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Cathay General Bancorp operates as the holding company for Cathay Bank, which offers various commercial banking products and services for individuals, professionals, and small to medium-sized businesses primarily in California. Its deposit products include passbook accounts, checking accounts, money market deposit accounts, certificates of deposit, individual retirement accounts, college certificates of deposit, and public funds deposits. The company's loan portfolio comprises commercial mortgage loans, commercial loans, small business administration loans, residential mortgage loans, real estate construction loans, and home equity lines of credit. It also offers installment loans to individuals for automobile, household, and other consumer expenditures. In addition, the company provides letters of credit, wire transfers, forward currency spot and forward contracts, traveler's checks, safe deposit, night deposit, social security payment deposit, collection, bank-by-mail, drive-up and walk-up windows, automatic teller machines, Internet banking, and other customary bank services. As of December 31, 2008, Cathay General Bancorp had 21 branches in southern California, 10 branches in northern California, 9 branches in New York, 1 branch in Massachusetts, 2 branches in Texas, 3 branches in Washington, 3 branches in Illinois, 1 branch in New Jersey, and 1 branch in Hong Kong, as well as 2 representative offices in Shanghai and Taipei. The company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

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Key Statistics

Closing Price	17.39
Volume	331541
Volume Avg	374448
52 Week High	18.16
52 Week Low	10.01
PE	16.53
PE (group average)	27
EPS Year	1.06
EPS change Q/Q	27.78%
EPS change Q/Q Yr ago	-1000%
EPS change Q/Q next Q est	-25.81%
EPS change Y/Y	1000%
REV change Q/Q	-6.02%
REV change Q/Q Yr ago	-3.73%
EPS next Q est	0.31
EPS next Y est	1.52
Divident Annual	0.04
Dividend Yield	0.23%