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) Price to free cash flow

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As of 5 November 2026, Cathay General Bancorp (CATY) trades at a price to free cash flow of 8.0×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 3.5× (March 2020) to 19.4× (November 2017); the current reading is higher than 29% of that period. That is below the Banks Regional industry median of 10.6× and below the Financial sector median of 9.7×.

Price to free cash flow, daily

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Annual newest first

Period Price to free cash flow Change
FY2025 9.2× (12.66%)
FY2024 10.5× 24.02%
FY2023 8.5× 32.44%
FY2022 6.4× (36.95%)
FY2021 10.2× 24.82%
FY2020 8.2× 14.61%
FY2019 7.1× (13.73%)
FY2018 8.2× (39.45%)
FY2017 13.6× 4.11%
FY2016 13.1× (9.93%)

Quarterly newest first

Period Price to free cash flow Change
Sep 2026 7.4× (4.75%)
Jun 2026 7.8× (15.46%)
Mar 2026 9.2× (0.09%)
Dec 2025 9.2× 10.17%
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 3.5× High 19.4×
Ten-year median 9.7×
Current reading's percentile 29

Price to free cash flow against peers

What Price to free cash flow is

Price to Free Cash Flow Ratio shows how much investors pay for each dollar of cash a company generates after its capital spending.

Stock Price ÷ ((Operating Cash Flow (TTM) + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) (TTM) + Intangible Assets Change (Net) (TTM)) ÷ (Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)))

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