Taking the lead: East West Bancorp, Inc. (EWBC)

With 0.71 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.71 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $81.7 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $80.58. The 52-week range on EWBC shows that it touched its highest point at $89.75 and its lowest point at $49.59 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $97.53. With its current market cap of 11.26 billion, EWBC has annualized dividend of $2.13 while the current yield stands at 2.62%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.29.

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Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of EWBC was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.42%, but this was down by -0.94% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 13.23% while six-month performance rose 2.47%. The stock gained 55.52% in the past year, while it has gained 12.87% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for EWBC yields 7.81 with Next year EPS estimates of 8.54. For the next quarter, that number is 2.06. This implies an EPS growth rate of 0.33% for this year and 4.09% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 8.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 11.19%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 140.03 million EWBC shares are outstanding with a float of 137.17 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-09-13, short shares totaled 4.88 million, which was 352.0 higher than short shares on 1723680000. In addition to Mr. Dominic Ng as the firm’s Chairman, President & CEO, Mr. Christopher J. Del Moral-Niles CFA serves as its Executive VP & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.9278 of EWBC’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for EWBC since 0 analysts follow the stock currently. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential.