WILLIS LEASE FINANCE CORP
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $65.03, WILLIS LEASE FINANCE CORP (WLFC) is priced for +12.9% growth. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating; individual model outputs and user-controlled scenarios are analytical inputs, not Boothcheck targets. The narrative was composed June 28, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
- Q1 2026 set records across the franchise: revenue up 23.2 percent to 194.3 million dollars, diluted EPS up 47.5 percent to 3.26 dollars, record lease rent of 77.4 million dollars, and portfolio utilization of 85.8 percent, driven by airlines leasing spare engines amid new-engine shortages. - The model is heavily leveraged, roughly 3.95 times debt-to-equity with about 2.7 billion dollars of debt, but financed conservatively as fixed-rate, long-dated notes secured by the engines themselves (FY20
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118 institutional managers reported holding WLFC in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 47% of the company; the top 10 hold 32%. 21 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Dimensional Fund Advisors, BlackRock, Renaissance Technologies, among others. On the short side, 473k shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 7% of shares outstanding (3.9 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.
WLFC's share count grew 9% over the past five years even with $15.33M spent on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has for 2 years running; the current rate is $1.15 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $22.55M in dividends.
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 WLFC over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 11 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.
WLFC's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-05 | +6.2% | -10.0% |
| 2023-11-04 | +0.3% | +6.8% |
| 2024-03-16 | +2.2% | +35.8% |
| 2024-05-04 | +7.1% | +19.3% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
WLFC's latest 8-K filings: 2026-08-06 (items 1.01); 2026-08-04 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-07-30 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-07-21 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-07-17 (items 5.03, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: June 28, 2026
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