Company Analysis

TFS Financial Corporation (TFSL)

Nasdaq: TFSL · Savings Institution, Federally Chartered · Cleveland, OH · filing with the SEC since 2006
Grade5.8
◀ Past 6.6● Present 5.8▶ Future 4.7

The grade of TFS Financial Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.8/10
◀ Past6.640% of the headline
● Present5.835% of the headline
▶ Future4.725% 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?

6.6/1040% 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 34 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

TFS 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
4.0/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+7.8% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 22% of this tense · 40th percentile among 30 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

TFS Financial Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $388 million in fiscal 2016 to $763 million in fiscal 2025, up 7.8% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 19% 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 span7.8%bottom 32% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 43% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 30% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak19.2%bottom 15% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
5.4/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 0.1% a year. 72% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 25 sales, 5 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 54th percentile among 31 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-09-30, TFS Financial Corporation's diluted share count grew about 0.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 72% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 25 sales and 5 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $616 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 32% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 24% 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
4.4/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 5%: 5¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 89%: owes 89¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 44th percentile among 33 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-09-30, TFS Financial Corporation earned about 5 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 89 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.2% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 47% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 41% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 38% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
7.0/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 30% of 31 in its family; net margin 11.9%.

weight 33% of this tense · 70th percentile among 31 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

TFS Financial Corporation's standing among 31 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $763 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 11% by size; a net margin of 11.9% ranks in the bottom 34%; revenue growth of 23.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 11% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$763Mtop 11% of its family
  • net margin11.9%bottom 34% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth23.1%top 11% of its family

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

Leadership

as filed
6.9/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 31% of 25 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2007.

weight 22% of this tense · 69th percentile among 25 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

TFS Financial Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Stefanski, Marc A (Chairman, President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2007-02-12, 19.8 years (top 2% of its family); the 21 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.3 years (bottom 35%); 6 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 21 people in charge now (top 27%; 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 27% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed6.3 yearsbottom 35% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record19.8 yearstop 2% 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?

4.7/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
2.6/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 26% of 25 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 26th percentile among 25 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

TFS Financial Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $429 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 2.5% of its assets as net cash, bottom 38% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 9.3% of revenue (bottom 15%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets2.5%bottom 38% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue9.3%bottom 15% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
7.7/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 23% of 30 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 77th percentile among 30 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

TFS Financial Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 23.1% a year over the last three filed years against 7.8% over all 10, speeding up (top 8% of its family); the newest year grew 4% (bottom 48%); capital spending grew 61.9% a year (top 9%) (its annual reports). TFS 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+15.3 points a yeartop 8% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth4.0%bottom 48% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending61.9%top 9% 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
3.7/10

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

bottom 37% of 29 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 37th percentile among 29 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

TFS Financial Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $763 million in fiscal 2025 came in 22.3% below the $983 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 22% of its family); net income of $91 million against a prior three-year average of $76 million (bottom 43%); a net margin of 11.9% against 13.8% before (bottom 47%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-22.3%bottom 22% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+19%bottom 43% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-1.9 pointsbottom 47% 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 TFSL · research, not advice