HOPE BANCORP, INC.
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $13.92, HOPE BANCORP, INC. (HOPE) is priced for 8.6% 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 June 27, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Hope Bancorp is a commercial bank serving the Korean-American and broader multi-ethnic community, and the defining recent move is its earnings recovery: first-quarter 2026 net income rose 40% year over year to $29.5 million, aided by the Territorial Bancorp acquisition. [Source: Q1 2026 earnings release] • The biggest specific risk is commercial real estate concentration; the bank's 10-K warns that regulators may require it to ⟦maintain higher levels of capital than we would otherwise be expec
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244 institutional managers reported holding HOPE in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 92% of the company; the top 10 hold 62%. 29 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, Wellington Management, among others. On the short side, 4.4M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 3% of shares outstanding (5.3 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.
HOPE's share count grew 3.6% over the past five years even with $71.37M spent on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has for 14 years running; the current rate is $0.56 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $189.79M in dividends and $6.71M 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 HOPE over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 22 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.
HOPE's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-09 | +4.0% | -12.8% |
| 2023-11-09 | -4.5% | +27.3% |
| 2024-02-29 | -7.5% | -3.3% |
| 2024-05-08 | -8.6% | +2.2% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
HOPE's latest 8-K filings: 2026-08-25 (items 5.02, 9.01); 2026-07-27 (items 2.02, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01); 2026-05-22 (items 5.07); 2026-04-28 (items 2.02, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01); 2026-04-01 (items 5.02).
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: June 27, 2026
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