Cathay General Bancorp (CATY): Price and Financial Metrics

CATY POWR Grades

• CATY scores best on the Momentum dimension, with a Momentum rank ahead of 89.62% of US stocks.
• CATY's strongest trending metric is Momentum; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• CATY's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 29.8% of US stocks).

CATY Stock Summary

• Equity multiplier, or assets relative to shareholders' equity, comes in at 8.07 for Cathay General Bancorp; that's greater than it is for 87.34% of US stocks.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -40.87%, Cathay General Bancorp's debt growth rate surpasses only 10.09% of about US stocks.
• Cathay General Bancorp's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 11.11%, greater than the shareholder yield of 85.52% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to CATY, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are AUB, AMNB, SYBT, EQBK, and BFST.
• 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 4.9; 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

The 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 58.29%.
• The 5 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 $132,348,000 over the prior 15 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
2021-12-31	668.366	334.317	298.304
2021-09-30	652.881	324.382	293.873
2021-06-30	626.212	314.101	278.27
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

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.