WAFD INC (WAFD)
NASDAQ · Banking & Credit · National Commercial Banks
- Price
- $31.51
- Day
- -2.42%
- Market cap
- $2.33B
- P/E
- 9.1
Close 2026-09-22.
The company
General WaFd Bank, a federally-insured Washington state chartered commercial bank formerly known as Washington Federal Bank (the "Bank" or "WaFd Bank"), was founded on April 24, 1917 in Ballard, Washington and is engaged primarily in providing lending, depository, insurance and other banking services to consumers, small, mid-sized and large businesses, and owners and developers of commercial real estate. Effective September 25, 2025, the Bank formally changed its name from Washington Federal Bank to WaFd Bank by filing its Second Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation with the Washington Secretary of State. WaFd, Inc., a Washington corporation, was formed as the Bank’s holding company in November, 1994. As used throughout this document, the terms "WaFd," the "Company" or "we" or "us" and "our" refer to WaFd, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries, and the term "Bank" or "WaFd Bank" refers to its bank operating subsidiary. The Company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. On November 9, 1982 the Company listed and began trading on the NASDAQ. Profitable operations have been recorded every year since going public. As of September 30, 2025 , the stock traded at 82 times its original 1982 offering price, has paid 170 consecutive quarterly cash dividends and has returned 14,253% total shareholder return to those who invested 43 years ago. On February 29, 2024, WaFd, Inc. closed its merger with Luther Burbank Corporation ("Luther Burbank" or "LBC"), a California corporation, effective as of 12:00am on March 1, 2024.
From Item 1: General.
Institutional holders
Largest positions reported on Form 13F for the quarter ended 2026-06-30, by value.
- BlackRock, Inc. — $300.5M
- DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP — $183.24M
- VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC — $182.45M
- STATE STREET CORP — $166.75M
- VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC — $127.56M
- FULLER & THALER ASSET MANAGEMENT, INC. — $120.57M
- ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN L.P. — $119.56M
- AMERICAN CENTURY COMPANIES INC — $92.72M
Insider trades
Open-market buys and sales filed on Form 4, newest first. Grants, option exercises and tax withholding are left out.
- Robison Kim E (EVP & Chief Operations Officer) sold 22,000 shares at $35.28 on 2026-04-24
- Cooper Cathy E (EVP & Chief Consumer Banker) sold 5,300 shares at $33.77 on 2026-02-06
- BEARDALL BRENT J (President & CEO) bought 3,000 shares at $16.85 on 2025-12-03
- BEARDALL BRENT J (President & CEO) bought 3,000 shares at $16.55 on 2025-11-26
- Singleton Sean (Director) sold 1,004 shares at $31.71 on 2025-09-17
- Mauer Ryan (EVP & Chief Credit Officer) sold 12,132 shares at $33.33 on 2024-11-04
Recent filings
- DEFA14A — 2026-09-18
- DEFA14A — 2026-09-11
- DEFA14A — 2026-09-10
- 8-K — 2026-09-08
- DEFA14A — 2026-09-08
- DEFA14A — 2026-09-08
- DEFA14A — 2026-09-08
- DEFA14A — 2026-09-08
- DEFA14A — 2026-09-08
- DEFA14A — 2026-09-08