East West Bancorp's Dividends per Share for the
three
months ended in Dec. 2023 was $0.48.
During the past 12 months, East West Bancorp's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 20.00% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 20.40% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 16.80% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 11.00% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of East West Bancorp was 146.60% per year. The lowest was -53.60% per year. And the median was 15.40% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
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East West Bancorp Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for East West Bancorp's Dividend Yield % can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
For the Banks - Regional subindustry, East West Bancorp's Dividend Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and Dividend Yield % data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
East West Bancorp Dividend Yield % Distribution
For the Banks industry and Financial Services sector, East West Bancorp's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where East West Bancorp's Dividend Yield % falls into.
East West Bancorp Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
East West Bancorp Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
USD 0.550
2024-02-01
2024-02-02
2024-02-15
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.480
2023-10-31
2023-11-01
2023-11-15
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.480
2023-07-31
2023-08-01
2023-08-15
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.480
2023-04-28
2023-05-01
2023-05-15
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
* GuruFocus has an internal rule that if the most recent dividend payment frequency is at least 4 times a year, then the full year will be calculated according to the frequency of payment or the one-year time frame, whichever is stricter.
* GuruFocus converts dividend currency to local traded share price currency in order to calculate dividend yield. Please refer to the last column "Forex Rate" in the above table.
East West Bancorp's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield
=
Most Recent Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
1.99
/
75.49
=
2.64 %
Current Share Price is $75.49.
East West Bancorp's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is $1.99.
East West Bancorp's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Forward Annual Dividend Yield
=
Forward Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
2.2
/
75.49
=
2.91 %
Current Share Price is $75.49.
East West Bancorp's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as $0.55 * 4 = $2.2.
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
East West Bancorp (NAS:EWBC) Dividend Yield % Explanation
Over the long term, the return from dividends has been a significant contributor to the total returns produced by equity securities. Studies by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton of Princeton University (2002) found that a market-oriented portfolio, which included reinvested dividends, would have generated nearly 85 times the wealth generated by the same portfolio relying solely on capital gains.
Dividends may also qualify a lower tax rate for investors.
In dividends investing, Payout Ratio and Dividend Growth Rate are the two most important variables for consideration. A lower payout ratio may indicate that the company has more room to increase its dividends.
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East West Bancorp (East West Bancorp) Business Description
East West Bancorp Inc is the holding company for East West Bank, a full-service commercial bank with cross-border operations concentrated in the United States and China. East-West Bank is one of a few U.S. based banks with a full banking license in China. The bank's cost strategy has increasingly focused on expanding its deposit base away from time deposits to commercial deposits. The bank has also taken part in entertainment partnerships between participants in China and Hollywood. Most of these efforts include financing the production and distribution of film and television projects. The bank leverages its cultural and regulatory knowledge in the U.S. and China to assist its customers in entering new markets. Most of its earning assets are in loans held for investment.
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