Cathay General Bancorp (CATY): Price and Financial Metrics

CATY POWR Grades

• Stability is the dimension where CATY ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 56.26% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for CATY is in Growth, which has been heading down over the past 177 days.
• CATY's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 28.1% of US stocks).

CATY Stock Summary

• With a price/earnings ratio of 6.55, CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP P/E ratio is greater than that of about just 14.12% of stocks in our set with positive earnings.
• Equity multiplier, or assets relative to shareholders' equity, comes in at 8.86 for CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP; that's greater than it is for 87.01% of US stocks.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 249.94%, CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP's debt growth rate surpasses 95.22% of about US stocks.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to CATY, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are HTBI, FULT, FBMS, FMNB, and AMAL.
• Visit CATY's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.cathaygeneralbancorp.com.

CATY Valuation Summary

• CATY's price/sales ratio is 3.3; this is 43.48% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• Over the past 243 months, CATY's EV/EBIT ratio has gone down 8.7.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for CATY.

CATY Growth Metrics

The 4 year price growth rate now stands at -32.67%.
• Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -28.29%.
• Its 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 45.78%.

CATY's revenue has moved up $145,839,000 over the prior 49 months.

The table below shows CATY's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30	735.222	466.743	338.365
2022-06-30	691.467	347.044	311.727
2022-03-31	673.77	329.203	299.948
2021-12-31	668.366	334.317	298.304
2021-09-30	652.881	324.382	293.873
2021-06-30	626.212	314.101	278.27

CATY's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• CATY has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 42.38% of graded US stocks.
• CATY's asset turnover comes in at 0.033 -- ranking 322nd of 428 Banking stocks.
• WTFC, PACW, and LBAI are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with CATY.

The table below shows CATY's key quality metrics over time.