With 0.76 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.91 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $100.49 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $98.16. The 52-week range on EWBC shows that it touched its highest point at $113.95 and its lowest point at $67.27 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $117.00. With its current market cap of 13.79 billion, EWBC has annualized dividend of $2.20 while the current yield stands at 2.21%. EWBC paid its most recent dividend on 1730678400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1730678400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.29.
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 up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 4.34%, but this was down by -2.06% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 10.39% while six-month performance rose 22.54%. The stock gained 41.97% in the past year, while it has gained 3.90% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for EWBC yields 7.93 with Next year EPS estimates of 8.63. For the next quarter, that number is 2.11. This implies an EPS growth rate of 2.06% for this year and 3.34% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 5.08% 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, 138.61 million EWBC shares are outstanding with a float of 137.22 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 3.41 million, which was 246.00000999999997 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Dominic Ng CPA 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 0.92885 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 10 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 9 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With EWBC analysts setting a high price target of 128.0 and a low target of 100.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 117.0. Based on these targets, EWBC could surge 28.66% to reach the target high and rise by 0.51% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 17.6% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $8.47257 being high and $8.2834 being low. For EWBC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $8.34314.
