West Bancorporation (WTBA)

• Market cap: $338M
• 1 day: -1.47%
• 5 days: -3.42%
• 1 month: -9.76%
• 3 months: -14.27%
• 6 months: 3.83%
• Year to date: -6.17%
• 1 year: 16.90%
• 5 years: 18.28%
• 10 years: 12.38%
• Sector: Financials
• Industry: State Commercial Banks

About: West Bancorp Inc is a United States-based company that offers a full range of deposit services, including checking, savings and money market accounts and time certificates of deposit. West Bank also offers online banking, mobile banking, and treasury management services, which help to meet the banking needs of its customers. Treasury management services offered to business customers include cash management, client-generated automated clearing house transactions, remote deposit, and fraud protection services. Also offered are merchant credit card processing and corporate credit cards. The bank operates only in the United States of America region.

Employees: 189

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

160% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 13 | Existing positions closed: 5

70% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 34 | Existing positions reduced: 20

15% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $145M [Q3] → $167M (+$22.2M) [Q4]

10% more funds holding

Funds holding: 78 [Q3] → 86 (+8) [Q4]

0.6% more ownership

Funds ownership: 45.25% [Q3] → 45.85% (+0.6%) [Q4]

0% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 2 [Q3] → 2 (+0) [Q4]

41% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $13K | Put options by funds: $22K

Research analyst outlook

1 Wall Street Analyst provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $23 15% upside
• Avg. target: $23 15% upside
• High target: $23 15% upside

1 analyst rating

• positive: 0 0%
• neutral: 1 100%
• negative: 0 0%

Piper Sandler Andrew Liesch 64% 1-year accuracy 14 / 22 met price target

15% upside $23

Neutral Maintained

27 Jan 2025