The $43B Big Pharma Story is Starting Over-With a New Player
Big Pharma once paid $43B for a small biotech with a similar platform. Now, a new company is following that same playbook, leveraging its patented delivery technology to attract partnerships and near-term revenue potential.
Shares Stats
| Shares Outstanding | 33,370,000 |
| Shares Float | 32,750,000 |
| Shares Short | 780,000 |
| Insider Holdings | 415% |
| Institution Holdings | 86.42% |
About Walker & Dunlop Inc
Walker & Dunlop, Inc., through its subsidiaries, originates, sells, and services a range of multifamily and other commercial real estate financing products and services for owners and developers of real estate in the United States. It operates through three segments: Capital Markets, Servicing & Asset Management, and Corporate. The company offers first mortgage, second trust, supplemental, construction, mezzanine, preferred equity, and small-balance loans. It also provides finance for multifamily, manufactured housing communities, student housing, affordable housing, and senior housing properties under the Fannie Mae's DUS program; and construction and permanent loans to developers and owners of multifamily housing, affordable housing, senior housing, and healthcare facilities. In addition, the company acts as a debt broker to work with life insurance companies, banks, and other institutional lenders to find debt and/or equity solution for the borrowers' needs; and offers property sales brokerage services to owners and developers of multifamily properties, and commercial real estate and multifamily property appraisals for various investors. Further, it provides multifamily appraisal and valuation services; and real estate-related investment banking and advisory services, including housing market research. Additionally, the company offers servicing and asset-managing the portfolio of loans; originates loans through its principal lending and investing activities; and manages third-party capital invested in tax credit equity funds focused on the LIHTC sector and other commercial real estate sectors. Walker & Dunlop, Inc. was founded in 1937 and is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.
General
| Name | Walker & Dunlop Inc |
| Ticker | WD |
| Exchange | NYSE |
| Sector | Financial |
| Industry | Mortgage Finance |
| Currency | USD |
| Country | USA |
| Fiscal Year End | December |
| Full Time Employees | 1,399 |
Highlights
| Analyst Target | 94.00 |
| Market Cap | 2,733,400,000 |
| PE Ratio | 24.75 |
| PEG Ratio | 1.25 |
Financials
| Curr Year EPS Estimate | 4.46 |
| Next Quarter EPS Estimate | 1.21 |
| Profit Margin | 9.26% |
| Operating Margin | 16.35 |
| Return on Assets | 0.02 |
| Return on Equity | 0.06 |
| Revenue | 1.2B |
| Earnings Per Share | 3.24 |
| Revenue Per Share | 33.42 |
| Gross Profit | 1,111,016,960 |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth | 0.20 |
Valuation
| Trailing PE | 24.76 |
| Forward PE | 10.99 |
| Price/Sales (Trailing 12 Mt.) | 2.46 |
| Price/Book (Most Recent Quarter) | 1.64 |
Dividend
Walker & Dunlop Inc pays out a dividend of $2.68 per share, with a dividend yield of 3.34%.
WD's last dividend payment was made to shareholders on September 5, 2025.
They pay out 81.54% of their earnings out as a dividend.
Recent Dividends
| Sep 5, 2025 | $0.67 |
| May 29, 2025 | $0.67 |
| Mar 14, 2025 | $0.67 |
| Dec 6, 2024 | $0.65 |
| Sep 6, 2024 | $0.65 |
| May 31, 2024 | $0.65 |
| Mar 15, 2024 | $0.65 |
| Dec 8, 2023 | $0.63 |
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