Ranked #162 of 918 · scores higher than 82% of peers
Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the valuation score
91 peers with a valuation score of 80–89, including WAFD · Click a bar to see the companies
Why valuation scores 82?
Weighted metrics compared with all Banks & Insurance companies.
Mainly thanks to its book yield and earnings yield, which are stronger than most Banks & Insurance peers.
▲higher earnings for the price paid: stronger than 74% of peers. Earnings yield: 11.6% vs peer median 7.9%
▲a lower price relative to book value (P/B): stronger than 79% of peers. Book yield: 137.2% vs peer median 79.5%
Metric by metric
Position: dot = WAFD, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.
Metric
WAFD
Peer median
Better than
Position among peers
Weight
Earnings yieldHigher is better · 928 reported
10.6%
8.1%
74%
60%
EBITDA yieldHigher is better · 228 reported
Not reported
10.3%
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Context only
Free cash flow yieldHigher is better · 507 reported
10.3%
8.1%
64%
Context only
Book yieldHigher is better · 914 reported
123.7%
78.2%
79%
40%
Metrics with no weight are context only: for banks, brokers and insurers, free cash flow, EBITDA, gross margin and current ratio mostly reflect trading and funding flows, not the health of the business.
A metric that is not reported is left out of the score; the other weights are rescaled.
Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score
