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

HOPE POWR Grades

• Momentum is the dimension where HOPE ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 95.04% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for HOPE is in Growth, which has been heading down over the past 179 days.
• HOPE ranks lowest in Sentiment; there it ranks in the 12th percentile.

HOPE Stock Summary

• Equity multiplier, or assets relative to shareholders' equity, comes in at 8.98 for HOPE BANCORP INC; that's greater than it is for 88.71% of US stocks.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 151.77%, HOPE BANCORP INC's debt growth rate surpasses 91.21% of about US stocks.
• HOPE BANCORP INC's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is -48.56%, greater than the shareholder yield of merely 10.47% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to HOPE, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are BANC, FSBW, TBNK, BY, and FVCB.
• 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 107.69% higher, now standing at 2.7.
• Over the past 243 months, HOPE's price/sales ratio has gone up 0.4.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for HOPE.

HOPE Growth Metrics

Its 2 year price growth rate is now at 60.85%.
• Its 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 40.03%.
• Its 4 year price growth rate is now at -50.44%.

Over the past 15 months, HOPE's revenue has gone up $120,145,000.

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.