WEBSTER FINANCIAL CORPORATION
At today's price, WEBSTER FINANCIAL CORPORATION (WBS) is priced for 14.1% 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.
• Webster runs a healthcare-financial-services arm most regional banks do not have, holding $10.4 billion of HSA and related deposits with another $6.5 billion of investment balances administered off the balance sheet [Source: FY2025 10-K, accession 0000801337-26-000008], a low-cost sticky funding base that anchors a 46.83% efficiency ratio and a net interest margin of 3.36% in the first quarter of 2026 [Source: Q1 2026 earnings release]. • The defining fact is no longer standalone: Banco Santan
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516 institutional managers reported holding WBS in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 91% of the company; the top 10 hold 41%. 100 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, Dimensional Fund Advisors, among others. On the short side, 11.9M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 7% of shares outstanding (3.2 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.
WBS's share count grew 77.2% over the past five years even with $1.09B spent on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (17 and counting); the current rate is $1.60 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $743.98M in dividends and $709.04M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at WBS over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 31 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.
WBS's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-09 | +1.3% | -11.0% |
| 2023-11-08 | -2.9% | +28.0% |
| 2024-02-28 | -5.9% | -5.7% |
| 2024-05-11 | -1.0% | +1.9% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
WBS's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-16 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-05-27 (items 5.07, 9.01); 2026-05-18 (items 8.01); 2026-04-28 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-02-06 (items 1.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 28, 2026
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