Bankwell/$BWFG
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About Bankwell
Bankwell Financial Group Inc is a bank holding company, engaged in providing financial products and services. It offers products related to commercial lending, retail lending, depository services, and others. The bank's commercial lending products includes owner-occupied commercial real estate loans, commercial real estate investment loans, commercial loans to small and mid-sized businesses and real estate construction and development loans. The retail lending products include residential mortgage loans, home equity lines of credit, and consumer installment loans. Its depository products include checking, savings, money market, certificates of deposit, noninterest-bearing demand, and time deposits.
- Ticker
- $BWFG
- Sector
- Finance
- Primary listing
- NASDAQ
- Employees
- 167
- Headquarters
- New Canaan, United States
- Website
- www.mybankwell.com
Bankwell Metrics
BasicAdvanced
$519M
12.40
$5.39
0.58
$0.80
1.20%
Price and volume
Market cap
$519M
Beta
0.58
52-week high
$69.59
52-week low
$40.45
Average daily volume
64K
Dividend rate
$0.80
Financial strength
Dividend payout ratio (TTM)
14.67%
Profitability
Net profit margin (TTM)
35.54%
Operating margin (TTM)
50.30%
Effective tax rate (TTM)
26.57%
Revenue per employee (TTM)
$720,000
Management effectiveness
Return on assets (TTM)
1.28%
Return on equity (TTM)
14.13%
Valuation
Price to earnings (TTM)
12.399
Price to revenue (TTM)
4.311
Price to book
1.61
Price to tangible book (TTM)
1.62
Price to free cash flow (TTM)
15.077
Free cash flow yield (TTM)
6.63%
Free cash flow per share (TTM)
4.432
Dividend yield (TTM)
1.20%
Forward dividend yield
1.20%
Growth
Revenue change (TTM)
47.56%
Earnings per share change (TTM)
105.39%
3-year revenue growth (CAGR)
8.39%
3-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
5.82%
10-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
14.21%
10-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
18.22%
Bulls say / Bears say
Second-quarter 2026 net income increased to $12.4 million, or $1.52 per diluted share, while return on average assets reached 1.46%, return on average tangible common equity reached 15.61%, and the efficiency ratio improved to 47.5%. (SEC earnings release)
Funding quality is improving: core deposits grew $128 million sequentially, including $72 million of noninterest-bearing and NOW deposits, while wholesale funding fell $43.7 million and the wholesale ratio declined to 16.3%. (SEC earnings release)
Operating momentum led management to raise 2026 guidance for net interest income to $115–117 million and loan growth to 5%–7%; second-quarter net interest margin also expanded 30 basis points sequentially to 3.58%. (SEC earnings release)
Bankwell remains concentrated in commercial real estate, with significant exposure to Connecticut, New York and New Jersey; management warns that regional property-value declines could materially affect the company. (SEC filing)
Credit costs are showing some pressure: second-quarter 2026 provision expense was $1.2 million, versus a $0.4 million credit in the year-earlier quarter, while total past-due loans rose to 0.59% of loans from 0.31% at December 31, 2025. (SEC filing)
Noninterest income is relatively concentrated in SBA loan-sale gains: $2.4 million of the $3.3 million reported in the second quarter came from SBA gains, creating potential earnings volatility if origination or secondary-market conditions weaken. (SEC earnings release)
Data summarised monthly by Lightyear AI. Last updated on 11 Sept 2026.
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Funds containing Bankwell
Fund name | Fund size | $BWFG weighting |
|---|---|---|
SPDR Russell 2000 US Small Cap€R2US | €4.8B | 0.01% |
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