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CATY vs TFC

Side-by-side comparison of Cathay General Bancorp (CATY) and Truist Financial Corporation (TFC): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both CATY and TFC operate in Major Banks (Finance), so they compete in similar markets.
  • TFC is the larger of the two at $83.09B, about 24.1x CATY ($3.44B).
  • Over the past year, CATY is up 29.4% and TFC is up 32.4% - TFC leads by 3.0 points.
  • CATY has been more active in the news (19 items in the past 4 weeks vs 8 for TFC).
  • TFC has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 5 for CATY).
PerformanceCATY+29.38%TFC+32.36%
2025-04-28+0.00%2026-04-24
MetricCATYTFC
Company
Cathay General Bancorp
Truist Financial Corporation
Price
$54.37-1.61%
$50.72-1.33%
Market cap
$3.44B
$83.09B
1M return
+9.92%
+11.69%
1Y return
+29.38%
+32.36%
Industry
Major Banks
Major Banks
Exchange
NASDAQ
NYSE
IPO
News (4w)
19
8
Recent ratings
5
25
CATY

Cathay General Bancorp

Cathay General Bancorp operates as the holding company for Cathay Bank that offers various commercial banking products and services to individuals, professionals, and small to medium-sized businesses in the United States. The company offers various deposit products, including passbook accounts, checking accounts, money market deposit accounts, certificates of deposit, individual retirement accounts, and public funds deposits. It also provides loan products, such as commercial mortgage loans, commercial loans, small business administration loans, residential mortgage loans, real estate construction loans, and home equity lines of credit, as well as installment loans to individuals for automobile, household, and other consumer expenditures. In addition, the company offers trade financing, letter of credit, wire transfer, forward currency spot and forward contract, traveler's check, safe deposit, night deposit, social security payment deposit, collection, bank-by-mail, drive-up and walk-up window, automatic teller machine, Internet banking, investment, and other customary bank services, as well as securities and insurance products. As of January 27, 2021, it operated 38 branches in California; 10 branches in New York; three branches in Illinois; four branches in Washington; two branches in Texas; and one each branch in Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, and Hong Kong, as well as a representative office in Beijing, Taipei, and Shanghai. The company was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

TFC

Truist Financial Corporation

Truist Financial Corporation, a holding company, provides banking and trust services in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States. The company operates through three segments: Consumer Banking and Wealth, Corporate and Commercial Banking, and Insurance Holdings. Its deposit products include noninterest-bearing checking, interest-bearing checking, savings, and money market deposit accounts, as well as certificates of deposit and individual retirement accounts. The company also provides funding; asset management; automobile lending; bankcard lending; consumer finance; home equity and mortgage lending; insurance, such as property and casualty, life, health, employee benefits, workers compensation and professional liability, surety coverage, title, and other insurance products; investment brokerage; mobile/online banking; and payment, lease financing, small business lending, and wealth management/private banking services. In addition, it offers association, capital market, institutional trust, insurance premium and commercial finance, international banking, leasing, merchant, commercial deposit and treasury, government finance, commercial middle market lending, small business and student lending, floor plan and commercial mortgage lending, mortgage warehouse lending, private equity investment, real estate lending, and supply chain financing services. Further, the company provides corporate and investment banking, retail and wholesale brokerage, securities underwriting, and investment advisory services. As of December 31, 2020, the company operated through 2,781 banking offices. The company was formerly known as BB&T Corporation and changed its name to Truist Financial Corporation in December 2019. Truist Financial Corporation was founded in 1872 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.