Company Analysis

Heritage Financial Corporation (HFWA)

Nasdaq: HFWA · Savings Institutions, Not Federally Chartered · Olympia, WA · filing with the SEC since 1997
Grade6.0
◀ Past 6.8● Present 5.8▶ Future 5.1

The grade of Heritage Financial Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
6.0/10
◀ Past6.840% of the headline
● Present5.835% of the headline
▶ Future5.125% 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?

6.8/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
8.7/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 45% of this tense · 87th percentile among 23 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Heritage Financial Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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

Track record

as filed
3.7/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+9.5% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 22% of this tense · 37th percentile among 19 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Heritage Financial Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $139 million in fiscal 2016 to $314 million in fiscal 2025, up 9.5% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 2% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span9.5%bottom 8% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 29% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 29% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak2.3%bottom 39% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
6.2/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 1.0% a year. 48% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 12 sales, 1 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 62nd percentile among 20 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Heritage Financial Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 1.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 48% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 12 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-05, buying about $426 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 45% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 31% 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?

5.8/1035% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
6.0/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 7%: 7¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 87%: owes 87¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 60th percentile among 23 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Heritage Financial Corporation earned about 7 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 87 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.3% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 37% of its family
  • return on equitytop 37% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 47% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
6.0/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 40% of 22 in its family; net margin 21.5%.

weight 33% of this tense · 60th percentile among 22 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Heritage Financial Corporation's standing among 22 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $314 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 16% by size; a net margin of 21.5% ranks in the top 30%; revenue growth of 11.4% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 25% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$314Mtop 16% of its family
  • net margin21.5%top 30% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth11.4%bottom 25% of its family

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

Leadership

as filed
5.4/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 46% of 16 in its family for leadership.

weight 22% of this tense · 54th percentile among 16 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Heritage Financial Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: no one files under a chief executive's title, so that part is not read; the 21 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.3 years (top 46%); 6 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 21 people in charge now (top 45%; 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 charge6 in three years among 21 peopletop 45% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed6.3 yearstop 46% 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?

5.1/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
5.8/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 41% of 19 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 59th percentile among 19 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Heritage Financial Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $233 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 3.3% of its assets as net cash, bottom 38% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 27.3% of revenue (top 20%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets3.3%bottom 38% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue27.3%top 20% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
5.3/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 47% of 19 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 53rd percentile among 19 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Heritage Financial Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 11.4% a year over the last three filed years against 9.5% over all 10, speeding up (top 50% of its family); the newest year grew 1.5% (bottom 29%); capital spending grew 31.6% a year (top 19%) (its annual reports). Heritage Financial Corporation 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+1.8 points a yeartop 50% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth1.5%bottom 29% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending31.6%top 19% 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
4.2/10

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

bottom 42% of 17 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 42nd percentile among 17 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Heritage Financial Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $314 million in fiscal 2025 came in 13% below the $361 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 38% of its family); net income of $68 million against a prior three-year average of $62 million (bottom 21%); a net margin of 21.5% against 23.9% before (bottom 44%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-13.0%top 38% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+8%bottom 21% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-2.4 pointsbottom 44% 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 HFWA · research, not advice