Wintrust Financial (WTFC)

• Market cap: $7.44B
• 1 day: -1.63%
• 5 days: 3.58%
• 1 month: -1.15%
• 3 months: -15.71%
• 6 months: -5.44%
• Year to date: -10.35%
• 1 year: 15.04%
• 5 years: 165.32%
• 10 years: 128.09%
• Sector: Financials
• Industry: Banks - Regional

About: Wintrust Financial Corp is a financial holding company that provides community-oriented, personal, and commercial banking services to customers generally located in the Chicago metropolitan area, southern Wisconsin, northwest Indiana, and western Michigan. The company provides specialty finance services, including financing for the payment of property and casualty insurance premiums and life insurance premiums, and wealth management services to customers in its market area. The company's operations consist of three primary segments: community banking, specialty finance, and wealth management. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the community banking segment.

Employees: 5,903

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

82% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 69 | Existing positions closed: 38

21% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $6.51B [Q3] → $7.86B (+$1.35B) [Q4]

13% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 8 [Q3] → 9 (+1) [Q4]

6% more funds holding

Funds holding: 411 [Q3] → 436 (+25) [Q4]

4.39% more ownership

Funds ownership: 90.45% [Q3] → 94.85% (+4.39%) [Q4]

9% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 134 | Existing positions reduced: 147

Research analyst outlook

6 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $132 19% upside
• Avg. target: $138 24% upside
• High target: $145 30% upside

6 analyst ratings

• positive: 6 100%
• neutral: 0 0%
• negative: 0 0%

Truist Securities Brandon King 40% 1-year accuracy 14 / 35 met price target	23% upside $137	Buy Maintained	25 Apr 2025
RBC Capital Karl Shepard 50% 1-year accuracy 5 / 10 met price target	21% upside $135	Outperform Maintained	23 Apr 2025
Piper Sandler Nathan Race 41% 1-year accuracy 12 / 29 met price target	27% upside $141	Overweight Maintained	23 Apr 2025
DA Davidson Jeff Rulis 31% 1-year accuracy 4 / 13 met price target	21% upside $135	Buy Maintained	23 Apr 2025
Stephens & Co. Terry McEvoy 36% 1-year accuracy 10 / 28 met price target	19% upside $132	Overweight Maintained	23 Apr 2025