Company Analysis

Bridgewater Bancshares, Inc. (BWB)

Nasdaq: BWB · State Commercial Banks · St. Louis Park, MN · filing with the SEC since 2005
Grade4.9
◀ Past 5.3● Present 4.6▶ Future 4.8

The grade of Bridgewater Bancshares, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.9/10
◀ Past5.340% of the headline
● Present4.635% of the headline
▶ Future4.825% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

5.3/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
4.9/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

2 warning events since 2017; the latest 2023-03-07.

weight 45% of this tense · 49th percentile among 165 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Bridgewater Bancshares, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 2 warning events: an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, 2 times, the latest 2023-03-07) (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
7.8/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+21% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 22% of this tense · 78th percentile among 152 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Bridgewater Bancshares, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $51 million in fiscal 2016 to $282 million in fiscal 2025, up 21% a year; it rose in 9 of 9 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span21.0%top 17% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 13% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 44% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak0.0%top 13% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
4.1/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 0.6% a year. 11% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 44 sales, 1 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 41st percentile among 157 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Bridgewater Bancshares, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 0.6% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 11% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 44 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-06, buying about $4 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 30% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 13% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

4.6/1035% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
3.5/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 9%: 9¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 90%: owes 90¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 35th percentile among 161 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Bridgewater Bancshares, Inc. earned about 9 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 90 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.8% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 30% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 39% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 36% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
4.3/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 43% of 155 in its family; net margin 16.4%.

weight 33% of this tense · 43rd percentile among 155 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Bridgewater Bancshares, Inc.'s standing among 155 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $282 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 45% by size; a net margin of 16.4% ranks in the bottom 23%; revenue growth of 19.9% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 37% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$282Mbottom 45% of its family
  • net margin16.4%bottom 23% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth19.9%top 37% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
7.2/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 28% of 150 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2018.

weight 22% of this tense · 72nd percentile among 150 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Bridgewater Bancshares, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Baack, Jerry J. (CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2018-03-13, 8.7 years (top 39% of its family); the 17 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 8.7 years (top 32%); 2 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 17 people in charge now (top 14%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge2 in three years among 17 peopletop 14% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed8.7 yearstop 32% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record8.7 yearstop 39% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.8/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
2.5/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 25% of 142 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 25th percentile among 142 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Bridgewater Bancshares, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $124 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 2.3% of its assets as net cash, bottom 41% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 7.8% of revenue (bottom 9%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets2.3%bottom 41% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue7.8%bottom 9% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
6.4/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 36% of 152 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 64th percentile among 152 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Bridgewater Bancshares, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 19.9% a year over the last three filed years against 21% over all 10, slowing (bottom 19% of its family); the newest year grew 14.6% (top 13%); capital spending grew 53% a year (top 13%) (its annual reports). Bridgewater Bancshares, Inc. tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-1.2 points a yearbottom 19% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth14.6%top 13% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending53.0%top 13% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
5.3/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

top 46% of 150 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 54th percentile among 150 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Bridgewater Bancshares, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $282 million in fiscal 2025 came in 6.5% below the $301 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 19% of its family); net income of $46 million against a prior three-year average of $42 million (bottom 43%); a net margin of 16.4% against 21.3% before (bottom 37%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-6.5%top 19% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+10%bottom 43% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-5.0 pointsbottom 37% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton BWB · research, not advice