In last trading session, East West Bancorp, Inc (NASDAQ:EWBC) saw 0.76 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 0.90. Company’s recent per share price level of $85.26 trading at -$0.71 or -0.83% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $11.75B. That closing price of EWBC’s stock is at a discount of -33.65% from its 52-week high price of $113.95 and is indicating a premium of 19.93% from its 52-week low price of $68.27. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 1.38 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 1.28 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For East West Bancorp, Inc (EWBC), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 2.00. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 10 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 1 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 9 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
East West Bancorp, Inc (NASDAQ:EWBC) trade information
Upright in the red during last session for losing -0.83%, in the last five days EWBC remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Wednesday, 04/23/25 when the stock touched $85.26 price level, adding 6.86% to its value on the day. East West Bancorp, Inc’s shares saw a change of -10.96% in year-to-date performance and have moved 10.11% in past 5-day. East West Bancorp, Inc (NASDAQ:EWBC) showed a performance of -7.57% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 4.34 million shares which calculate 3.06 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 125 to the stock, which implies a rise of 31.79% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 125 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 125. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -46.61% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -46.61% for stock’s current value.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 12.55% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 5.70% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 8.13%.
EWBC Dividends
East West Bancorp, Inc is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Apr-21 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 2.64%, the share has a forward dividend of 2.25 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 2.42%.
East West Bancorp, Inc (NASDAQ:EWBC)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 1.05% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 94.89 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 95.89%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 94.89% institutions for East West Bancorp, Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at EWBC for having 14.18 million shares of worth $1.04 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 10.2038 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 12.7 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 9.1388 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $930.1 million.
On the other hand, iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 4.53 shares of worth $386.06 million or 3.27% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 4.32 shares on Dec 31, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $368.45 million in the company or a holder of 3.12% of company’s stock.
