Company Analysis

FinWise Bancorp (FINW)

Nasdaq: FINW · State Commercial Banks · Murray, UT · filing with the SEC since 2021
Grade3.7
◀ Past 3.2● Present 3.8▶ Future 4.5

The grade of FinWise Bancorp

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
3.7/10
◀ Past3.240% of the headline
● Present3.835% of the headline
▶ Future4.525% 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?

3.2/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
1.2/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

4 warning events since 2021; the latest 2025-06-06.

weight 45% of this tense · 12th percentile among 165 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

FinWise Bancorp's filings since 2021 show 4 warning events of 3 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, 2 times, the latest 2022-10-21); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2025-06-06); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2023-08-15) (its current reports).

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

Track record

as filed
7.5/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+17.1% a year over 5 filed years; profitable in 5 of 5.

weight 22% of this tense · 75th percentile among 152 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

FinWise Bancorp's 5 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $49 million in fiscal 2021 to $92 million in fiscal 2025, up 17.1% a year; it rose in 4 of 4 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 5 of 5 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span17.1%top 30% 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
2.9/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 0.5% a year. 11% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 1 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 29th percentile among 157 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, FinWise Bancorp's diluted share count grew about 0.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 11% of its net income over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-03, buying about $53 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 46% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 12% 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?

3.8/1035% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
5.3/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 8%: 8¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 80%: owes 80¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 53rd percentile among 161 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, FinWise Bancorp earned about 8 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 80 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 2.5% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 1% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 32% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 28% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
3.7/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 37% of 155 in its family; net margin 17.4%.

weight 33% of this tense · 37th percentile among 155 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

FinWise Bancorp's standing among 155 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $92 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 11% by size; a net margin of 17.4% ranks in the bottom 29%; revenue growth of 20.9% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 28% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$92.5Mbottom 11% of its family
  • net margin17.4%bottom 29% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth20.9%top 28% of its family

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

Leadership

as filed
0.8/10

What are the people in charge doing?

bottom 8% of 150 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2026.

weight 22% of this tense · 8th percentile among 150 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

FinWise Bancorp's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Noone, James (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-07-29, 4 months (bottom 1% of its family); the 18 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 3.3 years (bottom 3%); 9 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 18 people in charge now (bottom 20%; 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 charge9 in three years among 18 peoplebottom 20% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed3.3 yearsbottom 3% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record4 monthsbottom 1% 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?

4.5/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
5.0/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 50% of 142 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 50th percentile among 142 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

FinWise Bancorp's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $163 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 16.7% of its assets as net cash, top 1% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -31% of revenue (bottom 1%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets16.7%top 1% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue-31.0%bottom 1% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
4.8/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 48% of 152 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 48th percentile among 152 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

FinWise Bancorp's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 20.9% a year over the last three filed years against 17.1% over all 5, speeding up (top 50% of its family); the newest year grew 24.4% (top 6%); capital spending grew -68.8% a year (bottom 1%) (its annual reports). FinWise Bancorp 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+3.8 points a yeartop 50% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth24.4%top 6% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-68.8%bottom 1% 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
3.8/10

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

bottom 38% of 150 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 38th percentile among 150 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

FinWise Bancorp's newest year against its own record: revenue of $92 million in fiscal 2025 came in 4.4% above the $89 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 9% of its family); net income of $16 million against a prior three-year average of $18 million (bottom 14%); a net margin of 17.4% against 30.7% before (bottom 8%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace4.4%top 9% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-13%bottom 14% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-13.3 pointsbottom 8% 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 FINW · research, not advice