UBS Sticks to Its Hold Rating for East West Bancorp (EWBC)

In a report released today, Nicholas Holowko from UBS maintained a Hold rating on East West Bancorp, with a price target of $125.00.

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According to TipRanks, Holowko is a 3-star analyst with an average return of 10.5% and a 54.55% success rate. Holowko covers the Financial sector, focusing on stocks such as Columbia Banking System, First Citizens BancShares, and First Interstate Bancsystem.

In addition to UBS, East West Bancorp also received a Hold from Stephens’s Andrew Terrell in a report issued on January 26. However, on the same day, D.A. Davidson maintained a Buy rating on East West Bancorp (NASDAQ: EWBC).

Based on East West Bancorp’s latest earnings release for the quarter ending September 30, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $1.25 billion and a net profit of $368.39 million. In comparison, last year the company earned a revenue of $1.15 billion and had a net profit of $299.17 million

Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 47 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of EWBC in relation to earlier this year. Most recently, in December 2025, Irene Oh, the CRO of EWBC sold 7,453.00 shares for a total of $848,896.70.