Public company intelligence preview
WATERSTONE FINANCIAL INC
22 insider trades surfaced from the last year. This page shows only aggregate signals, not the underlying transactions, people, filings, filters, or AI workspace.
Snapshot
A narrow read on a much deeper workspace.
The preview gives search visitors enough signal to understand coverage. It does not expose transaction records, person-level profiles, filters, comparisons, or analyst workflows.
Insider compensation
Public aggregate: $625670.09 average total compensation across covered insiders.
Governance movement
Public aggregate: 1 governance events in the last year.
Institutional ownership
Public aggregate: 120 holders from the latest quarter.
Restricted sales and governance
Public counts, not the investigation layer.
The full product opens the underlying filings, insider context, historical holdings, comparison tools, and AI analysis.
Market context
Basic quote context for the preview.
Company note
Context before the data.
Company Overview
Waterstone Financial Inc. is a Financial Services company in the Banks - Regional industry, operating through WaterStone Bank SSB and Waterstone Mortgage Corporation. Its business is split between a community banking franchise in the Milwaukee/Waukesha area and a national mortgage banking operation with offices across 24 states, giving it both local deposit-lending exposure and broader mortgage origination sensitivity. The bank is heavily concentrated in real estate-related lending, especially multifamily, one- to four-family residential, and commercial real estate loans, while mortgage banking depends on residential loan production for sale into the secondary market.
Executive Compensation Practices
For a regional bank like Waterstone Financial, executive compensation is typically driven by a mix of earnings growth, net interest margin, efficiency ratio, credit quality, capital strength, and mortgage banking profitability. The company’s 2025 results suggest performance metrics that could influence pay outcomes: net income, diluted EPS, ROA/ROE, and especially the expansion in net interest margin to 2.68% likely matter to incentive plans. Because mortgage banking is a meaningful but cyclical earnings stream, executives may also be measured on loan origination volume, gain-on-sale margins, expense control, and risk-adjusted profitability rather than just topline growth. In the Banks - Regional industry, compensation structures often emphasize conservative, compliance-sensitive goals, with deferred equity or cash components tied to long-term capital preservation and asset quality rather than aggressive revenue targets.
Insider Trading Considerations
Insider trading activity in this company should be viewed through the lens of a deposit-funded lender that is highly sensitive to interest rates, deposit competition, housing demand, and credit conditions. Management’s results indicate that mortgage origination volumes and margins can move meaningfully with refinance activity, purchase demand, and inventory constraints, so insiders may have more material information around monthly pipeline trends, loan spreads, and seasonal shifts in production. The bank’s concentration in real estate lending also means insiders may react to signals about commercial real estate performance, delinquency trends, and changes in allowance for credit losses. As a regulated financial institution, Waterstone Financial and its executives are subject to tighter oversight, blackout periods, and trading restrictions, and material updates about capital, liquidity, and credit quality could be especially important triggers for insider buying or selling.
Unlock the full WSBF insider intelligence workspace.
Move from public aggregate counts into transaction-level detail, people, filings, compensation history, ownership shifts, export tools, and AI-assisted analysis.