East West Bancorp Inc
East West Bancorp Inc (EWBC) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Banks - Regional, part of the Financial Services sector. It is headquartered in Pasadena, United States and has 3,350 employees. The company is worth $18.17B and trades at 12.6x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 13.2x. Revenue was $2.93B in fiscal 2025, up 12.2% from the year before. Net income was $1.33B. The share price is 3.5% below its 52-week high of $137.47. It pays a dividend yielding 2.41%, and has raised its annual dividend for 8 years in a row in our records. 7 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $416.58M. In that quarter, 4 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.
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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.
▲ +64.8% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,809.02▲ +80.9%
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 |
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| Year-end price | $112.39 | $95.76 | $71.95 | $65.90 | $78.68 | $50.71 | $48.70 | $43.53 | $60.83 | $50.83 | $41.56 | $38.71 | $34.97 | $21.49 | $19.75 | $19.55 | $15.80 | |
| P/E |
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 19.1% 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 12.8 across this company’s own years on record.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Financial Services, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TPGTPG Inc. | $46.17 | 68.9x | 6.5x | 4.85% | 18.57% | $18.03B |
| PSPershing Square Inc | $44.48 | — | 13.1x | 0.92% | 2.53% | $17.79B |
| RGAReinsurance Group of America Inc | $272.05 | 12.0x | 1.3x | 1.44% | 11.69% | $17.77B |
| SOFISoFi Technologies, Inc. | $14.77 |
| 12.8x |
| 11.8x |
| 11.5x |
| 8.8x |
| 8.3x |
| 12.9x |
| 12.8x |
| 10.6x |
| 9.0x |
| 17.5x |
| 17.1x |
| 15.6x |
| 16.1x |
| 16.7x |
| 11.4x |
| 12.3x |
| 23.6x |
| 47.9x |
| P/S | 4.5x | 5.3x | 5.1x | 3.9x | 4.0x | 6.1x | 4.5x | 4.2x | 3.9x | 6.1x | 6.0x | 5.3x | 5.4x | 5.8x | 3.3x | 3.2x | 3.1x | 1.5x |
| P/B | 1.6x | 1.7x | 1.7x | 1.4x | 1.6x | 1.9x | 1.4x | 1.4x | 1.4x | 2.3x | 2.1x | 1.9x | 1.9x | 2.1x | 1.3x | 1.3x | 1.4x | 0.6x |
| EPS | $9.52 | $8.33 | $8.18 | $7.92 | $6.10 | $3.97 | $4.61 | $4.81 | $3.47 | $2.97 | $2.66 | $2.41 | $2.09 | $1.89 | $1.60 | $0.83 | $0.33 |
| Dividend yield | 1.86% | 2.14% | 2.30% | 2.67% | 2.43% | 1.68% | 2.17% | 2.17% | 1.98% | 1.32% | 1.57% | 1.92% | 1.86% | 1.72% | 1.86% | 0.81% | 0.20% | 0.32% |
| Payout | 23.05% | 25.21% | 26.41% | 23.47% | 20.20% | 21.64% | 27.71% | 22.89% | 17.88% | 23.05% | 26.94% | 30.08% | 29.88% | 28.71% | 21.16% | 10.00% | 4.82% | 15.15% |
| Profit margin | 35.21% | 45.20% | 44.59% | 44.57% | 48.12% | 48.03% | 35.21% | 39.88% | 43.87% | 35.04% | 35.53% | 33.93% | 33.61% | 33.96% | 30.84% | 26.83% | 17.62% | 8.74% |
| ROE | 12.59% | 14.89% | 15.09% | 16.71% | 18.85% | 14.96% | 10.78% | 13.43% | 15.91% | 13.16% | 12.59% | 12.32% | 12.11% | 12.40% | 11.80% | 10.61% | 7.78% | 3.35% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
Dividend growing 7.5% a year against a 9.0% 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.
5 methods answered, across 2 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+23.6% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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