Western Alliance Bancorporation
About: Western Alliance Bancorporation is a Las Vegas-based holding company with regional banks operating in Nevada, Arizona, and California. The bank offers retail banking services and focuses on mortgages for retail customers and commercial loans. The company's reportable segments are Commercial segment includes provides commercial banking and treasury management products and services to small and middle-market businesses, specialized banking services to sophisticated commercial institutions and investors within niche industries, as well as financial services to the real estate industry. Consumer Related segment offers both commercial banking services to enterprises in consumer-related sectors and consumer banking services, such as residential mortgage banking and Corporate & Other.
Employees: 3,524
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
113% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $207M | Put options by funds: $97.2M
38% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 170 | Existing positions reduced: 123
33% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 60 | Existing positions closed: 45
2% more funds holding
Funds holding: 412 [Q3] → 420 (+8) [Q4]
1.34% more ownership
Funds ownership: 88.26% [Q3] → 89.6% (+1.34%) [Q4]
0% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 9 [Q3] → 9 (+0) [Q4]
2% less capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $8.4B [Q3] → $8.24B (-$164M) [Q4]
Research analyst outlook
6 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
6 analyst ratings
RBC Capital Karl Shepard 50% 1-year accuracy 5 / 10 met price target | 22%upside $85 | Outperform Maintained | 23 Apr 2025 |
DA Davidson Gary Tenner 43% 1-year accuracy 22 / 51 met price target | 29%upside $90 | Buy Maintained | 23 Apr 2025 |
Stephens & Co. Andrew Terrell 33% 1-year accuracy 10 / 30 met price target | 32%upside $92 | Overweight Reiterated | 22 Apr 2025 |
Wells Fargo Timur Braziler 51% 1-year accuracy 19 / 37 met price target | 15%upside $80 | Equal-Weight Maintained | 9 Apr 2025 |
Barclays Jared Shaw 49% 1-year accuracy 38 / 77 met price target | 39%upside $97 | Overweight Maintained | 8 Apr 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 13 articles about WAL published over the past 30 days









