East West Bancorp Inc. Common Stock (EWBC) fair value
Financial Services · Banks - Regional · NASDAQ · United States
$131.19-1.10%
Market cap $18.2BNext earnings 2026-10-20Updated Oct 23, 2026
Our verdict
Trades 20% above our fair value
Price
$131.19
Model fair valueConfidence: good
$109
Model range
$71.52 to $130
Fair value $109
Price $131
4 models fit East West Bancorp Inc. Common Stock and they partly agree: 2 of 4 land within 15% of the average. The price is above every model.
Two or more of our models back this value.
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Valued as a bank: Residual income, P/E comparison, Dividend discount, and Graham number.
ACCE opinionEast West Bancorp Inc. Common Stock (EWBC)
Fair value (4 models)
$109
ACCE price target
$139
Rating
Overvalued
Horizon
12 months
Fair value published on 21 Oct 2026, 11:06 CEST; previously $106 since 12 Oct 2026, 00:00 CEST.
ACCE price target published on 21 Oct 2026, 01:52 CEST; previously $132 since 26 Sept 2026, 00:00 CEST.
Rating published on 20 Oct 2026, 14:06 CEST.
Price used: $131 at the close on 23 Oct 2026, 22:00 CEST.
Models: P/E comparison, Graham number, Dividend discount, and Residual income.
Fair value: the average of the applicable valuation models (discounted cash flow, multiples, residual income, dividend discount, shareholder yield), each run on the latest financial statements and the market price shown. Opinion columns (fair value, target, rating) are shown apart from the data. Full methodology: acceinvestments.com/data/how-we-value-stocks
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Data
Price vs fair value
20.1% above
-16.7% to fair value
ACCE score
68
out of 100
Analysts
81% buy
16 covering
P/E
12.6x
forward 12.7x
1-year return
+28.7%
Dividend yield
0.46%
East West Bancorp Inc. Common Stock in four questions
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Overview
ACCE thesis
East West Bancorp is a California-based regional bank whose core business is commercial and consumer lending and deposit-taking, with a franchise built around Chinese-American and other Asian-American households and businesses in California, plus a branch network in Asia through East West Bank's China and Hong Kong operations. Its edge is a deep, relationship-driven deposit base in the Greater China corridor, which has historically given it cheap funding and a lending book with strong credit quality. The near-term story is margin and earnings recovery as deposit costs stabilize and loan growth holds in the mid-single digits, with revenue growing 3.8% against a 16.6% return on equity. At a trailing P/E of 12.5 and a forward P/E of 11.2, the market is pricing in little improvement, so the question for a PM is whether the deposit franchise and capital returns justify a closer look at the credit and rate-sensitivity risks that come with a concentrated loan book.
⚠ Investor warnings · 3 flagsAI-assisted·How I use AI
moderate
Insider selling without buys
Insiders sold $4.42M across the last 10 disclosed transactions and bought nothing. Insider ownership is only 0.9%, so the signal is small but one-directional.
moderate
Valuation above model fair value
The stock trades 20.1% above the model fair value of $109.24, while sitting 5.6% below the ACCE price target of $139.00. The two readings point in different directions.
moderate
Score drifting lower
The ACCE score slipped from 78 to 77 over 90 days, with the Value sub-score at 64, the weakest of the four components. Revenue growth of 3.8% YoY and earnings growth of 4.2% YoY are modest.
AI research notes
AI-assisted·How I use AIWritten Oct 23, 2026 · figures from 2026-09-30 · prices to Oct 23, 2026
Why it could do well
Shares trade at 11.3x forward earnings, below the sector median of 11.8x, which leaves room for a re-rating if earnings hold.
Free cash flow of $1.5B over the last twelve months implies an 8.5% yield, and the bank pays a 2.4% dividend on top.
Why it could disappoint
The stock trades 20.1% above the model fair value of $109.24, and all four valuation models in the consensus sit at or below it.
Revenue grew just 3.8% over the past year, far below the 20.6% average annual pace over five years, so momentum has clearly slowed.
Return on invested capital of 9.0% is modest for a bank, and return on equity of 16.6% gives little cushion if credit losses rise in commercial real estate.
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Where EWBC's valuation models land
Price
$131.19
Model fair value
$109
Model range
$71.52 to $130
Fair value $109
Price $131
The price is above the whole model range.
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