BANK OF HAWAII CORPORATION
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $79.95, BANK OF HAWAII CORPORATION (BOH) is priced for 14.5% return on equity. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating; individual model outputs and user-controlled scenarios are analytical inputs, not Boothcheck targets. The narrative was composed July 25, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
• This is a single-economy bank by design, and the 10-K states the geography without hedging: ⟦"Our commercial and consumer lending activities are concentrated primarily in Hawai‘i and the West Pacific."⟧ • The specific risk is the price rather than the credit: at about 1.8 times book the shares carry the highest price-to-book in their peer group, and that premium is paying for a return on equity beyond the 13.2% tier that only elite banks have held over four decades, against a bank recently ear
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322 institutional managers reported holding BOH in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 82% of the company; the top 10 hold 49%. 47 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, State Street, among others. On the short side, 3.2M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 8% of shares outstanding (10.4 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
BOH has cut its share count 0.8% over the past five years, spending $122.72M on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (17 and counting); the current rate is $2.80 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $309.52M in dividends and $25.77M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at BOH over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 21 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
BOH's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-26 | +2.1% | -17.5% |
| 2023-10-26 | +5.3% | +51.5% |
| 2024-03-01 | +2.8% | -2.1% |
| 2024-04-24 | -0.3% | -3.6% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
BOH's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-27 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-04-28 (items 5.07); 2026-04-20 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-02-24 (items 5.02, 9.01); 2026-02-03 (items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: July 25, 2026
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