Waterstone Financial, Inc.
How the company evolved, year by year. Revenue and debt come from the annual reports — for most companies, the 10-K filings with the SEC since 2009; dividends from the payments themselves.
The bars are a balance on the closing date; the lines are what happened during the year. Revenue above equity is ordinary, not an anomaly — it means the company turns its capital over more than once a year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▼ -1.4% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,273.93▲ +27.4%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 15 closed years. Each multiple uses that year’s closing price and that year’s reported numbers — not today’s. The range is set by the annual reports on record.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $16.55 | $13.44 | $14.20 | $17.24 | $21.86 | $18.82 | $19.03 | $16.76 | $17.05 | $18.40 | $14.10 | $13.15 | $10.12 | $7.11 | $1.72 | |
| P/E | 16.7x | 11.2x |
Seven formulas applied to what the company reported. None of them predicts a price — each answers what the stock would be worth if its assumption held. The assumption is printed next to every number, because it is the assumption that produces the result.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value — the two ceilings Graham proposed. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 0.0% a year plus a 3.1% dividend — Lynch adds the yield to the growth rate, so a payer is not priced like a company that returns nothing. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 13.4 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 16.7 across the years on record for this company itself. Answers whether it is cheap against its own past, which a whole sector trading low cannot flatter.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Financial Services, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OIMOneIM Acquisition Corp. | $10.12 | — | — | — | — | $365.53M |
| GIXGigCapital9 Corp. | $9.99 | — | 222.0x | — | — | $365.1M |
| SDHISiddhi Acquisition Corp (Cayman Islands) | $10.51 | 26.3x | 1.4x | — | — | $366.15M |
| NECBNorthEast Community Bancorp, Inc. | $26.43 |
Waterstone Financial, Inc. operates as a bank holding company for WaterStone Bank SSB that provides various financial services to customers in southeastern Wisconsin, the United States. It operates in two segments, Community Banking and Mortgage Banking. The Community Banking segment offers consumer and business banking products and services, such as deposit and transactional solutions, such as checking, credit, debit and pre-paid cards, online banking and bill pay, and money transfer services; investable funds solutions, such as savings, money market deposits, individual retirement accounts, and certificates of deposit; residential mortgages, home equity loans and lines of credit, personal and installment loans, real estate financing, business loans, and business lines of credit; and fixed and variable annuities, insurance products, and trust and investment management accounts. It also provides transaction deposits, interest bearing transaction accounts, demand deposits, non-interest-bearing demand accounts, and time deposits; secured and unsecured lines; commercial real estate construction loans; term loans for working capital, inventory, and general corporate use; and personal term loans and investment services. The Mortgage Banking segment offers residential mortgage loans for the purpose of sale in the secondary market. It also invests in a portfolio of securities comprising mortgage-backed securities, government-sponsored and private-label enterprise bonds, collateralized mortgage obligations, municipal obligations, and other debt securities. The company was formerly known as Wauwatosa Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Waterstone Financial, Inc. in August 2008. Waterstone Financial, Inc. was founded in 1921 and is based in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.
Company description provided by Yahoo Finance.
| 13.3x |
| 30.9x |
| 19.4x |
| 7.4x |
| 5.7x |
| 13.9x |
| 15.1x |
| 18.3x |
| 19.8x |
| 25.2x |
| 34.6x |
| 23.5x |
| 7.0x |
| — |
| P/S | 2.3x | 2.1x | 1.9x | 2.2x | 2.3x | 2.0x | 1.6x | — | 2.7x | 2.9x | 3.2x | 2.9x | 3.6x | 2.5x | 1.8x | 0.7x |
| P/B | 1.1x | 0.9x | 0.8x | 0.8x | 1.0x | 1.2x | 1.1x | — | 1.2x | 1.2x | 1.3x | 1.1x | 1.0x | 1.5x | 1.2x | 0.4x |
| EPS | $1.48 | $1.01 | $0.46 | $0.89 | $2.96 | $3.30 | $1.37 | $1.11 | $0.93 | $0.93 | $0.56 | $0.38 | $0.43 | $1.02 | -$0.22 |
| Dividend yield | 5.22% | 3.63% | 4.46% | 5.28% | 7.54% | 5.95% | 6.80% | 5.15% | 5.85% | 5.75% | 1.41% | 1.42% | 1.14% | — | — | — |
| Payout | 51.66% | 40.54% | 59.41% | 163.04% | 146.07% | 43.92% | 38.79% | 71.53% | 88.29% | 105.38% | 27.96% | 35.71% | 39.47% | — | — | — |
| Profit margin | 14.82% | 18.60% | 13.79% | 7.13% | 11.99% | 27.36% | 27.27% | 19.62% | 17.84% | 14.82% | 15.04% | 11.56% | 10.11% | 11.58% | 26.22% | -8.33% |
| ROE | 6.30% | 7.56% | 5.51% | 2.72% | 5.26% | 16.36% | 19.64% | 9.12% | 7.69% | 6.30% | 6.22% | 4.23% | 2.83% | 6.86% | 17.23% | -4.49% |
Median, not average: a single year of near-zero profit produces a P/E of 400 and would drag an average on its own. P/E years above 200x are left out, the same cut the fair price uses — so this median matches the “its own history” method below. Price and EPS have no median: they are series that grow.
Dividend growing 6.1% a year against a 7.6% required return, taken from the stock’s beta. The only method anchored on what the company pays rather than what it reports.
Not the average of the seven numbers above. Four of the seven start from the same earnings per share — Graham, Lynch, sector multiples and its own history — so averaging all seven would let one input count four times and drown out the others. Instead each family produces one number, and the fair price is the average of the families that answered. A family with two working formulas contributes their average, not two votes.
5 methods answered, across 2 families.
Every formula reads the same reported statements and they can be wrong together. The margin is room for that.
+56.9% from the average.
These are models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. Change one assumption and the number changes with it — that is a property of valuation, not a defect of this page.
| 8.5x |
| 0.9x |
| 3.78% |
| 12.13% |
| $363.84M |
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