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East West Bancorp Inc.
EWBC NASDAQEast West Bancorp Inc. is a bank holding company that serves as the parent of East West Bank, a full-service financial institution focused on personal and commercial banking. East West Bancorp provides deposit products, lending solutions, treasury management, foreign exchange, trade finance, and wealth management services for individuals, businesses, and commercial clients. Its business is organized around consumer and business banking, commercial banking, and treasury-related activities, with a strong emphasis on serving customers that operate across the United States and Asia. The company supports a broad range of industries and client needs, including real estate, business expansion, and cross-border transactions. Headquartered in Pasadena, California, East West Bancorp plays a significant role in regional banking by connecting U.S. and Asia-linked markets through relationship-based financial services.
Price Overview
Price History (1 Year)
Revenue & Net Income Trend
| Period | Revenue | Net Income | Net Margin | YoY/QoQ |
|---|
Key Metrics TTM · through Jun 30, 2026
EPS (Diluted): 10.42
Total Equity: $9.25B
Shares: 138,720,667
Total Debt: $35.45M
Cash: $5.09B
EBITDA: N/A
Total Debt: $35.45M
Cash: $5.09B
Revenue: N/A
Revenue: N/A
Revenue: N/A
Total Equity: $9.25B
Tax Rate: 22.1%
Equity: $9.25B
Total Debt: $35.45M
Cash: $5.09B
Current Liabilities: N/A
Long-Term Debt: $35.45M
Total Debt: $35.45M
Total Equity: $9.25B
Shares: 138,720,667
Shares: 138,720,667
CapEx: -$112.53M
Shares: 138,720,667
Stock Price: $130.77
Net Income: $1.45B
Industry Benchmarks
Income Statement (Annual)
Last updated: Sep 6, 2026 4:18pm (31d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $1.8B | $2.3B | $2.6B | $2.6B | $2.9B |
| Cost of Revenue | — | — | — | — | — |
| Gross Profit | — | — | — | — | — |
| Operating Expenses | $451.3M | $497.1M | $611.8M | $596.5M | $650.5M |
| Operating Income | — | — | — | — | — |
| Net Income | $873.0M | $1.1B | $1.2B | $1.2B | $1.3B |
| EBITDA | — | — | — | — | — |
| EPS | $6.16 | $7.98 | $8.23 | $8.39 | $9.58 |
| EPS (Diluted) | $6.10 | $7.92 | $8.18 | $8.33 | $9.52 |
Balance Sheet (Annual)
Last updated: Sep 3, 2026 3:45pm (34d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | $3.9B | $3.5B | $4.6B | $5.3B | $4.2B |
| Total Current Assets | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total Assets | $60.9B | $64.1B | $69.6B | $76.0B | $80.4B |
| Current Liabilities | — | — | — | — | — |
| Long-Term Debt | $152.0M | $152.4M | $153.0M | $36.0M | $35.6M |
| Total Liabilities | $55.0B | $58.1B | $62.7B | $68.3B | $71.5B |
| Total Equity | $5.8B | $6.0B | $7.0B | $7.7B | $8.9B |
| Retained Earnings | $4.7B | $5.6B | $6.5B | $7.3B | $8.3B |
Cash Flow (Annual)
Last updated: Sep 6, 2026 4:18pm (31d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Cash Flow | $1.2B | $2.1B | $1.4B | $1.4B | $1.5B |
| Capital Expenditure | -$6.0M | — | — | — | — |
| Free Cash Flow | $1.2B | — | — | — | — |
| Acquisitions (net) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Net Debt Issued / (Repaid) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dividends Paid | — | — | — | — | — |
| Stock Buybacks | $0 | -$100.0M | -$82.2M | -$143.1M | -$115.6M |
| Net Change in Cash | -$105.0M | -$431.2M | $1.1B | $635.8M | -$1.1B |
Growth Trends (YoY %)
Last updated: Sep 6, 2026 4:18pm (31d ago)| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue Growth | +28.7% | +10.6% | +0.1% | +12.9% |
| Gross Profit Growth | — | — | — | — |
| Operating Income Growth | — | — | — | — |
| Net Income Growth | +29.2% | +2.9% | +0.4% | +13.7% |
| EBITDA Growth | — | — | — | — |
Dividend History (Last 20)
Last updated: Sep 6, 2026 4:12pm (31d ago)| Date | Dividend | Declaration | Record | Payment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-03 | $0.80 | — | — | — |
| 2026-05-04 | $0.80 | — | — | — |
| 2026-02-02 | $0.80 | — | — | — |
| 2025-11-03 | $0.60 | — | — | — |
| 2025-08-04 | $0.60 | — | — | — |
| 2025-05-02 | $0.60 | — | — | — |
| 2025-02-03 | $0.60 | — | — | — |
| 2024-11-04 | $0.55 | — | — | — |
| 2024-08-02 | $0.55 | — | — | — |
| 2024-05-02 | $0.55 | — | — | — |
| 2024-02-01 | $0.55 | — | — | — |
| 2023-10-31 | $0.48 | — | — | — |
| 2023-07-31 | $0.48 | — | — | — |
| 2023-04-28 | $0.48 | — | — | — |
| 2023-02-03 | $0.48 | — | — | — |
| 2022-10-31 | $0.40 | — | — | — |
| 2022-07-29 | $0.40 | — | — | — |
| 2022-04-29 | $0.40 | — | — | — |
| 2022-02-04 | $0.40 | — | — | — |
| 2021-10-29 | $0.33 | — | — | — |
Deep Analysis
Risk : Reward — upside vs downside from this company's own quarters
Not computed yetNarrative Economics
market-narrative step).
Claude Reading
The quarterly earnings step-up is real and worth acknowledging: net income jumped from the $290–310M band in H1 2025 to a sustained $356–368M range from Q3 2025 through Q2 2026, with the latest print of $363.7M the highest in the eight-quarter series. TTM earnings of roughly $1.45B against a $17.92B market cap gives a 12.4x multiple, and the 45.9% net margin on $2.90B of 2025 revenue is genuinely exceptional for a regional bank—most peers in the $2–3B revenue cohort run 25–35%. ROE at 16.6% and ROA at 1.78% put East West in the top quartile of its peer set. The balance sheet is clean in the traditional sense: $35.6M of senior debt against $8.90B of equity is a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.4%, and the $4.19B in cash and equivalents provides a liquidity cushion that matters in a stress scenario. On these fundamentals alone, the "mature earner" classification is correct, and the franchise quality is real.
Where I part ways with the synthesis is the $176.12 signal-adjusted fair value and the +34.7% upside call. That number is only reachable if you discount cash flows at roughly 10% and assume 5–6% perpetual earnings growth. Run the same DCF at a 12% discount rate—appropriate for a bank whose core revenue engine (US-Asia trade finance, cross-border deposits, Asian-American community banking) is the specific target of tariff escalation, potential secondary sanctions, and a Chinese property sector that has not yet stabilized—and the fair value compresses to approximately $130–135, which is where the stock already trades. The thesis evaluation itself scores the bull-vs-bear case at −2 on a −100 to +100 scale, with bull mass of 70.7 against bear mass of 72.6. That is a coin flip, not a 35% mispricing. The synthesis layer acknowledges "methods disagree—mixed signals" and then still stamps "undervalued" on the output. That is internally inconsistent. A −2 thesis score with "mixed signals" across valuation methods should produce "fairly valued," not "undervalued with 34.7% upside."
The data also has gaps that the models paper over. Revenue is reported as a dash in every quarterly row, so the "12.9% recent revenue YoY" and "6.3% revenue CAGR" figures in the momentum block are computed from annual data only, and the annual trajectory is lumpy: $2.56B in 2023, $2.57B in 2024 (essentially flat, +0.4%), then $2.90B in 2025 (+12.8%). That is not a smooth 6.3% CAGR; it is a flat year followed by a jump, and the jump may reflect one-time fee income or a rate-cycle tailwind that is now reversing. The FCF CAGR of 2.7% is materially below the earnings CAGR of 6.8%, which for a bank suggests that the earnings growth is being driven by non-cash items or balance-sheet expansion rather than organic fee and NII growth. The pre-flight layer cites a 14.9% ROE and 13.7x PE, while the canonical metrics show 16.58% ROE and 12.54x PE—different TTM windows producing different numbers, and neither is wrong, but the models should not be mixing them in the same narrative without flagging the discrepancy.
The contrarian case, even granting every bull point, is structural: the entire moat is "we connect US and Asia," and the policy environment is actively working to sever that connection. The narrative layer correctly identifies this as the single risk, but classifies it as "moderate" intensity and "moderate" durability. A tariff regime that adds 145% duties on Chinese goods, a Chinese property sector in a multi-year deleveraging, and a US political class that treats trade with China as a national-security threat are not cyclical headwinds that will rotate out. They are a regime shift. The 2.0x P/B multiple is already a premium to the regional-bank median of 0.9–1.2x book, and that premium is being paid for a franchise whose TAM is under active policy attack. The 2.29% dividend yield provides a modest floor, and the insider selling (22,511 shares across five transactions in May–June 2026, roughly $2.9M at current prices) is routine post-award diversification, not a red flag, but it is also not a vote of confidence. At $130.77, near the 52-week high of $137.47, the stock is not cheap. It is a quality bank priced for a world where US-Asia commerce continues to grow at 5% a year, and that is a world that may not arrive.
GPT Reading
Grok Reading
Advanced Analysis Forensic deep-dive · separate lenses
East West Bancorp has grown revenue from $1.80B in 2021 to $2.90B in 2025 (61 percent) while lifting net income from $873M to $1.33B and FCF from $1.16B to $1.50B. Operating cash flow runs at 1.35x net income, meaning reported earnings are well backed by real cash. The balance sheet carries $4.19B in liquid assets and the company is self-funding, so survival risk is effectively zero. Dilution is negative: diluted shares fell from 143.1M to 139.2M over four years, and buybacks cover 190 percent of stock-based compensation, concentrating per-share value. The Altman Z of 0.33 flagged by the module is a well-known false positive for banks; the model was calibrated for manufacturing and misreads a bank's normal leverage structure as distress. Insider tape shows six modest open-market sales totaling roughly $6.6M and a batch of routine 1,200-share compensation awards, with zero open-market purchases. No red flags, no dramatic events, just a steadily compounding regional franchise.
Verify before trusting this (4)
- Customer and geographic concentration in the 10-K segment notes to gauge how diversified the $2.9B revenue base truly is
- Loan-loss reserve adequacy and NPL trends to confirm the 1.35x OCF/NI is not masking credit deterioration
- Convertible or preferred instrument terms that could introduce future dilution beyond the current buyback program
- Regulatory capital ratios (CET1, leverage) to confirm the $4.19B liquid buffer is not being consumed by growth or stress
EWBC trades at $130.77 against a composite fair value of $168.37 (anchored PE) and a signal-adjusted FV of $176.12, implying roughly 29-35% upside. The earnings-quality score is clean (score 1, no haircut), and the company-quality lens confirms a solid, self-funding regional bank with four years of revenue and earnings growth, a shrinking share count, and cash flow that exceeds reported income. That combination supports a mid-single-digit PE multiple, and the anchored-PE method appears to be applying one in the 10-12x range, which is reasonable for a growing, well-run regional bank with a differentiated franchise.
The catch is the bear case, which is not a stretch: the entire moat is the US-Asia cross-border relationship, and tariffs, sanctions, decoupling pressure, and the Chinese property crisis are all active threats to that specific revenue and deposit engine. A pure PE multiple does not fully price in the risk that the franchise's structural advantage erodes over 3-5 years. If the moat narrows, the deserved multiple compresses toward the 8-9x range, which would put fair value closer to $140-150 and shrink the gap to 7-15%.
Net: the stock is below its deserved value on the numbers, and the discount is not manufactured. But it is not a 50%+ dislocation either. The 29-35% gap is real, the earnings are clean, and the execution is strong. The geopolitical risk is the one variable that could make the market's lower price the correct one. This is a modest discount with a genuine overhang, not a deep-value opportunity.
Verify before trusting this (5)
- Latest 10-Q: what percentage of net interest income and fee income is directly tied to Asia-related lending and trade finance, and is that share growing or shrinking quarter over quarter
- Management commentary on deposit mix: what share of the deposit base is Asian-American vs. general US, and is the Asian-American share stable or declining
- Credit quality in the Asia-exposed loan book: any uptick in NPLs or criticized loans in China, Southeast Asia, or Korean segments
- Share buyback pace: is the shrinking share count accelerating or decelerating, and is there a stated target
- Any new regulatory or sanctions-related disclosures that could restrict cross-border operations
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