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Community West Bancshares is a banks - regional business based in the US. Community West Bancshares shares (CWBC) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $17.99 – an increase of 3.63% over the previous week. Community West Bancshares employs 346 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $120.4 million.
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Latest market close | $17.99 |
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52-week range | $15.46 - $22.59 |
50-day moving average | $17.75 |
200-day moving average | $19.21 |
Wall St. target price | $20.75 |
PE ratio | 30.1724 |
Dividend yield | $0.48 (2.74%) |
Earnings per share (TTM) | $0.58 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $17.99 from 2025-05-02
1 week (2025-04-25) | 3.57% |
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1 month (2025-04-04) | 7.98% |
3 months (2025-02-05) | -7.32% |
6 months (2024-11-05) | -4.05% |
1 year (2024-05-03) | 3.39% |
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2 years (2023-05-04) | 76.98% |
3 years (2022-05-04) | 48.80% |
5 years (2020-05-04) | 223.84% |
Valuing Community West Bancshares stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Community West Bancshares's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Community West Bancshares's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 30x. In other words, Community West Bancshares shares trade at around 30x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Revenue TTM | $120.4 million |
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Operating margin TTM | 33.42% |
Gross profit TTM | $120.4 million |
Return on assets TTM | 0.41% |
Return on equity TTM | 4.21% |
Profit margin | 10.2% |
Book value | $19.51 |
Market Capitalization | $333.6 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 33.57% of net profits
Recently Community West Bancshares has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Community West Bancshares shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Community West Bancshares's case, that would currently equate to about $0.48 per share.
While Community West Bancshares's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Community West Bancshares may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
Community West Bancshares's most recent dividend payout was on 15 May 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 1 May 2025 (the "ex-dividend date").
Community West Bancshares's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 31 October 2005 . So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Community West Bancshares shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Community West Bancshares shares which in turn could have impacted Community West Bancshares's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Community West Bancshares's shares have ranged in value from as little as $15.4632 up to $22.5931. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Community West Bancshares's is 0.763. This would suggest that Community West Bancshares's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Community West Bancshares operates as the bank holding company for the Central Valley Community Bank that provides various commercial banking services to small and middle-market businesses and individuals in California. The company accepts demand, savings, and time deposits; certificates of deposit; and non-interest-bearing demand deposits, as well as provides NOW and money market accounts. It also provides products, such as commercial and industrial loans, as well as loans secured by crop production and livestock; commercial real estate construction and other land loans, real estate collateral secured by commercial or professional properties with repayment arising from the owner's business cash flows, investor commercial real estate loans, farmland, and multi-family loans; 1-4 family close-ended, revolving real estate loans, and residential construction loans; manufactured housing loans; and equity loans, lines of credit, and installment and other consumer loans. In addition, the company offers domestic and international wire transfer, inquiry, account status, bill paying, account transfers, cash management, and other customary banking services. The company was formerly known as Central Valley Community Bancorp and changed its name to Community West Bancshares in April 2024. Community West Bancshares was founded in 1979 and is based in Fresno, California. .
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