With 0.84 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.51 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $28.985 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $28.415. The 52-week range on WAFD shows that it touched its highest point at $38.62 and its lowest point at $23.75 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $32.25. With its current market cap of 2.31 billion, WAFD has annualized dividend of $1.06 while the current yield stands at 3.67%. WAFD paid its most recent dividend on 1747958400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1747958400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.88.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of WAFD was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.93%, but this was down by -6.54% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 0.94% while six-month performance fell -3.64%. The stock lost -10.45% in the past year, while it has lost -19.45% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WAFD yields 2.62 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.12. For the next quarter, that number is 0.77. This implies an EPS growth rate of 7.30% for this year and 16.22% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 4.06% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -0.91%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 79.13 million WAFD shares are outstanding with a float of 78.98 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-07-15, short shares totaled 2.27 million, which was 287.0 higher than short shares on 1749772800. In addition to Mr. Brent J. Beardall CPA as the firm’s President, CEO & Vice Chairman, Ms. Kelli J. Holz CPA serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.84063005 of WAFD’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for WAFD since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With WAFD analysts setting a high price target of 33.0 and a low target of 31.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 32.25. Based on these targets, WAFD could surge 14.31% to reach the target high and rise by 7.38% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 11.71% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.49328 being high and $2.46954 being low. For WAFD, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.485. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.78 and the low estimate is $0.75. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.77.
