Hope Bancorp, Inc. (HOPE)

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Hope Bancorp, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 5 warning events of 3 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, 2 times, the latest 2017-05-22); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2017-05-31); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, 2 times, the latest 2017-05-10) (its current reports).

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Hope Bancorp, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $422 million in fiscal 2016 to $941 million in fiscal 2025, up 9.3% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 17% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Hope Bancorp, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 1.7% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 12 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Hope Bancorp, Inc. earned about 3 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 88 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 4.7% over the year (the filed statements).

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Hope Bancorp, Inc.'s standing among 79 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $941 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 41% by size; a net margin of 6.5% ranks in the bottom 7%; revenue growth of 9.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 13% (its annual reports).

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Hope Bancorp, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Kim, Kevin Sung (Chairman & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2013-06-12, 13.4 years (top 18% of its family); the 18 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 7.3 years (top 39%); 9 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 18 people in charge now (bottom 14%; 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.

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Hope Bancorp, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $560 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 3% of its assets as net cash, top 45% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 16.1% of revenue (bottom 25%) (its annual report).

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Hope Bancorp, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 9.5% a year over the last three filed years against 9.3% over all 10, speeding up (bottom 30% of its family); the newest year grew -1.3% (bottom 23%); capital spending grew 12.8% a year (top 36%) (its annual reports). Hope Bancorp, Inc. 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.

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Hope Bancorp, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $941 million in fiscal 2025 came in 14.5% below the $1.1 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 40% of its family); net income of $62 million against a prior three-year average of $151 million (bottom 2%); a net margin of 6.5% against 17.9% before (bottom 3%) (its annual reports).