Company Analysis

Wintrust Financial Corporation (WTFC)

Nasdaq: WTFC · State Commercial Banks · Rosemont, IL · filing with the SEC since 1996
Grade5.4
◀ Past 5.3● Present 5.8▶ Future 5.0

The grade of Wintrust Financial Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.4/10
◀ Past5.340% of the headline
● Present5.835% of the headline
▶ Future5.025% 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
7.8/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 45% of this tense · 78th percentile among 165 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Wintrust 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
4.9/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+18.4% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 22% of this tense · 49th percentile among 152 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Wintrust Financial Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $812 million in fiscal 2016 to $3.7 billion in fiscal 2025, up 18.4% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 8% 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 span18.4%top 23% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 29% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 44% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak7.9%bottom 35% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
2.1/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 4.2% a year. 18% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 14 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 21st percentile among 157 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Wintrust Financial Corporation's diluted share count grew about 4.2% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 18% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 14 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-23 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 22% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 21% 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
4.3/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 11%: 11¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 90%: owes 90¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 43rd percentile among 161 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Wintrust Financial Corporation earned about 11 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 4.9% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 38% of its family
  • return on equitytop 32% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 23% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
7.9/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 21% of 155 in its family; net margin 22.1%.

weight 33% of this tense · 79th percentile among 155 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Wintrust Financial Corporation's standing among 155 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $3.7 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 8% by size; a net margin of 22.1% ranks in the top 45%; revenue growth of 28.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 11% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$3.73Btop 8% of its family
  • net margin22.1%top 45% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth28.7%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
5.8/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 42% of 150 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2023.

weight 22% of this tense · 58th percentile among 150 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Wintrust Financial Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Crane, Timothy (PRESIDENT & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2023-05-12, 3.5 years (bottom 19% of its family); the 23 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 9.8 years (top 19%); 4 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 23 people in charge now (top 24%; 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 charge4 in three years among 23 peopletop 24% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed9.8 yearstop 19% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record3.5 yearsbottom 19% 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?

5.0/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
3.1/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 31% of 142 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 31st percentile among 142 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Wintrust Financial Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $468 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 0.7% of its assets as net cash, bottom 15% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 23.1% of revenue (bottom 48%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets0.7%bottom 15% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue23.1%bottom 48% 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

Wintrust Financial Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 28.7% a year over the last three filed years against 18.4% over all 10, speeding up (top 12% of its family); the newest year grew 7.2% (top 37%); capital spending grew -2.2% a year (bottom 40%) (its annual reports). Wintrust 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+10.3 points a yeartop 12% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth7.2%top 37% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-2.2%bottom 40% 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
5.6/10

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

top 44% of 150 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 56th percentile among 150 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Wintrust Financial Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $3.7 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 24% below the $4.9 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 15% of its family); net income of $824 million against a prior three-year average of $609 million (top 18%); a net margin of 22.1% against 23.6% before (top 30%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-24.0%bottom 15% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+35%top 18% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-1.5 pointstop 30% 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 WTFC · research, not advice