East West Bancorp, Inc. (EWBC): Price and Financial Metrics

EWBC POWR Grades

• Sentiment is the dimension where EWBC ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 83.59% of US stocks.
• EWBC's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 52 weeks.
• EWBC ranks lowest in Value; there it ranks in the 9th percentile.

EWBC Stock Summary

• EWBC's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of 91.97% of US stocks.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -82.35%, East West Bancorp Inc's debt growth rate surpasses merely 3.33% of about US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for EWBC comes in at 18.72% -- higher than that of 88.57% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to East West Bancorp Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be COLB, TBK, PNFP, FSBW, and BSVN.
• EWBC's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit East West Bancorp Inc's official web site, go to www.eastwestbank.com.

EWBC Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Financial Services stock, EWBC's price/sales ratio is 416.67% higher, now standing at 6.2.
• Over the past 243 months, EWBC's price/earnings ratio has gone down 1.7.
• EWBC's EV/EBIT ratio has moved down 5.3 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for EWBC.

EWBC Growth Metrics

• Its 5 year price growth rate is now at 15.09%.
• The 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 52.48%.
• Its 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 48.92%.

EWBC's revenue has moved up $112,535,000 over the prior 30 months.

The table below shows EWBC'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	1,645.697	826.22	753.357
2021-03-31	1,485.762	973.137	627.967
2020-12-31	1,402.087	693.325	567.797
2020-09-30	1,419.22	777.424	591.928
2020-06-30	1,438.507	716.744	603.807
2020-03-31	1,539.378	688.291	654.835

EWBC'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.

• EWBC has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 27.71% of graded US stocks.
• EWBC's asset turnover comes in at 0.03 -- ranking 378th of 433 Banking stocks.
• FBNC, BANR, and HTLF are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with EWBC.

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