WESBANCO, INC.
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $42.14, WESBANCO, INC. (WSBC) is priced for 9.8% return on equity. 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.
At $36.25 the stock trades at about 0.9x book, and the price embeds an assumed return on equity near 9.1%. Wesbanco has recently been earning closer to 5.4%, so the market is paying for a recovery, not the current run-rate. The Premier Financial deal that closed in February 2025 is the swing factor. Q1 2026 operating EPS rose 38% year over year, net interest margin widened 22 basis points to 3.57%, and management says the deal produced 49% core EPS accretion in nine months against a 40% first-y
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301 institutional managers reported holding WSBC in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 73% of the company; the top 10 hold 42%. 31 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, Dimensional Fund Advisors, among others. On the short side, 3.5M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 4% 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.
WSBC's share count grew 43.7% over the past five years even with $7.22M spent on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (16 and counting); the current rate is $1.49 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $290.69M in dividends and $3.48M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at WSBC over the trailing three years: 2024: 3 buys totaling $40k; 2025: 17 buys totaling $1.56M; 2026: 4 buys totaling $31k. 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.
WSBC's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-04 | +2.5% | -10.7% |
| 2023-11-03 | +5.1% | +14.2% |
| 2024-02-27 | -7.2% | -5.7% |
| 2024-05-03 | -2.7% | -4.1% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
WSBC's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-21 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-07-02 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-06-04 (items 5.02, 9.01); 2026-05-20 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-05-04 (items 7.01, 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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