = 917.4m (last 4 quarters mean from totalStockholderEquity)
RoA = 1.90% (Net Income 112.5m / Total Assets 5.86b)
RoE = 12.26% (Net Income TTM 112.5m / Total Stockholder Equity 917.4m)
RoCE = 16.21% (EBIT 151.3m / Capital Employed (Equity 917.4m + L.T.Debt 16.3m))
RoIC = 1.92% (NOPAT 112.5m / Invested Capital 5.85b)
WACC = 7.90% (E(1.41b)/V(1.60b) * Re(8.23%) + D(186.5m)/V(1.60b) * Rd(7.30%) * (1-Tc(0.26)))
Discount Rate = 8.23% (= CAPM, Blume Beta Adj.)
Shares (quarterly) Correlation: -55.56 | Cagr: -4.03%
[DCF] Terminal Value 73.80% ; FCFF base≈121.4m ; Y1≈110.6m ; Y5≈96.5m
[DCF] Fair Price = 74.32 (EV 1.53b - Net Debt -210.8m = Equity 1.75b / Shares 23.5m; r=8.35% [WACC [floored]]; 5y FCF grow -10.97% → 2.50% )
EPS Correlation: -95.35 | EPS CAGR: -11.58% | SUE: 2.59 | # QB: 5
Revenue Correlation: -89.20 | Revenue CAGR: -7.19% | SUE: 4.0 | # QB: 2
EPS current Quarter (2026-06-30): EPS=1.10 | Chg30d=+4.27% | Revisions=+25% | Analysts=2
EPS next Quarter (2026-09-30): EPS=1.10 | Chg30d=+4.25% | Revisions=+40% | Analysts=2
EPS current Year (2026-12-31): EPS=4.45 | Chg30d=+4.47% | Revisions=+40% | GrowthEPS=-1.7% | GrowthRev=-4.5%
EPS next Year (2027-12-31): EPS=4.29 | Chg30d=+2.26% | Revisions=+25% | GrowthEPS=-3.4% | GrowthRev=-3.5%
[Analyst] Revisions Ratio: +67% (up=6, down=0)