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Cathay General Bancorp CATY

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$315.1M
▲ 10.2% YoY
$363.7M
▲ 11.7% YoY

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

In brief

What this company does

As a commercial bank, the Bank offers products and services to businesses, such as checking and deposit, lines of credit, commercial and commercial real estate loans, and other merchant services. As of December 31, 2025, Cathay Bank employed approximately 1,268 regular full-time equivalent employees, of whom 1,229 were located in the United States and 39 were located in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The company's principal place of business is located at 777 North Broadway, Los Angeles, California, and its common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol CATY.

Written from the business description in CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 2 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

·
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Compound annual growth
−4.4%
+6.6%
+6.9%
+24.6%
−2.0%
+9.6%
+8.7%
+0.0%
+1.9%
+9.3%
+4.2%
+17.5%
+10.6%
+20.8%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

·
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 10.9%
5%10%-2%-4%
200920172025
Three returns, three denominators.
Return on capital employedNot available: we don't have total assets or current liabilities for this period.
Gross margin·
Operating margin·
Net margin·
EBITDAUSD 396.8M

Each USD of equity produced 11 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 274.1M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 363.7
200M400M
200920172025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 93.8 · Net buybacks 180.3
100M200MDividendsNet buybacks
200920112013201520172019202120232025
Dividends paidUSD 93.8M
Net buybacksUSD 180.3M
Share of profit87.0%
Consecutive raises·

USD 93.8M in dividends and USD 180.3M in buybacks — 87% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 24.2B
EquityUSD 2.9B
Gross debtUSD 119.1M
DepositsUSD 20.9B

Equity funds 12% of total assets.

The 17-year record

17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
CATY, 17-year financial record
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
Operating income $B0.40.30.40.50.40.30.30.30.30.2◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
EBITDA $B0.40.30.40.50.40.30.40.30.30.2◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
Income tax $B0.10.00.00.10.10.00.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.1−0.0−0.1
Net income $B0.30.30.40.40.30.20.30.30.20.20.20.10.10.10.10.0−0.1
Free cash flow $B0.40.30.40.50.30.30.40.30.20.20.20.10.10.20.20.20.1
EPS, diluted $4.543.954.864.833.802.873.483.332.172.191.981.721.431.281.06−0.06−1.59
Dividend / sh $1.361.361.361.361.271.241.241.030.870.750.560.29◌◌0.040.040.20
Payout %303428283343363140342817101416139−33
ROE %10.910.213.614.712.39.712.613.39.39.89.69.08.07.56.80.8−5.1
Shares out B0.070.070.070.070.080.080.080.080.080.080.080.080.080.080.080.08◌

Slide the table for earlier years. "—" not applicable · "◌" not available in our data.

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 50 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of the 17 fiscal years we could check. Three checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2010. Three checks were skipped: cost of revenue is not tagged before 2010. Two checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2009.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityState Commercial Banks
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2009

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