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Western Alliance Bancorporation

FinancialsBanks & Brokers
Ticker WALPHOENIX, AZFiscal year ends DecemberBook value per share $72.54Diluted shares 108.1M

Western Alliance Bancorporation operates as a bank holding company providing comprehensive financial services through its principal subsidiary, Western Alliance Bank. The company maintains its website at westernalliancebancorporation.com and serves customers across Arizona, California, Nevada, and select other U.S.… From the company’s description.

Fiscal year 2025 · ends 12-31Changes are against fiscal 2024The amber dot is the latest twelve months, to 2026-06-30
Sales & profitability
$3.54BFY2025
+12.0% year over year
Last 12 mo $3.93B
34.07%FY2025
+2.7 percentage points
Last 12 mo 31.34%
$990.60MFY2025
+25.8% year over year
Last 12 mo $1.01B
12.66%FY2025
+0.9 percentage points
Last 12 mo 12.54%
Cash & financing
$-2.68BFY2025
+2.3% year over year
Last 12 mo $-1.53B
$-2.79BFY2025
+1.2% year over year
Last 12 mo $-1.65B
10.91FY2025
Was 10.86× a year earlier
Last 12 mo 0.93
109.5MFY2025
+0.2% year over year
Last 12 mo 108.1M

Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.

What Western Alliance Bancorporation does

In the company’s own words

Western Alliance Bancorporation operates as a bank holding company providing comprehensive financial services through its principal subsidiary, Western Alliance Bank. The company maintains its website at westernalliancebancorporation.com and serves customers across Arizona, California, Nevada, and select other U.S. markets including Texas, Colorado, and the Pacific Northwest.

The company's business model centers on three reportable segments: Commercial, which provides banking and treasury management services to small and middle-market businesses and specialized commercial institutions; Consumer Related, offering consumer banking services and residential mortgage banking; and Corporate & Other, which manages the investment portfolio and corporate-level items. As of December 31, 2025, Western Alliance Bank held total assets of $92.7 billion with a loan portfolio of $58.7 billion and deposits of $77.2 billion.

The loan portfolio reflects diversification across commercial and industrial lending at 48 percent, residential real estate at 25 percent, commercial real estate at 20 percent, and construction and land development at 7 percent. The company maintains an investment securities portfolio of $20.5 billion, representing approximately 22 percent of total assets, with significant exposure to government-sponsored enterprise mortgage-backed securities and U.S. Treasury securities.

Western Alliance operates through a unified banking platform following the October 2025 consolidation of legacy division brands including Alliance Bank of Arizona, Bank of Nevada, First Independent Bank, Bridge Bank, and Torrey Pines Bank under the Western Alliance Bank name. The company also operates specialized subsidiaries including AmeriHome for mortgage banking services and Digital Settlement Technologies for digital payment services in the class action legal industry.

The company employed 3,769 full-time equivalent employees as of December 31, 2025, representing a seven percent increase from the prior year. Western Alliance maintains a non-union workforce and emphasizes talent development through early career programs, professional development initiatives, and leadership succession planning. The company's deposit composition includes 32 percent non-interest-bearing deposits and 68 percent interest-bearing deposits, reflecting a strategic focus on core customer relationships and lower-cost funding sources.

Company details
Sector
Financials
Industry (SIC)
Banks & Brokers
Headquarters
PHOENIX, AZ
Fiscal year end
December
CIK
1212545
SIC
6022

Financial performance, year by year

Fiscal 2013–2025 · USD
$-393.37M$786.74M$1.97B$3.15B$4.33B2013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025Last 12 moLast 12 monthsLast 12 months

The 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.

Ownership

Who owns Western Alliance Bancorporation — and what changed

Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30

442
funds hold it
1 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$3.71B
held by funds, at market
41.6%
of shares held by funds
2
bond issues held by funds

Superinvestors in Western Alliance Bancorporation · what they did last quarter

Bill SmeadINCREASED +17.6%
Smead Capital Management
2.8%of 13F portfolio

Share of each manager’s reported 13F portfolio. Change is in shares held, since the previous quarter.

Largest fund holders · Western Alliance Bancorporation’s weight in each

iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF
IJH · iShares Trust
0.23%of fund net assets
VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.01%of fund net assets
Invesco Small Cap Value Fund
VSCAX · AIM Sector Funds (Invesco Sector Funds)
—of fund net assets
VANGUARD SMALL-CAP INDEX FUND
VB · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.10%of fund net assets
Invesco Value Opportunities Fund
VVOAX · AIM Sector Funds (Invesco Sector Funds)
—of fund net assets

Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.

Western Alliance Bancorporation’s bonds, as funds hold them

Funds report holding 2 issues of Western Alliance Bancorporation’s debt, $210.25M at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 6.54%, maturing 2031 to 2035.

Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.

Fund ownership is a subset of institutional 13F ownership — the two describe overlapping populations and must not be added together.

Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.

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