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East West Bancorp

The past year was a relatively good year for East West Bancorp investors

The period between December 2015 and December 2016 was a good period for the investors. The stock gained almost 21 percent. The period between August 2011 and August 2016 was a profitable period for the investors. The stock rose on average 175 percent. East West Bancorp's net results between 2011 and 2015 were quite unstable and moved between 245,23 million dollars and 384,68 million dollars.

East West Bancorp's core business is the banking sector. The global banks lost around 24 percent over the period 2006-2016. Measured since 2011 the sector is 6 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-December 2016) there is a minus of 24 percent.

The American company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. Over the past 5 years the stock delivered an average dividend return of 2,68 percent.

East West Bancorp' balance mostly financed with equity

At the end of 2015 the bank's balance sheet equaled 32,35 billion dollars. 29,23 billion dollars (90,35 percent of the total balance sheet) was financed by debt. As per the end of 2015 East West Bancorp's price/earnings-ratio equaled 14. So investors paid for 1 stock 14 times the earnings per share of 2015. We could say that based on it's price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the American stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the market capitalization (the number of shares outstanding multiplied by the stock price) of the bank equaled around 5,85 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 the American company had around 143,82 million stocks listed on the stock exchange(s).

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