With 1.26 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.85 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $99.16 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $95.775. 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 $118.79. With its current market cap of 13.62 billion, EWBC has annualized dividend of $2.30 while the current yield stands at 2.33%. EWBC paid its most recent dividend on 1746144000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1754265600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.96.
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 -4.64%, but this was down by -8.05% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 13.73% while six-month performance fell -4.62%. The stock gained 3.17% in the past year, while it has gained 11.95% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for EWBC yields 8.56 with Next year EPS estimates of 9.58. For the next quarter, that number is 2.32. This implies an EPS growth rate of 7.76% for this year and 6.72% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 7.68% 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, 137.82 million EWBC shares are outstanding with a float of 136.50 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-07-15, short shares totaled 4.46 million, which was 323.00000000000006 higher than short shares on 1749772800. 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 0.93257004 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 140.0 and a low target of 100.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 119.23077. Based on these targets, EWBC could surge 41.7% to reach the target high and rise by 1.21% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 20.68% 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. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.43 and the low estimate is $2.2. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $2.33.
