Some Investing Thoughts On Hope Bancorp Inc (NASDAQ: HOPE)

Hope Bancorp Inc (HOPE) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $11.89, with 0.45 million shares of worth about $5.37 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 8.88% during that period and on January 08, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -0.59%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 120.74M shares, out of which, 114.64M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of -3.25% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -11.60%. Year-to-date (YTD), HOPE shares are showing a performance of -3.25% which decreased to -0.25% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $9.80 but also hit the highest price of $14.53 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Hope Bancorp Inc shares is 730.79K. The stock is currently trading -5.07% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -8.67% for SMA50 and it goes to -0.20% lower than SMA200.

Hope Bancorp Inc (NASDAQ: HOPE) currently have 120.74M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 89.81% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $1.44B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.15. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 14.13, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.84 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.77 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.12. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for HOPE, volatility over the week remained 2.88% while standing at 2.77% over the month.

Analysts are in expectations that Hope Bancorp Inc (HOPE) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 0.19 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 0.26 and it is 1.2 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 0.15 which is 0.23 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of 0.32 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -30.63% while it is estimated to increase by 50.65% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 8.00% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -5.03% made by the stock over the past 5-years.

Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by DA Davidson on April 30, 2024 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $12.50 to it. Coverage by DA Davidson stated Hope Bancorp Inc (HOPE) stock as a Neutral in their note to investors on May 18, 2022, suggesting a price target of $16 for the stock. Stock get a Market perform rating from FIG Partners on September 15, 2017.

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