Hope Bancorp, Inc. (HOPE): Price and Financial Metrics

HOPE POWR Grades

• Value is the dimension where HOPE ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 88.49% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for HOPE is in Quality, which has been heading down over the past 179 days.
• HOPE ranks lowest in Sentiment; there it ranks in the 21st percentile.

HOPE Stock Summary

• The price/operating cash flow metric for HOPE BANCORP INC is higher than just 11.85% of stocks in our set with a positive cash flow.
• HOPE's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of 88.76% of US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for HOPE comes in at -39.3% -- higher than that of just 12.96% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to HOPE, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are TBNK, CUBI, BANC, BY, and SBSI.
• Visit HOPE's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.bankofhope.com.

HOPE Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Financial Services stock, HOPE's price/sales ratio is 100% higher, now standing at 2.
• HOPE's EV/EBIT ratio has moved down 2.6 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for HOPE.

HOPE Growth Metrics

Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -64.87%.
• Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -27.47%.
• Its 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -7.15%.

Over the past 67 months, HOPE's revenue has gone up $157,502,000.

The table below shows HOPE'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	610.702	468.582	218.197
2022-06-30	604.274	448.972	219.948
2022-03-31	597.843	449.755	221.623
2021-12-31	568.564	324.211	204.572
2021-09-30	528.32	266.518	181.268
2021-06-30	490.557	207.992	156.259

HOPE'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.

• HOPE has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 35.52% of graded US stocks.
• HOPE's asset turnover comes in at 0.029 -- ranking 388th of 428 Banking stocks.
• CCBG, TSC, and FITB are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with HOPE.

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