Westpac Bank (ASX: WBC) — Company Overview, News & Financial Data
Westpac Bank is a major Australian financial services group providing consumer, commercial, and institutional banking services.
Westpac Bank
Westpac Bank is a major Australian financial services group providing consumer, commercial, and institutional banking services. Established as Australia's first bank, the company serves retail customers, small to medium businesses, corporations, and government institutions. Its primary operations encompass residential mortgage lending, personal loans, credit cards, deposit accounts, and business financing. It also provides corporate and structured finance, transaction banking, trade finance, foreign exchange, and treasury services. The institution operates an extensive network of physical branches and digital banking platforms primarily across Australia and New Zealand, with representative and institutional operations in key global financial centers.
Snapshot
Operations
Products and/or services of Westpac Bank
- Retail Banking: Offers residential home loans, personal loans, transaction and savings accounts, credit cards, and general insurance products to millions of individual consumer clients across Australia through physical branch networks and digital banking applications.
- Business Banking: Provides specialized financial services to small and medium enterprises, commercial businesses, and agricultural sector clients, including commercial property loans, equipment finance, business overdrafts, and EFTPOS payment processing terminals.
- Institutional Banking: Delivers corporate and structured finance, trade and commodities financing, transaction banking, foreign exchange, and capital markets risk management solutions to large corporations, institutional investors, infrastructure entities, and government sector clients.
- New Zealand Operations: Delivers comprehensive banking services across New Zealand, offering residential mortgages, consumer transaction accounts, commercial lending, and wealth management solutions to retail, commercial, and agribusiness customers throughout the country.
- Private Banking & Wealth: Delivers tailored financial advisory, private banking solutions, margin lending, superannuation investment support, and personalized portfolio management services designed for high-net-worth individual clients, family offices, and complex private entities.
- Treasury & Financial Markets: Manages institutional capital raising, liquidity reserves, balance sheet funding, wholesale debt funding programs, and market-making activities across international interest rate, foreign exchange, commodities, and fixed income derivatives markets.
Westpac Bank executive team
- Anthony James MillerGroup CEO & MD
- Kate DeeChief People Officer
- Carolyn McCannChief Executive of Consumer
- Ryan Armand ZaninChief Risk Officer
- Peter HerbertChief Unite & Customer Operations Officer
- Paul FowlerChief Executive of Business & Wealth
- Catherine Anne McGrathChief Executive Officer of Westpac New Zealand Limited
- Nell C. HuttonChief Executive of Westpac Institutional Bank
- Nathan Laurence GoonanChief Financial Officer
- Richard HeeleyChief Information Officer
Latest news about Westpac Bank
Delorean Corporation secures $20M Westpac project agreement
AustraliaMajor Aussie banks raise mortgage rates by 0.25%
AustraliaAll big four Australian banks forecast rate hike
AustraliaWhy regulators are investigating $350 billion in Aussie mortgage offsets
AustraliaIngenia Communities sells six assets to Eureka for $123.8M
AustraliaAUSTRAC probes $4B CBA mortgage fraud
Australia
Dividend history
Dividends per share paid by Westpac Bank, by financial year.
| Financial year | Interim | Final | Special | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | A$0.7700 | — | — | A$1.5400 |
| FY2025 | A$0.7600 | A$0.7600 | — | A$1.5200 |
| FY2024 | A$0.7200 | A$0.9000 | — | A$1.6200 |
| FY2023 | A$0.6400 | A$0.7000 | — | A$1.3400 |
| FY2022 | A$0.6000 | A$0.6100 | — | A$1.2100 |
Key financials
Reported results for Westpac Bank, in AUD.
- Market cap
- 127.1B
- Revenue (TTM)
- 22.3B
- P/E ratio
- 18.3
- EPS (diluted, TTM)
- 2.0
- Dividend yield
- 4.2%
- Profit margin
- 31.5%
| Fiscal year end | Revenue | Operating income | Net income |
|---|---|---|---|
| 55B | 10B | 6.9B | |
| 54.3B | 10.2B | 7B | |
| 43.8B | 10.5B | 7.2B | |
| 19.3B | 8.6B | 5.7B |