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Bankwell Financial Group, Inc. BWFG

14 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$35.2M
▲ 260.3% YoY
$27.1M
▼ 7.5% YoY

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

In brief

What this company does

Bankwell Financial Group, Inc. (the "Parent Corporation") is a bank holding company, headquartered in New Canaan, Connecticut and offers a broad range of financial services through its banking subsidiary, Bankwell Bank (the "Bank" and, collectively with the Parent Corporation and the Parent Corporation's subsidiaries, "we", "our", "us", or the "Company"), a Connecticut state chartered bank founded in 2002. The Bank operates nine full-service branches in New Canaan, Stamford, Fairfield, Westport, Darien, Norwalk, and Hamden, Connecticut. As of December 31, 2025, on a consolidated basis, we had total assets of approximately $3.4 billion, net loans of approximately $2.8 billion, total deposits of approximately $2.8 billion, and shareholders’ equity of approximately $301.5 million. On November 5, 2013, we acquired The Wilton Bank, which was merged into Bankwell Bank. On October 1, 2014, we acquired Quinnipiac Bank and Trust Company, which was merged into Bankwell Bank.

Written from the business description in Bankwell Financial Group, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 4 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

·
Revenue, FY2025 · full 14-year series below
Compound annual growth
−2.0%
+42.9%
+14.6%
−2.4%
+42.8%
+13.9%
+0.0%
+7.4%
+32.0%
−13.3%
+7.0%
+35.1%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

·
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 12.3%
5%10%15%
201220182025
Three returns, three denominators.
Return on capital employedNot available: we don't have total assets or current liabilities for this period.

Each USD of equity produced 12 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 7.6M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 27.1
30M60M
201220182025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 6.3 · Net buybacks 1.3
5.0M10.0M-0.5M-1.0MDividendsNet buybacks
201520172019202120232025

USD 6.3M in dividends and USD 1.3M in buybacks — 22% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 3.4B
EquityUSD 301.5M
CashUSD 224.9M
DepositsUSD 2.8B

Equity funds 9% of total assets.

The 14-year record

14 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
BWFG, 14-year financial record
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012
Revenue $B◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
Operating income $B0.00.00.00.00.00.0◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
EBITDA $B0.10.00.10.10.00.0◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
Income tax $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Net income $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Free cash flow $B0.00.00.00.1◌◌0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
EPS, diluted $4.451.234.674.793.360.752.312.211.781.621.210.781.440.38
Dividend / sh $0.800.800.800.800.640.560.520.480.280.220.05◌◌◌
Payout %186417171974222216134———
ROE %12.33.614.517.014.03.310.210.49.08.96.94.68.52.4
Shares out B0.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.01◌◌◌◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures · 1 divergence in 42 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 13 of the 14 fiscal years we could check. 1 of those reconciliations are divergences — the figures exist but don't fit the formula this check expects; that isn't the same as an error. Six checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2013. Five checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2012.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures1 divergent
ActivityState Commercial Banks
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inConnecticut
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
SEC categorysmaller reporting company
Data on record since2011

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