Cathay General Bancorp (NASDAQ: CATY) flaunted slowness of -6.35% at $37.60, as the Stock market unbolted on Thursday, before settling in for the price of $40.15 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, CATY posted a 52-week range of $33.88-$55.29.
Here's Your FREE Report on the #1 Small-Cap Uranium Stock of '24.
Small-cap Uranium stocks are booming in 2024! The company we're about to show you is the ONLY small-cap stock in the space that benefits from ALL aspects of the global Uranium industry with none of the risks of running a mine. Smart investors will not be hesitating on this one!
Get the FREE Report with all the details here.
Sponsored
In the past 5-years timespan, the Financial sector firm’s annual sales growth was 12.89%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 2.60%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 6.96%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $70.86 million, simultaneously with a float of $66.52 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $2.64 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $44.31, while the 200-day Moving Average is $44.91.
Cathay General Bancorp (CATY) Ownership Facts and Figures
Sometimes it is also beneficial to study the sentiment of large-scale investors towards the stock of the Cathay General Bancorp industry. Cathay General Bancorp’s current insider ownership accounts for 5.35%, in contrast to 76.03% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Mar 07 ’25, this organization’s Vice Chairman sold 2,500 shares at the rate of 45.00, making the entire transaction reach 112,500 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 188,792. Preceding that transaction, on Dec 10 ’24, Company’s Vice Chairman sold 2,500 for 51.52, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 128,788. This particular insider is now the holder of 191,292 in total.
Cathay General Bancorp (CATY) Earnings and Revenue Records
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.05 per share during the current fiscal year.
Cathay General Bancorp’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 6.96% and is forecasted to reach 4.73 in the upcoming year.
Cathay General Bancorp (NASDAQ: CATY) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Cathay General Bancorp (CATY). The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 1.97. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $9.51, and its Beta score is 0.91. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 1.89. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 8.12.
In the same vein, CATY’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 3.96, a figure that is expected to reach 0.95 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 4.73 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Cathay General Bancorp (CATY)
Now, what If we examine the latest scores posted by [Cathay General Bancorp, CATY]. During the last 5-days, its volume was better the volume of 0.42 million it reported in year-ago period. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 31.71% While, its Average True Range was 2.28.
Raw Stochastic average of Cathay General Bancorp (CATY) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 8.03%, which indicates a major fall in contrast to 17.51% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 58.65% that was higher than 31.76% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
