profit from every $100 of sales.
$0$100
Bankwell Financial Group
$70.62+0.72% today
+61.4% in 1 year
1-year low $43.651-year high $73.27
Trading close to its highest price of the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2022 to 2025.
0%20% a year
You pay $15.99 for every $1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
Not measured for banks and insurers: deposits and policy reserves count as debt, so the usual debt test says nothing about them.
Money in, money out
What Bankwell Financial Group sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from $97.8 million in 2022 to $108 million in 2025, with $35.2 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Bankwell Financial Group handed back 28% of the cash it generated last year.
$6M
Free cash flow 2025$27M
Bought back its own shares$1M
Paid as dividends$6M
Cash vs. debt$215M vs. $180M
Bankwell Financial Group vs. similar companies
Bankwell Financial Group grows in the middle of these 5 and is priced in the middle for its profits.
| Company | Profit from $100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per $1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bankwell Financial Group | 16.0× · Fair price | ||
 China Merchants Bank | 7.8× · Cheap | ||
 DBS Group Holdings | 18.1× · Fair price | ||
 UniCredit | 11.6× · Cheap | ||
 HDFC Bank | 18.5× · Fair price |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Bankwell Financial Group's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of USD | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 98 | 99 | 87 | 108 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 37 | 37 | 10 | 35 | |
| 4.79 | 4.67 | 1.17 | 4.45 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 38.3% | 36.9% | 11.2% | 32.5% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of USD | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 3,252 | 3,215 | 3,268 | 3,360 |
| Cash | 345 | 268 | 294 | 215 |
| Total debt | 159 | 159 | 159 | 180 |
| Total liabilities | 3,014 | 2,950 | 2,998 | 3,058 |
| 238 | 266 | 271 | 301 | |
| 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 15.7% | 13.8% | 3.6% | 11.7% |
Cash flow
| In millions of USD | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83 | 32 | 30 | 28 | |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| 78 | 30 | 29 | 27 | |
| Dividends paid | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| 6 | 0 | 2 | 1 | |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
This is a bank or insurer, so cash-flow and debt ratios are left out: borrowing and lending is the business itself. Price to book and return on equity are the measures that matter here.
Valuation
- 16.0×
- 13.0×
- –
- 1.3×
- 5.2×
- 6.3%
- 1.6%
Profitability
- 32.5%
- 1.3%
- 7.4%
- 13.3%
- 1.2%
Growth
- +3.5%
- −2.4%
- +7.4%
- +0.1%
How it ranks in Financial Services
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Bottom 33%of 843
Top 41%of 730
Bottom 40%of 866
Bottom 31%of 862
Bottom 43%of 921
Recent earnings
Our results feed has not updated since May 21, 2026. Results reported after that are not in this table yet.
| Date | EPS | Expected | Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 2026 | 1.41 | 1.23 | +14.6% |
| Jan 29, 2026 | 1.15 | 1.20 | −4.2% |
| Oct 23, 2025 | 1.27 | 1.02 | +24.5% |
| Jul 28, 2025 | 1.15 | 0.87 | +32.2% |
| Apr 23, 2025 | 0.87 | 0.73 | +19.2% |
| Jan 22, 2025 | 0.32 | 0.65 | −50.8% |
| Oct 28, 2024 | 0.24 | -0.08 | +400.0% |
| Jul 24, 2024 | 0.14 | 0.10 | +40.0% |
1.6%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$16a year at today's yield, before tax
+7.4%2020 to 2025
Raised–not every year
Paid per share, each year
$0.05 in 2015 → $0.80 in 2025
How safe it looks
17.8% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 23.1%
News
No recent news on file.
Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
1/7Passes 1 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
52No pass
Benjamin Graham
78Pass
Philip Fisher
55No pass
Peter Lynch
32No pass
Joel Greenblatt
14No pass
Charlie Munger
56No pass
Terry Smith
47No pass
Questions about Bankwell Financial Group
Is Bankwell Financial Group a good stock to buy?
A strong, very profitable business at a fair price. 1 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Bankwell Financial Group AI analysis
What does Bankwell Financial Group do?
Bankwell Financial Group, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Bankwell Bank that provides various banking services for individual and commercial customers. It is in Banks - Regional.
Does Bankwell Financial Group pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 1.6% a year, about 18% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out $6.27 million in dividends.
Is Bankwell Financial Group stock halal?
No. Bankwell Financial Group does not pass our halal screen: its main business, banking, is not permitted. How we check
How has Bankwell Financial Group stock done over the past year?
Up 61.4% over the past twelve months, to $70.62. It traded between $43.65 and $73.27 and is 3.6% below its high.
Who are Bankwell Financial Group's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are China Merchants Bank, DBS Group Holdings, UniCredit and HDFC Bank. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Bankwell Financial Group's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 9, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.