With 0.8 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.92 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $104.75 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $102.64. 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 $116.83. With its current market cap of 14.36 billion, EWBC has annualized dividend of $2.20 while the current yield stands at 2.12%. 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 0.09%, but this was up by 7.15% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 4.81% while six-month performance rose 17.38%. The stock gained 36.23% in the past year, while it has gained 8.18% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for EWBC yields 8.34 with Next year EPS estimates of 9.61. For the next quarter, that number is 2.06. This implies an EPS growth rate of 4.15% for this year and 10.80% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 138.44 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 0.92964995 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 97.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 116.83333. Based on these targets, EWBC could surge 23.56% to reach the target high and fall by -6.36% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 12.78% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $8.468 being high and $8.28868 being low. For EWBC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $8.34845. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.25 and the low estimate is $2.09. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $2.16.
