Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
Northwest Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: NWBI) operates as a community-oriented financial holding company providing personal and commercial banking solutions, investment management, and trust services through its principal subsidiary, Northwest Bank. The company's website is www.northwest.com. From the company’s description.
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What Northwest Bancshares, Inc. does
In the company’s own words
Northwest Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: NWBI) operates as a community-oriented financial holding company providing personal and commercial banking solutions, investment management, and trust services through its principal subsidiary, Northwest Bank. The company's website is www.northwest.com.
Northwest Bank, a Pennsylvania-chartered savings bank founded in 1896, serves customers across a geographically diverse footprint spanning Pennsylvania, western New York, northeastern Ohio, and Indiana. As of December 31, 2025, the company operated 161 community banking locations throughout these market areas. The company's market area encompasses approximately 9.1 million people across 4.9 million in Pennsylvania, 2.0 million in New York, 861,000 in Ohio, and 1.3 million in Indiana.
The company's lending activities focus on originating fixed and adjustable-rate residential mortgage loans collateralized by one-to-four-family residences, consumer loans primarily secured by automobiles, and commercial real estate and commercial business loans. As of December 31, 2025, the loan portfolio totaled approximately $13.0 billion, with residential mortgage loans representing a significant portion, complemented by commercial real estate loans of $3.3 billion, commercial loans of $2.6 billion, and other consumer loans of $2.5 billion. The company generates principal income from interest received on loans and marketable securities, with primary funding sources derived from personal and business deposits, borrowed funds, and loan repayments.
In July 2025, Northwest Bancshares completed its acquisition of Penns Woods Bancorp, Inc., adding $2.2 billion in total assets, including $1.8 billion in loans and $1.6 billion in deposits. This acquisition expanded the company's market presence and resulted in the merger of Penns Woods' subsidiary banks, Luzerne Bank and Jersey Shore State Bank, into Northwest Bank.
The company maintains a robust risk management framework through its Enterprise Risk Management program, overseeing credit risk, market risk, operational risk, liquidity risk, compliance risk, and strategic risk. Deposits represent the primary funding source, with the company offering checking accounts, savings accounts, money market deposit accounts, certificates of deposit, and individual retirement accounts. As of December 31, 2025, the company had 146,107,964 shares outstanding.
Company details
- Sector
- Financials
- Industry (SIC)
- Commercial Banks
- Headquarters
- WARREN, PA
- Fiscal year end
- December
- CIK
- 1471265
- SIC
- 6021
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2013–2025 · USDThe full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.
Who owns Northwest Bancshares, Inc. — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Largest fund holders · Northwest Bancshares, Inc.’s weight in each
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Recent filings
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