With 1.06 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.25 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $76.76 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $74.91. The 52-week range on EWBC shows that it touched its highest point at $113.95 and its lowest point at $68.27 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $104.42. With its current market cap of 10.46 billion, EWBC has annualized dividend of $2.25 while the current yield stands at 2.96%. EWBC paid its most recent dividend on 1738540800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1738540800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.94.
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 -1.63%, but this was down by -13.94% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -24.50% while six-month performance fell -15.01%. The stock gained 4.86% in the past year, while it has lost -20.74% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for EWBC yields 8.33 with Next year EPS estimates of 9.46. For the next quarter, that number is 2.05. This implies an EPS growth rate of 3.71% for this year and 9.52% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 7.52% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 12.55%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 138.44 million EWBC shares are outstanding with a float of 136.41 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 4.34 million, which was 313.00000000000006 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Christopher J. Del Moral-Niles CFA as the firm’s Executive VP & CFO, Mr. Parker L. Shi serves as its Executive VP & COO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.92977995 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 90.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 105.75. Based on these targets, EWBC could surge 68.64% to reach the target high and rise by 18.58% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 39.33% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. 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.
