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Cathay General Bancorp
Cathay General Bancorp (CATY) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Banks - Regional, part of the Financial Services sector. It is headquartered in Los Angeles, United States and has 1,268 employees. The company is worth $4.29B and trades at 11.8x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 13.2x. Revenue was $817.89M in fiscal 2025, up 12.1% from the year before. Net income was $315.12M. The share price is within 3% of its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 2.37%. 4 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Two Sigma (Two Sigma Investments), at $22.45M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position and 1 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +43.1% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,664.73▲ +66.5%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $48.39 | $47.61 | $44.57 | $40.79 | $42.99 | $32.19 | $38.05 | $33.53 | $42.17 | $38.03 | $31.33 | $25.59 | $26.73 | $19.53 | $14.93 | $16.70 | $7.55 | |
| P/E | 12.1x | 10.7x | 12.1x | 9.2x | 8.4x | 11.3x | 11.2x | 10.9x | 10.1x | 19.4x | 17.4x | 15.8x | 14.9x | 18.7x | 15.3x | 14.1x | — | — |
| P/S | 4.5x | 4.0x | 4.6x | 4.0x | 3.7x | 5.0x | 4.3x | 4.9x | 4.5x | 6.4x | 6.7x | 6.0x | 5.3x | 5.5x | 4.2x | 3.2x | 4.0x | 1.1x |
| P/B | 1.2x | 1.1x | 1.2x | 1.2x | 1.2x | 1.3x | 1.1x | 1.3x | 1.3x | 1.7x | 1.7x | 1.4x | 1.3x | 1.5x | 1.0x | 0.8x | 0.9x | 0.3x |
| EPS | $4.54 | $3.95 | $4.86 | $4.83 | $3.80 | $2.87 | $3.48 | $3.33 | $2.17 | $2.19 | $1.98 | $1.72 | $1.43 | $1.28 | $1.06 | -$0.06 | -$1.59 | |
| Dividend yield | 2.72% | 2.81% | 2.86% | 3.05% | 3.33% | 2.95% | 3.85% | 3.26% | 3.07% | 2.06% | 1.97% | 1.79% | 1.13% | 0.30% | 0.20% | 0.27% | 0.24% | 2.72% |
| Payout | 29.96% | 29.96% | 34.43% | 27.98% | 28.16% | 33.42% | 43.21% | 35.63% | 30.93% | 40.09% | 34.25% | 28.28% | 16.86% | 5.59% | 3.13% | 3.77% | — | — |
| Profit margin | 38.53% | 38.53% | 39.19% | 43.72% | 45.62% | 45.73% | 38.47% | 45.05% | 45.50% | 33.09% | 38.80% | 39.06% | 35.96% | 31.98% | 31.93% | 27.47% | 3.50% | -18.65% |
| ROE | 9.46% | 10.77% | 10.05% | 12.94% | 14.58% | 12.19% | 9.46% | 12.17% | 12.81% | 8.92% | 9.58% | 9.22% | 8.60% | 8.44% | 7.24% | 6.64% | 0.81% | -5.13% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 9.6% a year plus a 2.4% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 13.2 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 12.1 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 9.6% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Dividend growing 6.9% a year against a 8.4% required return, from the stock’s beta.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+49.8% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
Companies of similar size in Financial Services, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
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