East West Bancorp Has An Efficient Structure

Tero Vesalainen Introduction My September article made an investment case for East West Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:EWBC) back when the stock was $53.43 per share. The stock is up significantly since then and the business hasn’t changed much, so I’m not as bullish. However, East West still has an interesting dividend yield of about 3%, which is around double the S&P 500 (SP500) dividend yield of almost 1.5%. My thesis is that East West has an effective structure which enables their cost structure to be low. T ...