During the last session, East West Bancorp, Inc (NASDAQ:EWBC)’s traded shares were 0.81 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 0.96. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $106.95, reflecting an intraday loss of -1.10% or -$1.19. The 52-week high for the EWBC share is $113.95, that puts it down -6.55 from that peak though still a striking 36.17% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $68.27. The company’s market capitalization is $14.74B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 0.88 million shares, and the average trade volume was 912.56K shares over the past three months.
East West Bancorp, Inc (EWBC) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 1.87. EWBC has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 10 analysts who have looked at this stock. 1 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 9 recommend a Buy rating for it. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be 2.24.
East West Bancorp, Inc (NASDAQ:EWBC) trade information
East West Bancorp, Inc (EWBC) registered a -1.10% downside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -1.10% in intraday trading to $106.95, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -1.76%, and it has moved by 12.27% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 11.69%. The short interest in East West Bancorp, Inc (NASDAQ:EWBC) is 5.44 million shares and it means that shorts have 7.66 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $104, which implies a decrease of -2.84% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $84 and $125 respectively. As a result, EWBC is trading at a discount of -16.88% off the target high and 21.46% off the low.
East West Bancorp, Inc (EWBC) estimates and forecasts
In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will increase 7.83% compared to the previous financial year.
As companies strive to predict their financial trajectories, we turn our attention to the forthcoming financial quarter. Here are the insights gathered from industry analysts. Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be 702.02M as predicted by 8 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 8 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 710.07M by the end of current fiscal year. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled 637.9M and 657.48M respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to grow by 10.05% and then jump by 8.00% in the coming quarter.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 12.55%. While earnings are projected to return 7.01% in 2025, the next five years will return 7.89% per annum.
EWBC Dividends
East West Bancorp, Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-Apr-22. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for East West Bancorp, Inc is 2.30, with the dividend yield indicating at 2.15 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years. The average dividend yield of the company for the last 5 years is 2.39%.
East West Bancorp, Inc (NASDAQ:EWBC)’s Major holders
East West Bancorp, Inc insiders own 1.06% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 93.52%, with the float percentage being 94.52%. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the largest shareholder of the company, while 678.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 14.18 million shares (or 10.2038% of all shares), a total value of $1.04 billion in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 12.7 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 9.1388% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $930.1 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of East West Bancorp, Inc (EWBC) shares are iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . Data provided on May 31, 2025 indicates that iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF owns about 4.5 shares. This amounts to just over 3.27 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $481.44 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 4.38, or about 3.18% of the stock, which is worth about $468.1 million.
