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WLFC WILLIS LEASE FINANCE CORP

2026Q2 · CUSIP 970646105 · Sector: Consumer

Piling in

Net holder growth ranks near the top of the market

Funds that own it
174
Institutions that reported holding it to the SEC
Net increase in holders
+50
Last quarter 124 → now 174
How unusual is that
Top 10%
Stronger buying than 95% of US stocks
What the filings say, in one paragraph

174 funds held WLFC at the end of 2026Q2, up 50 from the quarter before. That is stronger buying than 94.6% of US stocks — among the most piled-into names this quarter. On the business itself, revenue over the last 12 months was $730M(YoY +28.3%), the P/E is 3.6x. WLFC has had 3 buying rushes in its history, and the price moved +49.7% on average over the six months after (that is the raw price move, not how much it beat the market by). It sits in the Consumer sector.

How many funds owned it, quarter by quarter

Bars = net change in institutional holders, positive (green) or negative (red). Line = total institutional holders.

2013Q3: holders=34 2013Q4: holders=38 2014Q1: holders=36 2014Q2: holders=45 2014Q3: holders=47 2014Q4: holders=49 2015Q1: holders=46 2015Q2: holders=43 2015Q3: holders=38 2015Q4: holders=32 2016Q1: holders=39 2016Q2: holders=50 2016Q3: holders=48 2016Q4: holders=47 2017Q1: holders=45 2017Q2: holders=52 2017Q3: holders=51 2017Q4: holders=53 2018Q1: holders=49 2018Q2: holders=50 2018Q3: holders=51 2018Q4: holders=50 2019Q1: holders=56 2019Q2: holders=55 2019Q3: holders=62 2019Q4: holders=70 2020Q1: holders=53 2020Q2: holders=47 2020Q3: holders=48 2020Q4: holders=44 2021Q1: holders=48 2021Q2: holders=45 2021Q3: holders=41 2021Q4: holders=40 2022Q1: holders=42 2022Q2: holders=35 2022Q3: holders=31 2022Q4: holders=37 2023Q1: holders=41 2023Q2: holders=45 2023Q3: holders=48 2023Q4: holders=49 2024Q1: holders=50 2024Q2: holders=64 2024Q3: holders=82 2024Q4: holders=104 2025Q1: holders=108 2025Q2: holders=112 2025Q3: holders=128 2025Q4: holders=114 2026Q1: holders=124 2026Q2: holders=174 -50 -25 +0 +25 +50 27105183 13Q315Q116Q318Q119Q321Q122Q324Q125Q326Q2 Net change in holders (bars) Total funds holding (line)

What happened after each past buying rush 3 times in its history

Quarter of the rush How unusual then Price, next 3 months Price, next 6 months
2026Q2 Top 10%
2024Q3 Top 20% +12.8% -2.5%
2024Q2 Top 20% +49.8% +101.9%

These are the raw price moves, not how much it beat the market by. Compare them against the market over the same months — in a strong bull market almost everything is up.

Show all the numbers (large funds, value held, options…) ▾
Of them, large funds
98
Change in large funds
+28
Total value they hold
$924M
Funds buying for the first time
66
Funds that sold out entirely
16
Price change that quarter
-68.9%
Funds holding puts (bearish)
0
Funds holding calls (bullish)
0

These are for people who want to dig. Skip them if they do not mean anything to you — the three numbers above are enough.

8,697 institutions have filed for this quarter. 13F permits late filing and a small number arrive in the weeks after the deadline, so the holder counts and changes below may tick up.

Fundamentals

PE (TTM)
3.6
EPS (TTM)
$15.39
EPS YoY
+0.3%
Revenue (TTM)
$0.7B
Revenue YoY
+28.3%
Net margin
ROE
Debt ratio
78.4%
FCF (TTM)
Dividend (TTM)
No dividend

As of 2025-12-31 · SEC filings (XBRL)

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