East West Bancorp, Inc (NASDAQ: EWBC) is 33.11% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $68.27 and a high of $113.95 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The EWBC stock was last observed hovering at around $108.96 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -2.58%.
Currently trading at $106.38, the stock is 0.31% and 7.97% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.66 million and changing -2.37% at the moment leaves the stock 11.66% off its SMA200. EWBC registered 11.09% gain for a year compared to 6-month loss of 2.57%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $98.526 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $95.2742.
The stock witnessed a 9.10% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 34.30%, and is 0.82% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 2.48% over the week and 2.39% over the month.
East West Bancorp, Inc (EWBC) has around 3100 employees, a market worth around $14.66B and $4.52B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 12.43 and Fwd P/E is 11.12. Profit margin for the company is 26.37%. Distance from 52-week low is 55.82% and -6.64% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (10.09%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 7.66% this year
692.0 institutions hold shares in East West Bancorp, Inc (EWBC), with institutional investors hold 96.29% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 137.82M, and float is at 136.46M with Short Float at 3.98%. Institutions hold 95.27% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 14.18 million shares valued at $1.04 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 10.2038 of the EWBC Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 12.7 million shares valued at $930.1 million to account for 9.1388 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INVESTORS which holds 9.66 million shares representing 6.9509 and valued at over $707.22 million, while FMR LLC holds 5.5737 of the shares totaling 7.75 million with a market value of $567.26 million.
East West Bancorp, Inc (EWBC) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Kim Lisa L., the company’s Executive Vice President. SEC filings show that Kim Lisa L. sold 2,100 shares of the company’s common stock on May 15 ’25 at a price of $95.04 per share for a total of $0.2 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 14849.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on May 12 ’25, NG DOMINIC (Chief Executive Officer) disposed off 40,000 shares at an average price of $96.43 for $3.86 million. The insider now directly holds 928,314 shares of East West Bancorp, Inc (EWBC).
