Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
At today's price, Northwest Bancshares, Inc. (NWBI) is priced for 9.9% return on equity. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Northwest Bancshares is a regional bank that just posted record Q1 2026 net income of $51 million, up 16.3% year over year, helped by its acquisition of Penns Woods Bancorp and a steady net interest margin of 3.70%. [Source: Northwest Bancshares Q1 2026 results, 2026] • The main risk is credit and the rate cycle: as a regional lender with commercial real estate exposure, the bank's earnings depend on loan losses staying low and on deposit costs not reversing the recent improvement. • Watch cap
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297 institutional managers reported holding NWBI in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 68% of the company; the top 10 hold 48%. 36 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, Dimensional Fund Advisors, among others. On the short side, 5.8M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 4% of shares outstanding (6.4 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
NWBI's share count is about flat over the past five years ($18.82M of repurchases, offset by issuance). It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (16 and counting); the current rate is $0.80 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $292.00M in dividends.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at NWBI over the trailing three years: 2023: 4 buys totaling $327k; 2024: 5 buys totaling $430k; 2025: 10 buys totaling $483k; 2026: 3 buys totaling $207k. 28 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
NWBI's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-05 | +1.5% | -13.5% |
| 2023-11-04 | +5.5% | +12.7% |
| 2024-02-24 | +0.7% | -6.0% |
| 2024-05-04 | -1.2% | +1.5% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
NWBI's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-26 (items 5.02, 5.07, 9.01); 2026-04-27 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-01-26 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2025-10-27 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2025-07-29 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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