Insider buying last 90 days
No open-market insider purchases were filed for EWBC in the last 90 days.
From Form 4 filings, dated to when each was filed.
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East West Bancorp (EWBC) Stock Analysis & Forecast
Sep 28 close
$126.72−0.51 (−0.4%)
Gekko Brief
AI summaryEast West Bancorp's week has centered on its capital returns and valuation debate following Q2 results. The company raised its quarterly dividend by 33%, supported by a 1.75% return on average assets and 16.88% return on average tangible common equity, prompting coverage on whether it can balance growth with higher distributions and buybacks. Separately, Citigroup lowered its price target to $152.00 from $156.00 while maintaining a "buy" rating, and commentary continues to note the stock's 17.7% six-month gain alongside a Q2 revenue beat of $791.1 million.
EWBC closed at $126.72, down 0.4%, sitting between its 50-day average of $130.25 and 200-day average of $121.53. The GekkoIndex reads 61, placing the stock in the Accumulation zone, down 3.3 points over five sessions. The gap to Gekko Fair Value stands at -8.2%, with fair value set at $138.
Earnings are scheduled for 20 October, 21 days out, falling inside a typical 20-trading-day holding window; the last report showed EPS of $2.63 against a $2.61 estimate, with a -1.7% reaction, and the company has beaten estimates in 7 of 8 recent quarters. No insider, Congress, or unusual options activity appears in the current windows, though one billionaire holder is on record. Seasonality over five years shows an average 20-day return of 3.3% from this point, with gains in 2 of those years. Analyst consensus stands at 10 buy, 3 hold, 0 sell, with a consensus target of $149.62.
Written by AI and checked automatically against the figures on this page. Generated Sep 29, 2026 from the data above.
East West Bancorp price vs fair value
Close $126.72200-day averageGekko Fair Value $138.00
East West Bancorp quick facts
- Market cap
- $17.36B
- P/E ratio
- 12.2
- Forward P/E
- 12.7
- EPS, TTM
- $10.41
- Revenue, TTM
- $2.89B
- Profit margin
- 50.1%
- Dividend yield
- 2.23%
- Beta
- 0.93
- Volume
- 856,179 avg 830,042
- 1-year return
- +17.4%
- Typical daily move
- ±1.9%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±6%
- 50-day average
- $130.25
- 200-day average
- $121.53
- Next earnings
- Oct 20 after close
- Shares outstanding
- 137.0M
East West Bancorp swing-trade checklist
East West Bancorp scores 2 supportive, 2 mixed and 1 headwind across the 5 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
2 supportive2 mixed1 headwind
- Trendmixed
Averages disagree
Close $126.72 sits between the 50-day ($130.25) and 200-day ($121.53) averages, or the averages disagree.
See the chart - GekkoIndexsupportive
61, Accumulation
Reading 61 is in the Accumulation zone.
See the GekkoIndex - Fair valuesupportive
8.2% below
Price is 8.2% below Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% below).
See fair value - Smart moneyno data
No data
No insider, Congress or unusual options activity in the window.
See smart money - Earnings riskheadwind
Reports in 21 days
Reports on Oct 20, 2026, 21 days away — inside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings - Seasonalitymixed
+3.3% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged +3.3% over 5 years, rising in 2 of them.
See seasonality
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East West Bancorp stock chart and price history
East West Bancorp closed at $126.72 on Sep 28, 2026, +17.4% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $92.67 to $137.47.
Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
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Performance Breakdown
- 1 month
- −2.3%
- 3 months
- −1.8%
- 6 months
- +21.9%
- 1 year
- +17.4%
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About East West Bancorp
East West Bancorp is the holding company behind East West Bank, which provides banking services to both individual customers and businesses. Its offerings include checking, savings, money market, and certificate of deposit accounts, along with mortgages, home equity loans, commercial and residential property financing, construction loans, trade finance, and equipment and asset-based lending. The company is particularly known for helping businesses manage financial transactions between the United States and China, alongside wealth management, treasury services, foreign exchange, and hedging tools for interest rates and commodities. It also offers online and mobile banking for everyday account access.
The bank organizes its work into three segments: Consumer and Business Banking, Commercial Banking, and other activities. It serves a mix of everyday consumers and commercial clients, with a branch and office network that reaches across the United States and into China, including locations in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shantou, Shenzhen, and representative offices in several other Chinese cities.
East West Bancorp was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Pasadena, California. Its shares are listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker EWBC.
- Listed
- NASDAQ
- Sector
- Finance
- Industry
- Regional banks
- Website
- eastwestbank.com
East West Bancorp GekkoIndex: the smart money zone
East West Bancorp’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 61, in the Accumulation zone, down 3.3 points over five sessions.
61Accumulation
Down 3.3 points over five sessions.
Reading for Sep 28, 2026
What followed past readings in each zone
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buying | 23 | +1.8% | +4.2% | ||
| Accumulation (current zone) | 167 | +0.5% | +4.6% | ||
| Neutral | 425 | +0.5% | +1.4% | ||
| Distribution | 52 | +0.6% | +0.7% | ||
| Selling | 5 | Too few readings yet | |||
Average EWBC share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Accumulation readings averaged +2.3% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
Accumulation zone: Institutional interest building. About the five zones →
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Is East West Bancorp stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value
East West Bancorp trades 8.2% below Gekko Fair Value of $138.00, so the shares are undervalued on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what East West Bancorp shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$138.00
Gekko Fair Value, Sep 29, 2026
8.2% Undervalued
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East West Bancorp insider and Congress trading
No open-market insider purchases were filed for East West Bancorp, and no Congress trades were disclosed, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
Congress trades last 90 days
No trades in EWBC were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
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Buybacks
East West Bancorp has been buying back its own shares.
- Bought back, quarter ended Jun 30, 2026
- $1K
- As a share of market cap
- 0.00%
- Trailing four quarters
- $150.3M
From company filings.
Hedge funds and billionaires quarter ended Mar 31
1of the funds Gekko tracks holds EWBC.
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East West Bancorp earnings: next date and track record
East West Bancorp reports on Oct 20, 2026, after the close (21 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 7 of its last 8 reports.
Next earnings report
Oct 20, 2026
Expected after the close, 21 days away
- EPS estimate
- $2.70
- Revenue estimate
- $811.0M
7 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±4%average move across the report
5 of 8reports followed by a gain
Share-price move across each report
Last earnings call, Jul 21, 2026 AI summary
- What they said
- East West Bancorp reported record total revenue, net interest income ($685M), and non-interest income in Q2 2026. Deposits grew 8% YoY with non-interest-bearing deposits up 19% YoY; DDA mix reached 26% of total deposits. Loans grew 7% YoY, led by residential mortgage and C&I (up 11% YoY). Fee income rose 19% YoY to $96M. Credit quality remained stable with TCE ratio exceeding 10% generating 17% return.
- Guidance
- Full year loan growth guidance raised to 6%-8%. Full year NII growth guidance increased to 7%-9%, up from prior 6%-8% range, driven by robust NII performance and favorable deposit remix trends.
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 2026 | $2.63 est $2.61 | $791.1M est $784.5M | −1.7% |
| Apr 21, 2026 | $2.57 est $2.47 | $773.7M est $751.8M | +2.5% |
| Jan 22, 2026 | $2.52 est $2.49 | $759.1M est $747.0M | −3.6% |
| Oct 21, 2025 | $2.62 est $2.36 | $802.8M est $724.8M | +4.1% |
| Jul 22, 2025 | $2.28 est $2.25 | $703.3M est $702.9M | −1.9% |
| Apr 22, 2025 | $2.09 est $2.05 | $683.3M est $672.0M | +10.7% |
| Jan 23, 2025 | $2.08 est $2.12 | — | +0.2% |
| Oct 22, 2024 | $2.09 est $2.05 | $645.3M est $642.2M | +7.4% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
East West Bancorp stock forecast and analyst price targets
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for East West Bancorp is $149.62, +18.1% from the last close, from 13 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.
$149.62consensus 12-month target, +18.1% from the last close
Now $126.72Avg $149.62
Low $127High $164
Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 13 firms.
Latest analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Target | vs price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28 | Morgan Stanley | $164 | +29.4% |
| Sep 22 | Citi | $152 | +19.9% |
| Sep 18 | TD Cowen | $150 | +18.4% |
| Sep 15 | Barclays | $155 | +22.3% |
| Sep 8 | Morgan Stanley | $160 | +26.3% |
+4.6%average 20-day move after past Accumulation readings
+3.3%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±1.9%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
East West Bancorp seasonality: the next 20 trading days
Over the next 20 trading days from Sep 29, East West Bancorp averaged +3.3% across the last 5 years, rising in 2 of them.
Next 20 trading days, by year
Average move and hit rate
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | +1.5% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | +1.3% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | +1.2% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | +3.3% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | +9.1% | 4 of 5 |
For scale, EWBC’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 6%.
East West Bancorp market cap and key statistics
East West Bancorp’s market cap is $17.36B, with a P/E ratio of 12.2 and revenue of $2.89B over the last twelve months.
Valuation
- Market cap
- $17.36B
- P/E ratio
- 12.2
- Forward P/E
- 12.7
- EPS, TTM
- $10.41
- Gekko Fair Value
- $138.00
Trading
- Volume
- 856,179
- Avg volume, 20 days
- 830,042
- 52-week high
- $137.47
- 52-week low
- $92.67
- Shares outstanding
- 137.0M
Financials
- Revenue, TTM
- $2.89B
- Profit margin
- 50.1%
- Return on equity
- 16.6%
- Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
- +17.4%
Risk and income
- Beta
- 0.93
- Typical daily move
- ±1.9%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±6%
- Dividend yield
- 2.23%
East West Bancorp stock news this week
Coverage of East West Bancorp this week reads positive: 4 positive, 1 neutral and 1 negative headlines.
- Can EWBC Balance Growth While Raising Capital Distributions?Zacks Investment Research, Sep 28
- Dividend Hike Could Be A Game Changer For East West Bancorp (EWBC)Simply Wall Street, Sep 26
- EWBC Gains 17.7% in 6 Months: How Should You Play the Stock Now?TradingView, Sep 25
- 2 Reasons to Watch EWBC and 1 to Stay CautiousTradingView, Sep 25
- East West Bancorp (EWBC) Beat On Revenue, Is It Still 17% Undervalued?Simply Wall Street, Sep 24
- Unpacking Q2 Earnings: East West Bank (NASDAQ:EWBC) In The Context Of Other Regional Banks StocksFinancialContent, Sep 22
East West Bancorp peers
East West Bancorp’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.
| Stock | GekkoIndex zone | vs Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| CMCanadian Imperial Bank of Commerce | Accumulation | 4.8% below |
| USBU.S. Bancorp | Accumulation | 10.6% below |
| NUNu | Buying | 24.1% below |
| TFCTruist Financial | Buying | 10.3% below |
| FITBFifth Third Bancorp | Accumulation | 11.5% below |
| MTBM&T Bank | Accumulation | 11.2% below |
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East West Bancorp stock FAQ
What is East West Bancorp’s market cap?
East West Bancorp’s market cap is $17.36B at the Sep 28, 2026 close of $126.72, with 137.0M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 12.2.
What is the East West Bancorp stock forecast?
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for East West Bancorp is $149.62, +18.1% from the last close. Of the 13 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 10 rate it a buy, 3 a hold and 0 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
Is East West Bancorp stock overvalued or undervalued?
On Gekko’s estimate East West Bancorp is undervalued: the Sep 28, 2026 close of $126.72 is 8.2% below Gekko Fair Value of $138.00. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
When does East West Bancorp report earnings next?
East West Bancorp is expected to report on Oct 20, 2026, after the market closes (21 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $2.70 per share on revenue of $811.0M. East West Bancorp beat the earnings estimate in 7 of its last 8 reports, moving 4% on average across the report.
What is East West Bancorp’s 52-week high and low?
East West Bancorp’s 52-week high is $137.47 and its 52-week low is $92.67; it closed at $126.72 on Sep 28, 2026, +17.4% over the past year.
Is East West Bancorp stock a buy right now?
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 2 of the 5 items with data read as supportive (gekkoindex and fair value), 2 as mixed (trend and seasonality) and 1 as a headwind (earnings risk). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
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