Cathay General Bancorp (CATY): Price and Financial Metrics

CATY POWR Grades

• Momentum is the dimension where CATY ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 90.39% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for CATY is in Stability, which has been heading up over the past 155 days.
• CATY ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 36th percentile.

CATY Stock Summary

• CATY's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of 86.63% of US stocks.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -50.7%, Cathay General Bancorp's debt growth rate surpasses only 8.9% of about US stocks.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, CATY is more volatile than just 15.15% of stocks we're observing.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Cathay General Bancorp are SYBT, AUB, AMNB, HTBK, and EMCF.
• 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 4.9; this is 53.12% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• CATY's price/sales ratio has moved down 0.2 over the prior 243 months.
• CATY's price/sales ratio has moved down 0.2 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for CATY.

CATY Growth Metrics

Its 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 58.29%.
• The 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 173.3%.
• Its 4 year price growth rate is now at -9.83%.

CATY's revenue has moved up $50,775,000 over the prior 33 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
2021-09-30	652.881	324.382	293.873
2021-06-30	626.212	314.101	278.27
2021-03-31	581.709	316.493	255.392
2020-12-31	537.43	319.955	228.86
2020-09-30	536.018	344.351	225.344
2020-06-30	560.425	433.687	241.385

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.