Company Analysis

Hanmi Financial Corporation (HAFC)

Nasdaq: HAFC · National Commercial Banks · Los Angeles, CA · filing with the SEC since 2000
Grade4.1
◀ Past 3.0● Present 4.6▶ Future 5.0

The grade of Hanmi Financial Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.1/10
◀ Past3.040% of the headline
● Present4.635% of the headline
▶ Future5.025% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

3.0/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
1.3/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

4 warning events since 2017; the latest 2019-08-22.

weight 45% of this tense · 13th percentile among 83 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Hanmi Financial Corporation's filings since 2017 show 4 warning events of 3 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, the latest 2019-08-22); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, 2 times, the latest 2019-07-02); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2019-08-12) (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
3.9/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+9.7% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 22% of this tense · 39th percentile among 79 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Hanmi Financial Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $178 million in fiscal 2016 to $411 million in fiscal 2025, up 9.7% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 12% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span9.7%bottom 27% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 41% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 42% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak12.2%bottom 30% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
4.9/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 0.4% a year. 31% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 3 sales, 1 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 49th percentile among 81 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Hanmi Financial Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 0.4% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 31% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 3 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $5 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 37% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 35% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

4.6/1035% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
4.9/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 10%: 10¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 90%: owes 90¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 49th percentile among 83 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Hanmi Financial Corporation earned about 10 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 90 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.2% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 40% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 48% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 41% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
3.1/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 31% of 79 in its family; net margin 18.5%.

weight 33% of this tense · 31st percentile among 79 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Hanmi Financial Corporation's standing among 79 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $411 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 37% by size; a net margin of 18.5% ranks in the bottom 26%; revenue growth of 14.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 30% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$411Mbottom 37% of its family
  • net margin18.5%bottom 26% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth14.5%bottom 30% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
6.2/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 38% of 74 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2019.

weight 22% of this tense · 62nd percentile among 74 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Hanmi Financial Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Lee, Bonita (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2019-07-12, 7.3 years (top 49% of its family); the 15 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 9.5 years (top 21%); 5 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 15 people in charge now (top 46%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge5 in three years among 15 peopletop 46% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed9.5 yearstop 21% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record7.3 yearstop 49% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

5.0/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
7.4/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 26% of 71 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 74th percentile among 71 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Hanmi Financial Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $213 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 2.7% of its assets as net cash, top 47% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 49.6% of revenue (top 4%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets2.7%top 47% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue49.6%top 4% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
4.8/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 48% of 79 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 48th percentile among 79 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Hanmi Financial Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 14.5% a year over the last three filed years against 9.7% over all 10, speeding up (top 49% of its family); the newest year grew 3% (bottom 45%); capital spending grew 6.2% a year (bottom 46%) (its annual reports). Hanmi Financial Corporation tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+4.8 points a yeartop 49% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth3.0%bottom 45% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending6.2%bottom 46% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
2.7/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 27% of 76 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 27th percentile among 76 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Hanmi Financial Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $411 million in fiscal 2025 came in 14.6% below the $481 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 41% of its family); net income of $76 million against a prior three-year average of $81 million (bottom 9%); a net margin of 18.5% against 24.8% before (bottom 15%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-14.6%top 41% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-6%bottom 9% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-6.3 pointsbottom 15% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton HAFC · research, not advice