Willis Lease Finance Corp
Willis Lease Finance Corp (WLFC) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Rental & Leasing Services, part of the Industrials sector. It is headquartered in Coconut Creek, United States and has 467 employees. The company is worth $852.11M and trades at 10.2x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 24.3x. Revenue was $730.24M in fiscal 2025, up 28.3% from the year before. Net income was $113.76M. The share price is 50.6% below its 52-week high of $81.54. It pays a dividend yielding 1.32%. 6 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Renaissance Technologies, at $45.23M. In that quarter, 3 of them opened or added to the position and 1 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +229.4% over 5Y.
today you would have $2,879.46▲ +187.9%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $45.21 | $69.18 | $16.29 | $19.67 | $12.55 | $10.15 | $19.64 | $11.53 | $8.32 | $8.53 | $6.70 | $7.30 | $5.79 | $4.77 | $3.98 | $4.34 | $5.00 | |
| P/E |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 25.0% a year plus a 1.3% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 24.3 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 9.3 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 15.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 13.2x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Industrials, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AEBIAebi Schmidt Holding AG | $11.09 | 35.8x | 1.0x | 0.90% | 3.57% | $860.62M |
| EVLVEvolv Technologies Holdings, Inc. | $4.59 | — | 7.0x | 0.00% | -4.94% | $825.61M |
| CRESYCresud Inc | $11.52 | 6.0x | 0.8x | 5.47% | 12.18% | $817.06M |
| RHLDResolute Holdings Management, Inc. |
| 9.3x |
| 8.8x |
| 13.5x |
| 7.8x |
| 178.8x |
| — |
| 29.0x |
| 5.6x |
| 5.2x |
| 2.6x |
| 12.5x |
| 24.8x |
| 24.9x |
| 9.2x |
| — |
| 9.3x |
| 13.6x |
| 7.0x |
| P/S | 0.8x | 1.3x | 2.4x | 0.7x | 1.2x | 0.8x | 0.6x | 1.0x | 0.6x | 0.6x | 0.8x | 0.8x | 1.0x | 0.9x | 0.8x | 0.7x | 0.8x | 0.9x |
| P/B | 0.7x | 1.4x | 2.5x | 0.7x | 0.9x | 0.6x | 0.5x | 1.1x | 0.7x | 0.6x | 0.8x | 0.7x | 0.8x | 0.7x | 0.6x | 0.5x | 0.5x | 0.6x |
| EPS | $5.13 | $5.11 | $2.08 | $0.11 | $0.00 | $0.35 | $3.50 | $2.20 | $3.23 | $0.68 | $0.27 | $0.29 | $0.63 | -$0.14 | $0.43 | $0.32 | $0.71 |
| Dividend yield | — | 0.85% | 0.72% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Payout | — | 7.47% | 9.78% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Profit margin | 9.26% | 15.58% | 19.08% | 10.46% | 1.74% | 1.22% | 3.38% | 16.36% | 12.41% | 22.62% | 6.79% | 3.26% | 4.13% | 9.86% | 1.04% | 9.26% | 8.13% | 14.87% |
| ROE | 7.17% | 17.18% | 19.77% | 9.97% | 1.34% | 0.89% | 2.68% | 19.10% | 15.07% | 24.01% | 7.17% | 3.09% | 3.31% | 7.35% | 0.77% | 6.14% | 5.32% | 10.13% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+207.7% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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| 20.2x |
| — |
| 0.00% |
| 2.30% |
| $888.85M |
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