Hope Bancorp

HOPE

Market cap $1.5B

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hope Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOPE) (the “Company”), the holding company of Bank of Hope (the “Bank”), today announced that Scott Yoon-Suk Whang has elected not to stand for re-election and will be retiring from his position as a member of the Boards of Directors of the Company and the Bank in connection with the Company's 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. “On behalf of the Board, I would like to thank Director Whang for his many years of service and dedication,”.

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hope Bancorp, Inc. (“the Company”) (NASDAQ: HOPE) today announced that the Company will report financial results for its fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2025, before the markets open on Tuesday, January 27, 2026. A conference call to discuss financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2025, will be held on Tuesday, January 27, 2026, at 9:30 a.m. Pacific Time / 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time. A presentation deck to accompany th.

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Hope Bancorp reported mixed Q3 results, with top-line beats but bottom-line misses, and improving asset quality and net interest margins (NIMs). Loan and deposit growth for HOPE remains sluggish, mainly due to California's economic slowdown, but management is expanding into new markets and hiring talent to drive growth. NIMs expanded significantly from 2.54% to 2.89% due to merger synergies and asset redeployment but are expected to stabilize as these benefits normalize.

Hope Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:HOPE ) Q3 2025 Earnings Call October 28, 2025 12:30 PM EDT Company Participants Maxime Olivan Kevin Kim - Chairman, President & CEO Julianna Balicka - Executive VP & CFO Peter Koh - Senior EVP & COO Conference Call Participants Matthew Clark - Piper Sandler & Co., Research Division Gary Tenner - D.A. Davidson & Co., Research Division Kelly Motta - Keefe, Bruyette, & Woods, Inc., Research Division Timothy Coffey - Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, Research Division Presentation Operator Good day, and welcome to the Hope Bancorp 2025 Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call.

Although the revenue and EPS for Hope Bancorp (HOPE) give a sense of how its business performed in the quarter ended September 2025, it might be worth considering how some key metrics compare with Wall Street estimates and the year-ago numbers.

Hope Bancorp (HOPE) came out with quarterly earnings of $0.25 per share, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.26 per share. This compares to earnings of $0.21 per share a year ago.

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hope Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”) (NASDAQ: HOPE) today announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.14 per common share. The dividend is payable on or about November 21, 2025, to all stockholders of record as of the close of business on November 7, 2025. About Hope Bancorp, Inc. Hope Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOPE) is the holding company of Bank of Hope, the only regional Korean American bank in the United States with $18.51 billion.

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hope Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”) (NASDAQ: HOPE), the holding company of Bank of Hope (the “Bank”), today reported unaudited financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2025. For the three months ended September 30, 2025, the Company recorded net income of $30.8 million, or $0.24 per diluted common share, up 28% from net income of $24.2 million, or $0.20 per diluted share, for the three months ended September 30, 2024, and up from a net loss of $27.