East West Stock To Go Ex-dividend Tomorrow (EWBC)
NEW YORK (
) -- The ex-dividend date for
(Nasdaq:
) is tomorrow, February 8, 2012. Owners of shares as of market close today will be eligible for a dividend of 10 cents per share. At a price of $22.15 as of 9:30 a.m. ET, the dividend yield is 1.8%.
The average volume for East West has been 1.3 million shares per day over the past 30 days. East West has a market cap of $3.33 billion and is part of the
sector and
industry. Shares are up 12.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday.
East West Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for East West Bank, which provides a range of personal and commercial banking services to small and medium-sized businesses, business executives, professionals, and other individuals in California. The company has a P/E ratio of 13.4, below the average banking industry P/E ratio of 13.9 and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.
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TheStreet Ratings rates East West as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its impressive record of earnings per share growth, expanding profit margins and increase in stock price during the past year. However, as a counter to these strengths, we find that the growth in the company's net income has been quite unimpressive. You can view the full
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