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East West Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for East West Bank, which provides a range of personal and commercial banking services to small and medium-sized businesses, business executives, professionals, and other individuals in California. The company offers various deposit products, including personal and business checking and savings accounts, time deposits and individual retirement accounts, travelers checks, safe deposit boxes, and MasterCard and Visa merchant deposit services. It also provides residential and commercial real estate, construction, commercial, trade finance, accounts receivable, small business administration, inventory, and working capital loans. In addition, the company offers business and consumer insurance services to the southern California market, as well as provides short-term trade finance facilities primarily to the United States importers and manufacturers doing business in the Asia Pacific region. As of December 31, 2008, it operated 71 branch locations in California, as well as 1 full-service branch in Hong Kong and 2 representative offices in Beijing and Shanghai, China. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Pasadena, California.

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Key Statistics

Closing Price	23.67
Volume	895145
Volume Avg	(mio) 1.11
52 Week High	23.61
52 Week Low	13.94
PE	14.77
PE (group average)	27
EPS Year	1.60
EPS change Q/Q	68.18%
EPS change Q/Q Yr ago	117.65%
EPS change Q/Q next Q est	-15.91%
EPS change Y/Y	1000%
REV change Q/Q	-3.46%
REV change Q/Q Yr ago	-14.47%
EPS next Q est	0.44
EPS next Y est	1.97
Divident Annual	0.25
Dividend Yield	1.06%