Hancock Whitney Corp
Hancock Whitney Corp (HWC) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Banks - Regional, part of the Financial Services sector. It is headquartered in Gulfport, United States and has 3,803 employees. The company is worth $5.89B and trades at 14.8x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 13.2x. Revenue was $1.52B in fiscal 2025, up 4.8% from the year before. Net income was $486.07M. The share price is 8.3% below its 52-week high of $80.13. It pays a dividend yielding 2.72%. 6 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 $37.57M. In that quarter, 4 of them opened or added to the position and 2 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.
▲ +52.8% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,693.04▲ +69.3%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 18 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 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $63.68 | $54.72 | $48.59 | $48.39 | $50.02 | $34.02 | $43.88 | $34.65 | $49.50 | $43.10 | $25.17 | $30.70 | $36.68 | $31.73 | $31.97 | $34.86 | $43.81 | $45.46 |
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 2.1% a year plus a 2.7% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 13.2 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 15.3 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 2.1% 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 6.2% a year against a 8.9% required return, from the stock’s beta.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESNTEssent Group Ltd. | $65.70 | 9.2x | 1.0x | 2.13% | 12.01% | $5.9B |
| GBCIGlacier Bancorp Inc | $45.99 | 18.4x | 1.4x | 3.04% | 7.95% | $5.99B |
| CACCCredit Acceptance Corp | $558.90 | 12.3x | 3.6x | 0.00% | 31.93% | $5.8B |
| MKTXMarketaxess Holdings Inc | $164.66 |
| P/E | 15.3x | 11.2x | 10.4x | 10.8x | 8.1x | 9.6x | — | 11.8x | 9.3x | 20.0x | 23.0x | 15.3x | 14.6x | 19.0x | 18.1x | 27.8x | 24.9x | 19.4x | 22.3x |
| P/S | 3.0x | 3.4x | 3.3x | 3.0x | 3.0x | 3.3x | 2.3x | 3.2x | 2.6x | 4.0x | 4.0x | 2.3x | 2.8x | 3.3x | 2.8x | 2.8x | 1.3x | 4.2x | — |
| P/B | 1.1x | 1.2x | 1.1x | 1.1x | 1.2x | 1.2x | 0.9x | 1.1x | 1.0x | 1.5x | 1.3x | 0.8x | 1.0x | 1.2x | 1.1x | 1.1x | 1.5x | 1.9x | — |
| EPS | $5.67 | $5.28 | $4.50 | $5.98 | $5.22 | -$0.54 | $3.72 | $3.72 | $2.48 | $1.87 | $1.64 | $2.10 | $1.93 | $1.75 | $1.15 | $1.40 | $2.26 | $2.04 |
| Dividend yield | 2.68% | 2.83% | 2.74% | 2.47% | 2.23% | 2.16% | 3.17% | 2.46% | 2.94% | 1.94% | 2.23% | 3.81% | 3.13% | 2.62% | 3.03% | 3.00% | 2.75% | 2.19% | 2.11% |
| Payout | 42.48% | 31.75% | 28.41% | 26.67% | 18.06% | 20.69% | — | 29.03% | 27.42% | 38.71% | 51.34% | 58.54% | 45.71% | 49.74% | 54.86% | 83.48% | 68.57% | 42.48% | 47.06% |
| Profit margin | 19.65% | 32.08% | 31.87% | 28.32% | 37.94% | 35.70% | -3.57% | 27.03% | 28.55% | 20.34% | 16.41% | 15.24% | 19.91% | 17.62% | 15.73% | 7.84% | 5.31% | 19.38% | 19.38% |
| ROE | 8.20% | 10.90% | 11.16% | 10.32% | 15.68% | 12.62% | -1.31% | 9.44% | 10.51% | 7.47% | 5.49% | 5.45% | 7.11% | 6.74% | 6.19% | 3.24% | 6.09% | 8.93% | 10.72% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
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.
-5.8% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| 19.5x |
| 4.7x |
| 1.89% |
| 23.14% |
| $5.8B |
| IFSIntercorp Financial Services Inc. | $54.60 | 10.1x | 1.7x | 3.30% | 17.23% | $6.03B |
| HOMBHome Bancshares Inc | $30.15 | 12.1x | 1.3x | 2.85% | 11.10% | $6.03B |