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Banque Cantonale du Valais (WKBN.SW) — chart, structure and Closelook read

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Company snapshot — Banque Cantonale du Valais

WKBN.SW in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Banque Cantonale du Valais, trading as Walliser Kantonalbank, offers retail and business banking in Switzerland: savings and current accounts, mortgages, personal loans, cards, wealth management, pensions and e-banking services. It serves individuals and companies from its base in Sion and was established in 1917.
Where it sits in the stack
The bank sits outside our index; it belongs to the Banks - Regional sector within Financial Services, serving retail and business customers in one Swiss canton rather than the AI build-out.
Who it is priced against
No peer group is set for this name; it competes with other Swiss cantonal banks, and Zürcher Kantonalbank is the comparable name the market names most often.
Why Closelook tracks it
It carries no index seat, no Closelook score and no quotes in our editions, so the diary has not yet built coverage on this name.
What the diary watches
Whether the bank gains an index seat or a scored module, and whether its share price keeps tracking close to its 200-day average without a clear break either way.

Banque Cantonale du Valais (WKBN.SW) trades on the SW exchange in Switzerland.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for WKBN.SW, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Banks - Regional · Switzerland · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Banks - Regional · Switzerland

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against WKBN.SW on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 2.50%, annual · buybacks 7 m CHF in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What WKBN.SW pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 4.00 CHF per share · a 2.50% yield on the 2026-09-17 close 1 distribution, paid once a year 2026-09-17
  • Last distribution 4.00 CHF per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-04-28
  • By calendar year 2026: 4.00 CHF to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2026-04-28
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 63 m CHF 50% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 7 m CHF 0.3% of today's market value
  • Share count +0.8% in FY2025
  • Capital returned 70 m CHF in a year of negative free cash flow dividends and buybacks together

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is Banque Cantonale du Valais (WKBN.SW)?

Banque Cantonale du Valais trades as WKBN.SW on the SW exchange (Switzerland) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is WKBN.SW in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Banque Cantonale du Valais is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

Where does WKBN.SW trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades +0% vs the 50-day and +7.5% vs the 200-day average, 2.1% below the 52-week high and +29.7% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Banque Cantonale du Valais do?

Banque Cantonale du Valais, trading as Walliser Kantonalbank, offers retail and business banking in Switzerland: savings and current accounts, mortgages, personal loans, cards, wealth management, pensions and e-banking services. It serves individuals and companies from its base in Sion and was established in 1917. No peer group is set for this name; it competes with other Swiss cantonal banks, and Zürcher Kantonalbank is the comparable name the market names most often.

Where does Banque Cantonale du Valais sit in the AI build-out?

The bank sits outside our index; it belongs to the Banks - Regional sector within Financial Services, serving retail and business customers in one Swiss canton rather than the AI build-out. It carries no index seat, no Closelook score and no quotes in our editions, so the diary has not yet built coverage on this name.

Does Banque Cantonale du Valais pay a dividend?

Banque Cantonale du Valais has paid 4.00 CHF per share over the last twelve months, paid once a year, a trailing yield of 2.50% on the 2026-09-17 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 4.00 CHF on 2026-04-28. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 63 m CHF in dividends and bought back 7 m CHF of its own shares. The share count rose 0.8% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for WKBN.SW, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Banks - Regional. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.