Bankwell Financial Group, Inc.'s filings document the holding company's ownership of Bankwell Bank and recurring disclosures for a commercial banking issuer. Form 8-K reports furnish quarterly results of operations and financial condition, Regulation FD presentation materials, and trends in profitability, loan growth, deposits, funding costs, net interest margin, credit quality and SBA lending activity.
Definitive proxy materials cover annual meeting governance, director matters, executive compensation, equity awards and shareholder voting items. The filings also record the company's Connecticut incorporation, public-company identifiers, furnished earnings releases and exhibits used to report financial results and presentation materials.
Form 144 notice: A person who acquired 2,000 shares of Bankwell Financial Group Inc. (common) on 05/08/2014 as director compensation proposes to sell those shares through Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (Executive Financial Services, 1 New York Plaza, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10004). The proposed approximate sale date is 08/27/2025 on NASDAQ. The filing lists an aggregate market value of $85,136.80 for the 2,000 shares and reports 7,877,443 shares outstanding, implying the proposed sale represents roughly 0.025% of outstanding common shares. The filer certifies they are not aware of undisclosed material adverse information regarding the issuer.
Bankwell Financial Group (BWFG) insider activity: Chief Innovation Officer Ryan J. Hildebrand filed a Form 4 on 5-Aug-2025 disclosing a sale of 2,051 common shares on 4-Aug-2025 at $39.69 per share, a cash value of ≈ $81k. The transaction was coded “S” (open-market sale) and leaves him with no freely-tradeable shares in direct ownership after the sale.
Hildebrand continues to hold significant unvested equity under the 2022 Stock Plan:
- 15,000 performance restricted shares that cliff-vest on 7-Feb-2028 contingent on meeting performance goals.
- 3,334 time-based restricted shares that will vest in equal annual installments; 6,666 of the original 10,000 have already vested.