Cathay General Bancorp

CATY Financial Banks Regional

Cathay General Bancorp’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $1.4 billion, roughly unchanged from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+9.21%
EPS
+26.6%
Free cash flow
+272.5%
Total debt
−18.9%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

64.20 1.78 −2.70%
Market cap
$4.2B
P/E
11.8×
Fwd P/E
11.5×
Dividend yield
2.31%
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
n/a
Beneish M
n/a
Dividend safety
n/a

Cathay General Bancorp (CATY) Free cash flow margin

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Cathay General Bancorp's free cash flow margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 0.00%, down 26.3 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (26.3%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 23.4% (fiscal 2024) to 52.6% (fiscal 2019); the current reading is higher than 18% of that period. That is below the Banks Regional industry median of 18.0% and below the Financial sector median of 11.4%.

Free cash flow margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Free cash flow margin Change (points)
FY2025 26.3% 2.85
FY2024 23.4% (5.69)
FY2023 29.1% (22.03)
FY2022 51.1% 5.29
FY2021 45.8% 3.58
FY2020 42.3% (10.30)
FY2019 52.6% 6.72
FY2018 45.8% 4.81
FY2017 41.0% (2.33)
FY2016 43.4% 7.63

Against its own ten years

Low 23.4% High 52.6%
Ten-year median 42.3%
Current reading's percentile 18

Free cash flow margin against peers

What Free cash flow margin is

Free Cash Flow Margin tells an investor how much of each sale turns into cash the company keeps after paying for investment in its assets.

(Operating Cash Flow + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) + Intangible Assets Change (Net)) ÷ Revenue

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