With 1.09 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.27 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $87.1 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $85.1. 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 $100.25. With its current market cap of 11.88 billion, EWBC has annualized dividend of $2.25 while the current yield stands at 2.61%. EWBC paid its most recent dividend on 1738540800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1746144000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.90.
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 up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 13.04%, but this was down by -5.11% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -17.01% while six-month performance fell -9.83%. The stock gained 11.70% in the past year, while it has lost -9.95% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for EWBC yields 8.38 with Next year EPS estimates of 9.54. For the next quarter, that number is 2.21. This implies an EPS growth rate of 5.70% for this year and 8.35% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 8.13% 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, 137.80 million EWBC shares are outstanding with a float of 136.34 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-04-15, short shares totaled 4.86 million, which was 353.0 higher than short shares on 1741910400. 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 0.92877996 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 112.0 and a low target of 89.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 100.45455. Based on these targets, EWBC could surge 29.89% to reach the target high and rise by 3.21% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 16.5% 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 $2.34 and the low estimate is $2.1. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $2.25.
