Cathay General Bancorp (CATY): Price and Financial Metrics

CATY POWR Grades

• CATY scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 83.82% of US stocks.
• CATY's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving up over the last 48 weeks.
• CATY's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 34.58% of US stocks).

CATY Stock Summary

• CATY's went public 30.79 years ago, making it older than 83.53% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• Equity multiplier, or assets relative to shareholders' equity, comes in at 7.89 for Cathay General Bancorp; that's greater than it is for 85.74% of US stocks.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -52.37%, Cathay General Bancorp's debt growth rate surpasses just 8.7% of about US stocks.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Cathay General Bancorp, a group of peers worth examining would be FMNB, EFSC, EMCF, SYBT, and PBCT.
• 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

• Its 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 58.29%.
• Its year over year revenue growth rate is now at -1.66%.
• Its 4 year revenue growth rate is now at 33.6%.

Over the past 70 months, CATY's revenue has gone up $216,438,000.

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
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
2020-03-31	591.517	442.814	259.308

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 43.89% of graded US stocks.
• CATY's asset turnover comes in at 0.033 -- ranking 329th of 437 Banking stocks.
• WTFC, USB, and PACW are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with CATY.

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