Earnings To Watch: Hope Bancorp (HOPE) Reports Q2 Results Tomorrow

Regional banking company Hope Bancorp (NASDAQ:HOPE) will be reporting results this Monday morning. Here’s what to look for.

Hope Bancorp missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $139.9 million, up 21.2% year on year. It was a softer quarter for the company, with a miss of analysts’ net interest income estimates and EPS in line with analysts’ estimates.

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This quarter, the market is expecting Hope Bancorp’s revenue to grow 10.5% year on year, slowing from the 13.3% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.

Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business will stay the course heading into earnings. Hope Bancorp has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.

Looking at Hope Bancorp’s peers in the regional banks segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. OFG Bancorp delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 4.5%, beating analysts’ expectations by 3.9%, and Hilltop Holdings reported revenues up 7.5%, topping estimates by 3.4%. OFG Bancorp traded up 4.2% following the results while Hilltop Holdings was also up 3%.

Read our full analysis of OFG Bancorp’s results here and Hilltop Holdings’s results here.

Investors in the regional banks segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices flat over the last month. Hope Bancorp is down 1.1% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $14.38 (compared to the current share price of $13.45).

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