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CATY Cathay General Bancorp
NASDAQ USD Financial Services
Latest close
As of 30 Oct 2026
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Market facts
- Market cap
- 4B
- P/E ratio
- 11.94
- Analyst target
- 67.2
- Dividend yield
- 2.4%
- Beta
- 0.88
Profile
Instrument facts
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- Currency
- USD
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Banks - Regional
- ISIN
- Not available
- Market cap
- 4B
- P/E ratio
- 11.94
- Analyst target
- 67.2
- Dividend yield
- 2.4%
- Beta
- 0.88
About
About Cathay General Bancorp
Cathay General Bancorp operates as the holding company for Cathay Bank that offers various commercial banking products and services to individuals, professionals, and small to medium-sized businesses in the United States. It offers savings accounts, checking accounts, money market deposit accounts, certificates of deposit, individual retirement accounts, and public funds deposits, and acceptance of checking, savings, demand deposits, time deposits, real estate, and consumer loans. The company also provides loan products, such as commercial real estate loans, commercial loans, small business administration loans, residential mortgage loans, real estate construction loans, and home equity lines of credit, and installment loans to individuals for household and other consumer expenditures. In addition, it offers trade financing, letter of credit, wire transfer, foreign currency spot and forward contract, safe deposit, overdraft, cash checking, automatic teller machine, Internet banking, investment, and other customary bank services, as well as investment products and services, such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, insurance, annuities, and advisory services. The company was formerly known as Cathay Bancorp, Inc. and changed its name to Cathay General Bancorp in November 2003. Cathay General Bancorp was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Research context
Cathay General Bancorp appears in PyInvesting’s US Stock catalogue. The price history above describes this recorded instrument; it does not by itself identify a company’s business or establish a continuous investment return.
- Currency
- USD
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Banks - Regional
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5 years, 6 months ago
Cathay General Bancorp is currently in a long term uptrend where the price is trading 5.8% above its 200 day moving average.
From a valuation standpoint, the stock is 38.2% cheaper than other stocks from the Financial Services sector with a price to sales ratio of 5.6.
Cathay General Bancorp's total revenue rose by 0.9% to $151M since the same quarter in the previous year.
Its net income has increased by 5.2% to $71M since the same quarter in the previous year.
Finally, its free cash flow fell by 22.6% to $85M since the same quarter in the previous year.
Based on the above factors, Cathay General Bancorp gets an overall score of 4/5.