Cathay General Bancorp
At today's price, Cathay General Bancorp (CATY) is priced for 12.9% return on equity. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Cathay General is a community bank built around Chinese-American customer relationships, and its loan book leans heavily on commercial real estate: CRE totaled $7.61 billion at the end of 2025, about 38% of total loans held for investment, per the FY2025 10-K. • The reassuring signal is the reserve build against improving credit: the allowance for loan losses rose to $208.8 million in the first quarter even as non-performing assets fell to 0.53% of total assets [Source: Q1 2026 earnings releas
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276 institutional managers reported holding CATY in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 71% of the company; the top 10 hold 49%. 47 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, Dimensional Fund Advisors, among others. On the short side, 2.2M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 3% of shares outstanding (5.4 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.
CATY has cut its share count 15.3% over the past five years, spending $539.16M on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (16 and counting); the current rate is $1.36 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $266.58M in dividends and $277.58M 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 CATY 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.
CATY's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-09 | +5.0% | -5.3% |
| 2023-11-09 | -1.1% | +22.9% |
| 2024-03-01 | -1.2% | -6.0% |
| 2024-05-09 | -3.1% | +4.8% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
CATY's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-19 (items 5.07); 2026-04-23 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-04-22 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-02-05 (items 5.02); 2026-01-23 (items 5.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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