Cathay General Bancorp (CATY): Price and Financial Metrics

CATY POWR Grades

• CATY scores best on the Momentum dimension, with a Momentum rank ahead of 92.62% of US stocks.
• CATY's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• CATY ranks lowest in Quality; there it ranks in the 42nd percentile.

CATY Stock Summary

• CATY's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of 88.09% of US stocks.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 161.44%, CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP's debt growth rate surpasses 91.46% of about US stocks.
• The volatility of CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP's share price is greater than that of just 6.66% US stocks with at least 200 days of trading history.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP are AUB, CHCO, EFSC, AMNB, and FULT.
• CATY's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP's official web site, go to www.cathaygeneralbancorp.com.

CATY Valuation Summary

• CATY's price/sales ratio is 4.6; this is 253.85% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• Over the past 243 months, CATY's EV/EBIT ratio has gone down 3.5.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for CATY.

CATY Growth Metrics

Its 4 year revenue growth rate is now at 26.69%.
• The 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 133.68%.
• Its 3 year price growth rate is now at 7.97%.

Over the past 33 months, CATY's revenue has gone up $108,565,000.

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.