Bankwell Financial Group, Inc. (BWFG)
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About Bankwell Financial Group, Inc.
Bankwell Financial Group, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Bankwell Bank that provides various banking services for individual and commercial customers. It offers various traditional depository products, including checking, savings, money market, and certificates of deposit. The company also provides first mortgage loans secured by one-to-four family owner occupied residential properties for personal use; home equity loans and home equity lines of credit secured by owner occupied one-to-four family residential properties; loans secured by commercial real estate, multi-family dwellings, and investor-owned one-to-four family dwellings; commercial construction loans for commercial development projects, including apartment buildings and condominiums, as well as office buildings, retail, and other income producing properties; land loans; commercial business loans secured by assignments of corporate assets and personal guarantees of the business owners; loans secured by savings or certificate accounts and automobiles; and unsecured personal loans and overdraft lines of credit. It operates branches in New Canaan, Stamford, Fairfield, Wilton, Westport, Darien, Norwalk, and Hamden, Connecticut. The company was formerly known as BNC Financial Group, Inc. and changed its name to Bankwell Financial Group, Inc. in September 2013. Bankwell Financial Group, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in New Canaan, Connecticut.
Insider Activity of Bankwell Financial Group, Inc.
Over the last 12 months, insiders at Bankwell Financial Group, Inc. have bought $900,338 and sold $402,062 worth of Bankwell Financial Group, Inc. stock.
On average, over the past 5 years, insiders at Bankwell Financial Group, Inc. have bought $1.08M and sold $190,501 worth of stock each year.
Highest buying activity among insiders over the last 12 months: SEIDMAN LAWRENCE B (director) — $995,082. Dale Eric J (director) — $113,975. Demos Darryl (director) — $74,669.
The last purchase of 2,290 shares for transaction amount of $74,669 was made by Demos Darryl (director) on 2024‑12‑13.
List of Insider Buy and Sell Transactions, Bankwell Financial Group, Inc.
| 2024-12-16 | Sale | EVP & Chief Risk & Operations | 1,330 0.0169% | $32.98 | $43,863 | -7.17% | ||
| 2024-12-13 | director | 2,290 0.0292% | $32.61 | $74,669 | -4.75% | |||
| 2024-12-09 | director | 346 0.0044% | $32.91 | $11,387 | -4.14% | |||
| 2024-12-09 | director | 14 0.0002% | $32.88 | $460 | -4.14% | |||
| 2024-12-09 | director | 200 0.0025% | $32.90 | $6,580 | -4.14% | |||
| 2024-12-09 | director | 204 0.0026% | $32.90 | $6,712 | -4.14% | |||
| 2024-12-09 | director | 236 0.003% | $32.90 | $7,764 | -4.14% | |||
| 2024-12-06 | director | 339 0.0043% | $32.90 | $11,153 | -5.08% | |||
| 2024-12-06 | director | 13 0.0002% | $32.85 | $427 | -5.08% | |||
| 2024-12-06 | director | 196 0.0025% | $32.90 | $6,448 | -5.08% | |||
| 2024-12-06 | director | 199 0.0025% | $32.90 | $6,547 | -5.08% | |||
| 2024-12-06 | director | 230 0.0029% | $32.90 | $7,567 | -5.08% | |||
| 2024-11-25 | director | 176 0.0022% | $34.51 | $6,074 | -5.76% | |||
| 2024-11-25 | director | 146 0.0018% | $34.51 | $5,038 | -5.76% | |||
| 2024-11-25 | director | 93 0.0012% | $34.51 | $3,209 | -5.76% | |||
| 2024-11-25 | director | 29 0.0004% | $34.50 | $1,001 | -5.76% | |||
| 2024-11-25 | director | 26 0.0003% | $34.50 | $897 | -5.76% | |||
| 2024-10-31 | director | 4,976 0.0646% | $29.07 | $144,665 | +13.61% | |||
| 2024-09-11 | director | 209 0.0026% | $29.50 | $6,166 | +4.68% | |||
| 2024-09-11 | director | 7 <0.0001% | $29.50 | $207 | +4.68% |
Insider Historical Profitability
| Dale Eric J | director | 37807 0.4811% | $29.50 | 79 | 0 | +11.25% |
| Drexler Blake S | director | 36224 0.4609% | $29.50 | 58 | 2 | +8.94% |
| Porto Carl M | director | 19129 0.2434% | $29.50 | 80 | 0 | +10.91% |
| Chivily Christine | EVP & Chief Credit Officer | 14449 0.1839% | $29.50 | 0 | 6 | |
| Demos Darryl | director | 8156 0.1038% | $29.50 | 3 | 0 | <0.0001% |
| Dunne Jeffrey R | director | 3651 0.0465% | $29.50 | 23 | 0 | +3.71% |
| Brunner Steven H | EVP & Chief Risk & Operations | 3002 0.0382% | $29.50 | 0 | 6 | |
| Leitao Kevin D | director | 2500 0.0318% | $29.50 | 1 | 0 | |
| SEIDMAN LAWRENCE B | director | 2189 0.0279% | $29.50 | 57 | 0 | +3.86% |
| Hildebrand Ryan Jason | Chief Innovation Officer | 1885 0.024% | $29.50 | 0 | 1 | |
| Bauer George P | director | 153895 1.9583% | $29.50 | 1 | 21 | |
| Gruseke Christopher R | President & CEO | 151473 1.9275% | $29.50 | 14 | 0 | +12.14% |
| Fieber James A | director | 150042 1.9093% | $29.50 | 6 | 12 | +12.02% |
| DeWyngaert Heidi | EVP & CLO | 56871 0.7237% | $29.50 | 0 | 4 | |
| Halsell Hugh III | director | 55556 0.7069% | $29.50 | 1 | 0 | |
| Kuehner Carl R III | director | 40000 0.509% | $29.50 | 1 | 0 | |
| Jones Daniel S | 30159 0.3838% | $29.50 | 42 | 0 | +17.5% | |
| BRATHWAITE GAIL E D | EVP & COO | 25000 0.3181% | $29.50 | 1 | 0 | |
| Castiglioni Richard | 16121 0.2051% | $29.50 | 3 | 0 | +3.89% | |
| McNeill Matt | EVP & Chief Banking Officer | 15476 0.1969% | $29.50 | 1 | 0 | +5.92% |
| Lampert Todd | director | 8180 0.1041% | $29.50 | 2 | 14 | <0.0001% |
| Garnett James M Jr | director | 5658 0.072% | $29.50 | 81 | 0 | +7.36% |
| LISS VICTOR S | director | 5000 0.0636% | $29.50 | 1 | 0 | |
| Dineen David P | EVP, Head of Community Banking | 3750 0.0477% | $29.50 | 0 | 3 | |
| Kotval Anahaita N. | director | 2500 0.0318% | $29.50 | 1 | 0 | |
| VERRICO ERNEST J SR | EVP & CFO | 2000 0.0254% | $29.50 | 1 | 0 | +14.72% |
| Ivanov Penko Krassimir | EVP & Chief Financial Officer | 1679 0.0214% | $29.50 | 11 | 0 | +3.26% |
| Fitzpatrick William J | director | 1500 0.0191% | $29.50 | 1 | 0 | |
| Fitzgibbon Mark | director | 1139 0.0145% | $29.50 | 1 | 0 | |
| Waitz Laura | EVP & Chief Operating Officer | 0 0% | $29.50 | 0 | 11 |
Institutional Investor Ownership
| BlackRock | $10.53M | 5.14 | 406,084 | -1.35% | -$143,681.67 | <0.0001 | |
| The Vanguard Group | $8.54M | 4.17 | 329,246 | +0.59% | +$50,142.02 | <0.0001 | |
| Banc Funds Co Llc | $7.33M | 3.58 | 282,623 | +0.35% | +$25,939.15 | 1.05 | |
| Dimensional Fund Advisors | $7.24M | 3.53 | 279,112 | +3.87% | +$269,464.75 | <0.01 | |
| Renaissance Technologies | $4.04M | 1.97 | 155,903 | -2.32% | -$95,975.06 | 0.01 | |
| Geode Capital Management | $3.38M | 1.65 | 130,223 | +1.51% | +$50,355.84 | <0.0001 | |
| LSV Asset Management | $3.33M | 1.63 | 128,446 | -0.77% | -$25,940.86 | 0.01 | |
| Pacific Ridge Capital Partners, LLC | $3.33M | 1.62 | 128,266 | -4.95% | -$173,123.56 | 0.73 | |
| Siena Capital Partners Gp Llc | $2.86M | 1.4 | 110,338 | 0% | +$0 | 1.56 | |
| GM Advisory Group | $2.15M | 1.05 | 82,813 | +0.78% | +$16,601.51 | 0.15 | |
| Acadian Asset Management | $2.1M | 1.03 | 81,107 | 0% | +$0 | 0.01 | |
| State Street | $1.98M | 0.96 | 76,166 | +4.1% | +$77,820.00 | <0.0001 | |
| Northern Trust | $1.79M | 0.87 | 68,968 | +1.54% | +$27,159.17 | <0.0001 | |
| Bridgeway Capital Management | $1.34M | 0.65 | 51,649 | +1.62% | +$21,400.50 | 0.02 | |
| American Century Investments | $969,508.00 | 0.47 | 37,375 | 0% | +$0 | <0.01 | |
| Kennedy Capital Management Inc | $861,519.00 | 0.42 | 33,212 | 0% | +$0 | 0.02 | |
| Summit Trail Advisors | $852,544.00 | 0.42 | 32,866 | -9.26% | -$86,950.88 | 0.02 | |
| BNY Mellon | $697,065.00 | 0.34 | 26,872 | -3.42% | -$24,695.07 | <0.0001 | |
| Morgan Stanley | $678,478.00 | 0.33 | 26,155 | -65.22% | -$1.27M | <0.0001 | |
| Invesco | $495,584.00 | 0.24 | 19,105 | New | +$495,584.00 | <0.0001 | |
| Empowered Funds Llc | $452,497.00 | 0.22 | 17,444 | +7.55% | +$31,776.47 | 0.01 | |
| CAPTRUST | $433,509.00 | 0.21 | 16,712 | -2.4% | -$10,661.33 | <0.0001 | |
| Charles Schwab | $413,899.00 | 0.2 | 15,956 | 0% | +$0 | <0.0001 | |
| Barclays | $392,000.00 | 0.19 | 15,086 | -14.38% | -$65,844.36 | <0.0001 | |
| Citadel Advisors LLC | $389,697.00 | 0.19 | 15,023 | -5.5% | -$22,697.52 | <0.0001 | |
| Goldman Sachs | $356,857.00 | 0.17 | 13,757 | -29.61% | -$150,140.90 | <0.0001 | |
| Bridge City Capital | $303,965.00 | 0.15 | 11,718 | +17.91% | +$46,173.21 | 0.11 | |
| JPMorgan Chase | $292,344.00 | 0.14 | 11,270 | +69.27% | +$119,635.36 | <0.0001 | |
| Royal Bank of Canada | $286,000.00 | 0.14 | 11,018 | -11.36% | -$36,652.02 | <0.0001 | |
| Wells Fargo | $261,625.00 | 0.13 | 10,086 | +15.68% | +$35,459.19 | <0.0001 | |
| Two Sigma | $252,422.00 | 0.12 | 9,731 | 0% | +$0 | <0.0001 | |
| RhumbLine Advisers | $237,656.00 | 0.12 | 9,162 | +1.22% | +$2,853.32 | <0.0001 | |
| UBS | $227,520.00 | 0.11 | 8,771 | -8.48% | -$21,089.24 | <0.0001 | |
| Bank of America | $217,273.00 | 0.11 | 8,376 | -32.64% | -$105,264.31 | <0.0001 | |
| Carl P. Sherr & Co., LLC | $207,520.00 | 0.1 | 8,000 | 0% | +$0 | 0.12 | |
| Ohio Strs | $114,000.00 | 0.06 | 4,400 | -6.38% | -$7,772.73 | <0.0001 | |
| New York State Common Retirement Fund | $102,000.00 | 0.05 | 3,949 | 0% | +$0 | <0.0001 | |
| Hillsdale Investment Management Inc. | $93,384.00 | 0.05 | 3,600 | +12.5% | +$10,376.00 | 0.01 | |
| Allspring Global Investments | $88,870.00 | 0.04 | 3,426 | +0.38% | +$337.22 | <0.0001 | |
| MetLife Investment Management | $77,898.00 | 0.04 | 3,003 | 0% | +$0 | <0.0001 | |
| American International Group | $75,252.00 | 0.04 | 2,901 | -0.89% | -$674.44 | <0.0001 | |
| Key Financial, Inc. | $75,226.00 | 0.04 | 2,900 | 0% | +$0 | 0.02 | |
| Fidelity Investments | $45,291.00 | 0.02 | 1,746 | -7.86% | -$3,865.04 | <0.0001 | |
| U.S. Bancorp | $43,813.00 | 0.02 | 1,689 | 0% | +$0 | <0.0001 | |
| Citigroup | $37,613.00 | 0.02 | 1,450 | +32.54% | +$9,234.64 | <0.0001 | |
| Public Employees Retirement System Of Ohio | $30,350.00 | 0.02 | 1,170 | -4.1% | -$1,297.01 | <0.0001 | |
| CalSTRS | $15,356.00 | 0.01 | 592 | -38.91% | -$9,779.07 | <0.0001 | |
| NISA Investment Advisors, LLC | $12,399.00 | 0.01 | 478 | 0% | +$0 | <0.0001 | |
| Legal & General | $12,114.00 | 0.01 | 467 | 0% | +$0 | <0.0001 | |
| Ameritas Investment Partners Inc | $10,973.00 | 0.01 | 423 | 0% | +$0 | <0.0001 |