HANCOCK WHITNEY CORPORATION
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $77.11, HANCOCK WHITNEY CORPORATION (HWC) is priced for 14.0% 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 24, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
• A Gulf South deposit franchise is the whole asset here: Hancock Whitney earned a 14.9% return on tangible common equity in the June quarter on a 3.56% net interest margin and a 55.3% efficiency ratio, which is upper-tier work for a bank this size [Source: Hancock Whitney Q2 2026 earnings release, 21 July 2026]. • The stretch is in the price rather than the bank: buyers are paying about 1.4 times book for an institution that has recently been earning a return on equity near 10.9%, so the premi
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369 institutional managers reported holding HWC in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 93% of the company; the top 10 hold 56%. 60 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, FMR (Fidelity), among others. On the short side, 6.9M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 8% of shares outstanding (7.1 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.
HWC has cut its share count 5.9% over the past five years, spending $459.86M on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (17 and counting), raised 3 years straight; the current rate is $1.80 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $379.06M in dividends and $379.17M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at HWC over the trailing three years: 2025: 1 buy totaling $1k. 23 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.
HWC's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-08-05 | +7.7% | -1.3% |
| 2022-11-04 | +4.9% | -11.7% |
| 2023-02-28 | +2.7% | -29.3% |
| 2023-05-06 | +0.4% | +13.4% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
HWC's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-21 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-07-20 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-05-19 (items 1.01, 9.01); 2026-05-15 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-04-30 (items 5.07).
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 24, 2026
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