Bankwell Financial Group is a banks - regional business based in the US. Bankwell Financial Group shares (BWFG) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $33.78 – an increase of 0.33% over the previous week. Bankwell Financial Group employs 145 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $69.1 million.
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| Latest market close | $33.78 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $22.34 - $35.02 |
| 50-day moving average | $30.23 |
| 200-day moving average | $29.92 |
| Wall St. target price | $42.00 |
| PE ratio | 21.2654 |
| Dividend yield | $0.8 (2.32%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $1.62 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $34.45 from 2025-05-02
| 1 week (2025-04-28) | 4.62% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-04-04) | 23.08% |
| 3 months (2025-02-06) | 5.48% |
| 6 months (2024-11-06) | 6.36% |
| 1 year (2024-05-06) | 43.72% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-05-05) | 61.84% |
| 3 years (2022-05-05) | 5.31% |
| 5 years (2020-05-05) | 179.53% |
Valuing Bankwell Financial Group stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Bankwell Financial Group's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Bankwell Financial Group's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 21x. In other words, Bankwell Financial Group shares trade at around 21x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
| Revenue TTM | $69.1 million |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 42.18% |
| Gross profit TTM | $69.1 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 0.41% |
| Return on equity TTM | 4.75% |
| Profit margin | 18.66% |
| Book value | $35.91 |
| Market Capitalization | $271.7 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 50.96% of net profits
Recently Bankwell Financial Group has paid out, on average, around 100% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Bankwell Financial Group shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Bankwell Financial Group's case, that would currently equate to about $0.8 per share.
Bankwell Financial Group's payout ratio would broadly be considered high, and as such this stock could appeal to those looking to generate an income. Bear in mind however that companies should normally also look to re-invest a decent amount of net profits to ensure future growth.
Bankwell Financial Group's most recent dividend payout was on 19 May 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 8 May 2025 (the "ex-dividend date").
Over the last 12 months, Bankwell Financial Group's shares have ranged in value from as little as $22.336 up to $35.023. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Bankwell Financial Group's is 0.589. This would suggest that Bankwell Financial Group's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Bankwell Financial Group, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Bankwell Bank that provides various banking services for individual and commercial customers. It offers various traditional depository products, including checking, savings, money market, and certificates of deposit. The company also provides first mortgage loans secured by one-to-four family owner occupied residential properties for personal use; home equity loans and home equity lines of credit secured by owner occupied one-to-four family residential properties; loans secured by commercial real estate, multi-family dwellings, owner-occupied commercial real estate, and investor-owned one-to-four family dwellings; commercial construction loans for commercial development projects, including apartment buildings and condominiums, as well as office buildings, retail, and other income producing properties; land loans; commercial business loans secured by assignments of corporate assets and personal guarantees of the business owners; loans to finance insurance premiums; overdraft lines of credit; and personal loans. It operates branches in New Canaan, Stamford, Fairfield, Westport, Darien, Norwalk, and Hamden, Connecticut. The company was formerly known as BNC Financial Group, Inc. and changed its name to Bankwell Financial Group, Inc.
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