East West Bancorp Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:EWBC)

8 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for East West Bancorp in the last twelve months. There are currently 8 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" EWBC shares.
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8 brokers have issued 1-year price targets for East West Bancorp's stock. Their EWBC share price targets range from $58.00 to $81.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $70.90 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 6.1% from the stock's current price.
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East West Bancorp's stock was trading at $65.90 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, EWBC stock has increased by 1.4% and is now trading at $66.82.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 25th 2024.
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East West Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:EWBC) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 19th. The financial services provider reported $2.02 earnings per share for the quarter, meeting the consensus estimate of $2.02. The financial services provider earned $648 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $643.22 million. East West Bancorp had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 19.98% and a net margin of 33.62%. East West Bancorp's revenue for the quarter was up 3.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $2.08 earnings per share.

East West Bancorp announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 19th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, November 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.48 per share on Wednesday, November 15th. This represents a $1.92 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.87%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, October 31st.
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East West Bancorp (NASDAQ:EWBC) pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.92%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 3 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 21.67%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, EWBC will have a dividend payout ratio of 24.37% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of East West Bancorp (NASDAQ:EWBC) stock in their portfolio include SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF (KRE), iShares U.S. Regional Banks ETF (IAT), Invesco KBW Bank ETF (KBWB), SPDR S&P Bank ETF (KBE), First Trust Financial AlphaDEX Fund (FXO), Invesco S&P MidCap Quality ETF (XMHQ), Direxion Daily Regional Banks Bull 3x Shares (DPST) and WBI BullBear Value 3000 ETF (WBIF).

336 employees have rated East West Bancorp Chief Executive Officer Dominic Ng on Glassdoor.com. Dominic Ng has an approval rating of 86% among the company's employees. 84.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at East West Bancorp to a friend.

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East West Bancorp's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include FMR LLC (5.97%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.74%), Schroder Investment Management Group (1.70%), Fuller & Thaler Asset Management Inc. (1.40%), Boston Partners (1.29%) and Principal Financial Group Inc. (1.24%). Insiders that own company stock include Dominic Ng, Douglas Paul Krause, Gary Teo, Irene H Oh, Iris S Chan, Jack C Liu, Jack C Liu, Manuel Pham Alvarez, Molly Campbell, Parker Shi and Rudolph Estrada.
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