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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Banking · CIK 0001212545
$76.67
+1.48% · live
Updated
$8.47B market value
From WESTERN ALLIANCE BANCORPORATION's FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026 · read the filing
WESTERN ALLIANCE BANCORPORATION takes deposits and lends money. It took in $135.8M last year, which makes it a smaller company. Of every dollar it sells, about 714 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by growth, with profitability and debt worth watching.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Financial health
Generally healthy, with a few things to watch.
From WESTERN ALLIANCE BANCORPORATION's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Revenue
$68.0M → $135.8M
Profit margin
1158.4% → 713.5%
Long-term debt
$2.42B → $1.39B
Profit
$787.7M → $969.0M
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 23, 2026
Improved: +99.7%
$68.0M to $135.8MCritical
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
How the latest move compares (quote live), and what was published around it
WAL rose 1.48% on the latest quote. The average Financials company tracked here moved +1.11%, and the S&P 500 −0.54%. That is in line with its sector and 2.0 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Opinions from 19 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 19 analysts publishing on this company, 4 say strong buy, 10 say buy and 5 say hold. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 714 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $969.0M last year. Note that operations still consumed cash despite the reported profit.
Yes, quickly. Sales grew 99.7% last year.
For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.09 in assets. Banks and insurers always carry high debt — that is how lending works — so this is normal for the industry and not comparable with other sectors.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Income
This company pays no dividend. It keeps its profits and reinvests them in the business instead, so any return would have to come from the share price.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $969.0M and generated -$2.68B of cash from operations.
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 23, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 23, 2026Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 28, 2024Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 28, 2024Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 28, 2024Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $135.8M | $68.0M | $98.6M | $44.1M | $37.6M | +99.7% |
| Interest expense | — | — | $1.70B | $475.5M | $109.9M | — |
| Income before tax | $1.21B | $991.2M | $933.6M | $1.32B | $1.12B | +21.8% |
| Net income | $969.0M | $787.7M | $722.4M | $1.06B | $899.2M | +23.0% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 713.5% | 1158.4% | 732.7% | 2397.5% | 2391.5% | −444.8 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $8.77 | $7.15 | $6.59 | $9.86 | $8.40 | +22.7% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WALWESTERN ALLIANCE BANCORPORATION · this page | 7.3/10 | 5/7 | 99.7% | 713.5% | 8.74x | 11.08x |
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Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Exercised stock options — 539 shares
Holds 463,717 shares after this filing.
Shares were sold back to the company — 539 shares at $74.35 ($40.1K)
Holds 463,178 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Published results
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Revenue +94.5% · Profit margin −407.8 pts · Long-term debt -49.1% — against Q2 FY2025
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 26 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 3 places. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from WAL's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 23, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 7 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 7.3 | 5/7 | 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 4.7 | 3/7 | 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 7.3 | 3/7 | 10-K, filed Feb 28, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 8.0 | 5/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 8.0 | 2/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 8.0 | 5/5 | 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
5 of 7 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. 2 could not be evaluated and are excluded from the total rather than counted as failures.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Deteriorated: −444.8 pts
1158.4% to 713.5%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: -42.5%
$2.42B to $1.39BCritical
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Improved: +23.0%
$787.7M to $969.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +22.7%
$7.15 to $8.77Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: -12.2%
$4.10B to $3.60BNotable
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Jul 31, 2026 — read it.
Improved: +94.5%
$23.5M to $45.7MCritical
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Deteriorated: −407.8 pts
980.4% to 572.6%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: -49.1%
$2.91B to $1.48BCritical
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Improved: +114.5%
$2.77B to $5.94BCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +13.6%
$230.4M to $261.7MNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +14.8%
$2.11 to $2.43Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: -1.1%
109.0M to 107.8MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Jul 31, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Improved: +43.7%
$182.1M to $261.7MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +301.7 pts
271.0% to 572.6%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +44.2%
$1.68 to $2.43Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: -32.0%
$67.2M to $45.7MSignificant
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Deteriorated: +36.2%
$1.09B to $1.48BSignificant
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Deteriorated: -30.6%
$8.55B to $5.94BSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
1 other measure barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 5.6% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 9.1x — investors pay $9.1 for each $1 of trailing profit.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Reported annual figures
| 7.3/10 |
| 6/7 |
| 3.1% |
| 169.9% |
| 10.90x |
| 11.39x |
| Median of peers | 7.3/10 | — | 3.1% | 169.9% | 10.90x | 11.39x |
|---|
Peers come from the company's industry classification. A difference describes the companies; it does not rank them.
Exercised stock options — 437 shares
Holds 463,615 shares after this filing.
Shares were sold back to the company — 437 shares at $74.35 ($32.5K)
Holds 463,178 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 595 shares
Holds 463,773 shares after this filing.
Shares were sold back to the company — 595 shares at $74.35 ($44.2K)
Holds 463,178 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 97 shares
Holds 65,514 shares after this filing.
Shares were sold back to the company — 97 shares at $74.35 ($7.2K)
Holds 65,417 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 69 shares
Holds 65,486 shares after this filing.
Shares were sold back to the company — 69 shares at $74.35 ($5.1K)
Holds 65,417 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 69 shares
Holds 65,486 shares after this filing.
Shares were sold back to the company — 69 shares at $74.35 ($5.1K)
Holds 65,417 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 123 shares
Holds 11,591 shares after this filing.
Shares were sold back to the company — 123 shares at $74.35 ($9.1K)
Holds 11,468 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 101 shares
Holds 10,433 shares after this filing.
Shares were sold back to the company — 101 shares at $74.35 ($7.5K)
Holds 10,332 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 74 shares
Holds 10,406 shares after this filing.
Shares were sold back to the company — 74 shares at $74.35 ($5.5K)
Holds 10,332 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 82 shares
Holds 10,414 shares after this filing.
Shares were sold back to the company — 82 shares at $74.35 ($6.1K)
Holds 10,332 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 58 shares
Holds 13,765 shares after this filing.
Shares were sold back to the company — 58 shares at $74.35 ($4.3K)
Holds 13,707 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 46 shares
Holds 13,753 shares after this filing.
Shares were sold back to the company — 46 shares at $74.35 ($3.4K)
Holds 13,707 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 64 shares
Holds 13,771 shares after this filing.
Shares were sold back to the company — 64 shares at $74.35 ($4.8K)
Holds 13,707 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 35 shares
Holds 1,915 shares after this filing.
Shares were sold back to the company — 35 shares at $74.35 ($2.6K)
Holds 1,880 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 22 shares
Holds 1,902 shares after this filing.
Shares were sold back to the company — 22 shares at $74.35 ($1.6K)
Holds 1,880 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 27 shares
Holds 1,907 shares after this filing.
Shares were sold back to the company — 27 shares at $74.35 ($2.0K)
Holds 1,880 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 285 shares
Holds 267,378 shares after this filing.
Shares were sold back to the company — 285 shares at $74.35 ($21.2K)
Holds 267,093 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 212 shares
Holds 267,305 shares after this filing.
Shares were sold back to the company — 212 shares at $74.35 ($15.8K)
Holds 267,093 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 229 shares
Holds 267,322 shares after this filing.
Shares were sold back to the company — 229 shares at $74.35 ($17.0K)
Holds 267,093 shares after this filing.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Reported another event
Published results
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Revenue +192.2% · Profit margin −594.7 pts · Cash +160.9% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingRecorded a material impairment · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Revenue +99.7% · Profit margin −444.8 pts · Long-term debt -42.5% — against FY2024
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingTook on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingSource: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-02-23. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
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