Bankwell Financial Group, Inc. (BWFG)

Neutral

Insufficient data to determine institutional momentum.

Data as of Q3 2026

FY2025 basis· bank

$69.65▲ 4.13%

EOD close · as of 2026-10-29

Market Cap

$555.2M

Enterprise Value

$555.2M

P/E

15.7×

P/S

196.5×

Revenue (FY)

$2.8M

Rev. growth

14.6%/yr

Gross margin

—

Net margin

1246%

ROIC

12%

Net debt / EBITDA

n/a for a bank

Revenue· FY2025$2.8M

Net Income· FY2025$35.2M

Free Cash Flow· FY2025$27.1M

Deep analysis

Valuation vs. its own history

Cheap or dear — against itself

Where each multiple sits in its own 14-yr range · 82th pct blended

P/E

15.6× now

5.5×24.5×

57th

mid

P/S

194.7× now

120.7×261.2×

88th

rich

P/B

1.8× now

0.6×1.4×

100th

rich

Dot = today · shaded = middle 50% · line = median. Lower percentile = cheaper vs its own 14-yr history.

Quality of the business

What backs the price

Is the profit real, and how strong is the balance sheet?

Cash flow includes customer money

Operating cash flow exceeds revenue, so it carries customer balances rather than earnings — the cash-flow checks below cannot be scored

not scored

Returns on capital

ROIC 12%

12%

Income statement

How a revenue dollar becomes profit

FY2025 · every deduction from revenue to net income

Returns

Why ROE is 11.7%

DuPont — the three levers

Net margin

1245.5%

profit / rev

Asset turns

0.00×

rev / assets

Leverage

11.14×

assets / year-end equity

ROE

11.7%

on year-end equity

ROE 12% against ROIC 12% — 0% of the return on equity comes from leverage and buybacks rather than from the operating business.

Leverage & liquidity

Debt structure

What the company owes vs. what it holds

Total Debt

—

Cash & Equivalents

—

Net Debt

—

Net debt / EBITDA—

This shows debt/cash structure and net leverage. The year-by-year maturity schedule is on the Debt & Leverage tab.

Operating leverage

How profit responds to sales

Latest year: profit growth vs revenue growth

Revenue Δ

+44.0%

Op. income Δ

—

Op. leverage

—

Operating leverage needs meaningful revenue change.

Operating leverage

Common-size income statement

Each line as % of revenue — the trend in color

% of revenue	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024	FY2025
Income Tax	341.3	462.0	177.3	834.3	984.5	698.6	181.3	470.5
Net Income	1599.4	1780.6	749.2	3048.9	3491.5	2250.6	497.7	1245.5

Green = margin-favorable vs the row's own range · red = unfavorable.

Track record · FY2016 → FY2025

How the ratios & debt developed

The metrics that matter, over time

ROE

12%

FY2025 · latest

Net margin

1246%

FY2025 · latest

ROIC

12%

FY2025 · latest

Gross margin

—

— · latest

—

Current ratio

—

— · latest

—

FCF margin

960%

FY2025 · latest

Free cash flow

$27.1M

FY2025 · latest

Institutional ownership: 20 holders · 0% of shares · 68th percentile crowding — Insufficient data to determine institutional momentum. (see the 13F tab)

A 30-second read on BWFG: price, valuation and headline fundamentals from SEC filings. The four questions at the top of the page are where the judgements live.

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Financials

$69.65▲ 4.13%

EOD close · as of 2026-10-29

Market Cap

$555.2M

Enterprise Value

$555.2M

Revenue → Profit Flow

How a revenue dollar becomes profit — FY2025

Dividends and buybacks are cash paid out, shown here against the same year's profit for scale — not funded from it.

Each value shows its share of revenue below it (common-size).

Line Item	FY2025	FY2024	FY2023	FY2022	FY2021	FY2020	FY2019	FY2018	FY2017	FY2016
Revenue	$2.8M 100.0%	$2.0M 100.0%	$1.6M 100.0%	$1.1M 100.0%	$872K 100.0%	$788K 100.0%	$1.0M 100.0%	$1.1M 100.0%	—	—
Interest Expense	—	—	$94.0M 5769.6%	$23.2M 2164.4%	$13.5M 1547.0%	$22.7M 2874.6%	$29.2M 2853.1%	$23.7M 2177.8%	$16.8M	$11.9M
Pretax Income	$48.5M 1716.0%	$13.3M 679.0%	$48.0M 2949.2%	$48.0M 4476.0%	$33.9M 3883.1%	$7.3M 926.5%	$22.9M 2242.6%	$21.2M 1940.6%	$25.1M	$18.3M
Income Tax Expense	$13.3M 470.5%	$3.6M 181.3%	$11.4M 698.6%	$10.6M 984.5%	$7.3M 834.3%	$1.4M 177.3%	$4.7M 462.0%	$3.7M 341.3%	$11.3M	$6.0M
Net Income	$35.2M 1245.5%	$9.8M 497.7%	$36.7M 2250.6%	$37.4M 3491.5%	$26.6M 3048.9%	$5.9M 749.2%	$18.2M 1780.6%	$17.4M 1599.4%	$13.8M	$12.3M
Per Share
EPS (Basic)	$4.49	$1.24	$4.71	$4.84	$3.38	$0.75	$2.32	$2.23	$1.80	$1.64
EPS (Diluted)	$4.45	$1.23	$4.67	$4.79	$3.36	$0.75	$2.31	$2.21	$1.78	$1.62
Weighted Avg Shares (Basic)	7.8M	7.7M	7.6M	7.6M	7.7M	7.7M	7.8M	7.7M	7.6M	7.4M
Weighted Avg Shares (Diluted)	7.8M	7.7M	7.6M	7.6M	7.8M	7.7M	7.8M	7.8M	7.7M	7.5M

Source: SEC EDGAR XBRL filings (annual, fiscal year). Quarterly flow items are derived from cumulative filings; balance-sheet figures are as-of each period end. Ratios and margins are computed, not reported.

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Is the business good?

Can't say

No positive operating income in the last three years, so there is no return on capital to compare against its cost.

Not enough history to draw the spread — it needs at least two fiscal years with a computable ROIC and a cost of capital.

Gross, operating and net margin by fiscal year
Fiscal year	Gross margin	Operating margin	Net margin
FY2018	not reported	not reported	1599.4%
FY2019	not reported	not reported	1780.6%
FY2020	not reported	not reported	749.2%
FY2021	not reported	not reported	3048.9%
FY2022	not reported	not reported	3491.5%
FY2023	not reported	not reported	2250.6%
FY2024	not reported	not reported	497.7%
FY2025	not reported	not reported	1245.5%

Shared scale — the distance between the lines is the cost structure▨ each line's own 8-year range

Return on equity (12%) and return on invested capital (12%) are within a couple of points in FY2025, so the headline return is the operating return — there is no meaningful leverage effect to strip out.

The other side

No material counter-signal in the checked set: ROIC vs WACC spread, 5-year spread history, gross margin trend, operating margin trend, net margin against 3 years ago, revenue growth, ROIC ex-goodwill gap.

Missing from our data, so excluded from this answer: positive EBIT.

Basis: FY2025Source: SEC EDGAR XBRL

Are the earnings real?

Can't say

Free cash flow of $27M exceeds revenue of $3M, so the cash flow statement is carrying customer balances rather than earnings. Cash conversion cannot be read here.

The cash bridge needs net income and operating cash flow for the same year — one of them has no value on file here.

The other side

Banks, brokers, insurers and payment companies run customer money through operating cash flow. Treat free cash flow, FCF yield and any DCF on this company as unreliable.

Missing from our data, so excluded from this answer: free cash flow attributable to the company.

Basis: FY2025Source: SEC EDGAR XBRL

Can it survive?

Can't say

Leverage is not measurable this way for a bank.

A stress curve needs EBIT and a reported interest expense — one of them is not available for this company.

The other side

Funded by deposits, so debt-weighted leverage and a WACC are not defined. Capital adequacy (CET1, LCR) is the right question and is not collected yet.

Missing from our data, so excluded from this answer: capital adequacy metrics for this archetype.

Basis: FY2025Source: SEC EDGAR XBRL

What's priced in?

Undemanding

At $69.65, free cash flow must compound 8.62%/yr for 10 years. It has done 30.73%/yr over 6 years after stock compensation.

Achieved free cash flow growth by year against the growth the price requires
Fiscal year	FCF growth	Price requires
FY2020	−166.1%	8.6%
FY2022	130.3%	8.6%
FY2023	−64.4%	8.6%
FY2024	−1.8%	8.6%
FY2025	−5.8%	8.6%

The rate the price requires sits inside the range this business has delivered — matched or beaten in 1 of 5 years. Shaded band is ±1σ of its own free-cash-flow growth.

Implied FCF growth

8.6%

for 10 years, discounted at 10.0% (published default — this company's cost of capital could not be computed)

Achieved FCF growth

30.7%

6-year CAGR, on the same basis as the requirement above

Required vs achieved

0.28×

above 1 means the price asks for more than the record

Each multiple against its own 14-year history

P/E

15.6× FY · 12.9× TTM

5.5×24.5×

57th

14 yrs

P/S

195× FY · 185× TTM

121×261×

88th

8 yrs

P/B

1.8× FY · 1.7× TTM

0.6×1.4×

100th

14 yrs

last fiscal year TTM medianshaded = middle half

The percentile ranks the FISCAL-YEAR point, because the distribution behind each strip is built from fiscal-year closes — ranking a TTM figure inside it would compare two different bases. TTM basis: TTM.

P / E

15.7× · med 14.5× · 12.6×–18.2×

P / S

not reported for this company

EV / EBITDA

not reported for this company

P / B

1.8× · med 1.2× · 1.1×–1.6×

BWFG cohort median p25–p7519 peersvalues clipped at p1/p99 before rankingeach row scaled to its own range

The other side

The cost of capital could not be computed for this company, so the requirement is solved at the published 10% default — a different rate would move it materially.

Basis: FY2025Source: SEC EDGAR XBRL

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BWFG vs. State Commercial Banks peers

Ranked against 19 sector peers with collected financials. Valuation from latest close × latest fiscal-year fundamentals; 13F conviction as of 2026-09-30.

Where it ranks

top thirdmiddlebottompeer median

ValuationCheaper than peers scores higher

P / E

BWFG 15.7× · med 14.5× · p25–p75 12.6×–18.2×

50th pct

P / S

BWFG — · med 3.3× · p25–p75 2.8×–3.5×

not enough peer data

—

EV / EBITDA

BWFG — · med 13.5×

not enough peer data

—

P / B

BWFG 1.8× · med 1.2× · p25–p75 1.1×–1.6×

15th pct

GrowthLatest fiscal-year revenue vs prior year

Revenue growth (YoY)

BWFG 44.0% · med 7.6% · p25–p75 2.3%–37.8%

80th pct

ProfitabilityMargins vs the sector

Gross margin

BWFG — · med 54.3%

not enough peer data

—

Operating margin

BWFG —

not enough peer data

—

Net margin

BWFG — · med 21.3% · p25–p75 17.5%–24.2%

not enough peer data

—

FCF margin

BWFG — · med 28.5% · p25–p75 17.9%–34.5%

not enough peer data

—

Returns on capitalHow hard the capital works

Return on equity

BWFG 11.7% · med 9.6% · p25–p75 7.0%–10.3%

90th pct

Return on invested capital

BWFG 11.7% · med 7.1% · p25–p75 5.0%–9.6%

90th pct

LeverageLess debt scores higher

Net debt / EBITDA

BWFG — · med 3.8×

not enough peer data

—

13F convictionInstitutional breadth & ownership

13F holders

BWFG 20 · med 49 · p25–p75 23–140

20th pct

Institutional ownership

BWFG 0.5% · med 1.3% · p25–p75 0.6%–2.6%

7th pct

Percentile is “goodness” within the peer set (100 = best). For valuation and leverage that means cheaper / less-levered ranks higher.

Peer table

Click a column to sort · latest FY

Company	Mkt cap ▼	P/E	EV/EBITDA	P/S	Rev gr	Gross	Net	ROE	ROIC	Net D/EBITDA	13F
STTSTATE STREET CORP	$47.4B	18.5×	—	3.4×	7.3%	—	21.1%	10.6%	10.6%	—	388
NTRSNORTHERN TRUST CORP	$31.6B	19.8×	—	3.9×	-2.5%	—	21.5%	13.4%	13.4%	—	272
CFGCITIZENS FINANCIAL GRO…	$27.7B	17.0×	—	3.4×	5.6%	—	22.2%	7.0%	4.9%	—	319
FCNCAFIRST CITIZENS BANCSHA…	$26.5B	14.4×	—	2.8×	-2.2%	—	23.1%	9.9%	3.8%	—	162
ALLYAlly Financial Inc.	$12.1B	16.7×	—	1.5×	-3.3%	—	10.8%	5.5%	2.5%	—	140
UCBUNITED COMMUNITY BANKS…	$4.5B	14.2×	—	4.2×	11.7%	—	30.9%	9.0%	8.5%	—	84
FBPFIRST BANCORP /PR/	$4.0B	12.4×	—	3.2×	2.4%	—	27.5%	17.5%	15.3%	—	67
FHBFIRST HAWAIIAN, INC.	$3.1B	11.7×	—	3.5×	8.9%	—	31.4%	10.0%	10.0%	—	74
BUSEFIRST BUSEY CORP /NV/	$2.4B	20.1×	—	3.4×	55.7%	—	18.8%	5.5%	5.5%	—	61
GABCGERMAN AMERICAN BANCOR…	$1.9B	16.1×	—	3.8×	37.8%	—	23.1%	9.7%	8.9%	—	39
PEBOPEOPLES BANCORP INC	$1.4B	13.0×	13.5×	16.1×	2.3%	—	—	8.8%	5.5%	3.8×	41
UVSPUNIVEST FINANCIAL Corp	$1.1B	12.6×	—	3.3×	9.6%	—	27.7%	9.6%	9.4%	—	49
FMNBFARMERS NATIONAL BANC …	$934M	10.9×	—	3.3×	3.9%	—	19.5%	11.2%	6.4%	—	33
WASHWASHINGTON TRUST BANCO…	$750M	14.5×	—	3.3×	128%	—	22.8%	9.6%	9.6%	—	39
ACNBACNB CORP	$667M	18.2×	—	3.5×	45.1%	—	19.3%	8.8%	5.0%	—	22
BWFGBankwell Financial Gro…	$555M	15.7×	—	—	44.0%	—	—	11.7%	11.7%	—	20
COFSCHOICEONE FINANCIAL SE…	$523M	17.4×	—	2.3×	63.6%	—	12.4%	6.1%	6.1%	—	23
CFFIC & F FINANCIAL CORP	$362M	13.4×	—	2.6×	10.6%	—	19.1%	10.3%	9.5%	—	11
MYFWFirst Western Financia…	$307M	23.5×	—	3.2×	7.6%	—	13.6%	5.0%	5.0%	—	17
MNSBMainStreet Bancshares,…	$153M	12.2×	—	1.1×	-1.6%	54.3%	11.5%	7.1%	7.1%	—	16

Peers = companies sharing BWFG's sector (State Commercial Banks) with collected SEC financials. Multiples use the most recent end-of-day close and latest fiscal-year fundamentals (trailing, not forward). Missing cells mean the peer never reported that line item, has no collected price, or has a non-positive denominator. Not investment advice.

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Open-market buys

102

$4.4m · 5 holders

Discretionary sales

$1.5m · 9 holders

10b5-1 plan sales

$0 · scheduled in advance

Filed late

0 of 56 filings

17 open-market purchases and 7 discretionary sales against the share price · hover a marker

2025-10-31$42.69 – $68.572026-10-23

Shares held by reporting insiders1 → 16 insiders reporting — no comparable change

2025-11-12 · 13,9392026-09-08 · 388,127 (16 insiders)

Last reported position per insider, carried forward. Steps can be a holding disclosed for the first time rather than a trade.

Date	Insider	What it was	Shares	Price	Value
2026-09-08	Dale Eric J Director	Open-market buyindirect	530	$67.11	$36k
2026-09-08	Dunne Jeffrey R Director	Open-market buyindirect	261	$67.11	$18k
2026-09-08	Drexler Blake S Director	Open-market buyindirect	116	$67.11	$8k

How this is measured

Every row is classified by what it MEANT, not by its SEC code. A code is not a meaning: code P (“purchase”) also covers dividend reinvestment and employee stock purchase plans, and code S (“sale”) also covers 10b5-1 plan sales scheduled months earlier and option exercises sold the same day.

Across 30 days of all filings, $5.08bn of insider selling contained $3.50bn of plan sales and $0.46bn of exercise-and-sell. Only 29% was discretionary. Reading an unclassified feed badly overstates how much insiders decided.

Buys and sales are counted separately and never netted. They are different decisions by different people; a company where one officer bought while another sold is not “neutral”.

The holding line carries each insider's last reported position forward, so it shows the total held rather than a sawtooth of whoever traded that day. It covers only insiders who filed in the window.

“Filed late” counts calendar days past the two-business-day deadline with five days' grace, so a Thursday or Friday trade crossing a weekend is never flagged. It describes the company's filing discipline, not the trade.

Insider activity is descriptive. Nothing here is investment advice.

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Bankwell Financial Group, Inc. (BWFG)

Deep analysis

Cheap or dear — against itself

What backs the price

How a revenue dollar becomes profit

Why ROE is 11.7%

Debt structure

How profit responds to sales

Common-size income statement

How the ratios & debt developed

Financials

Revenue → Profit Flow

Reverse DCF — what growth does the price assume?

Is the business good?

Are the earnings real?

Can it survive?

What's priced in?

Dividends & Returns

Is the payout covered?

Dividends + buybacks, per year

Dividend per share

Capital Allocation

Where the cash went

Reinvest vs. return cash

Return on reinvestment

Deployment per year

Debt & Leverage

Capital structure over time

Debt servicing

Liquidity

Short-term vs long-term debt

Performance vs. S&P 500

Hover the chart to read any quarter

Annual return vs the market

Cumulative lead over the S&P 500

Drawdown from peak · max -25%

BWFG vs. State Commercial Banks peers

Where it ranks

Peer table

Ownership Map

Buy / Sell Volume by Quarter

Institutional Trends (8 Quarters)

Institutional Holders

Institutional Holders

Buy / Sell Volume by Quarter

Institutional Trends (8 Quarters)

BWFG vs. State Commercial Banks peers

Where it ranks

Peer table

Dividends & Returns

Is the payout covered?

Dividends + buybacks, per year

Dividend per share

Capital Allocation

Where the cash went

Reinvest vs. return cash

Return on reinvestment

Deployment per year

Reverse DCF — what growth does the price assume?

Debt & Leverage

Capital structure over time

Debt servicing

Liquidity

Short-term vs long-term debt

Financials

Revenue → Profit Flow

Ownership Map

Deep analysis

Cheap or dear — against itself

What backs the price

How a revenue dollar becomes profit

Why ROE is 11.7%

Debt structure

How profit responds to sales

Common-size income statement

How the ratios & debt developed

Is the business good?

Are the earnings real?

Can it survive?

What's priced in?