Ranked #52 of 152 · scores higher than 66% of peers
Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score
16 peers with a profitability score of 70–79, including EWBC · Click a bar to see the companies
Why profitability scores 73?
Weighted metrics compared with all Banks & Insurance companies.
Mainly thanks to its return on equity and return on assets, which are stronger than most Banks & Insurance peers.
▲a higher return on assets: stronger than 71% of peers. Return on assets: 1.7% vs peer median 1.2%
▲a higher return on shareholders' equity: stronger than 80% of peers. Return on equity: 15.6% vs peer median 10.7%
Metric by metric
Position: dot = EWBC, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.
Metric
EWBC
Peer median
Better than
Position among peers
Weight
Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 124 reported
19.0%
10.7%
78%
Context only
Operating marginHigher is better · 18 reported
Not reported
17.2%
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Context only
Return on assetsHigher is better · 152 reported
1.7%
1.3%
66%
50%
Return on equityHigher is better · 150 reported
16.6%
12.5%
72%
50%
Gross marginHigher is better · 157 reported
0.0%
0.0%
0%
Context only
Metrics with no weight are context only: for banks, brokers and insurers, free cash flow, EBITDA, gross margin and current ratio mostly reflect trading and funding flows, not the health of the business.
A metric that is not reported is left out of the score; the other weights are rescaled.
Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score
