Cathay Financial (2882.TW)
Financials · TWSE · Taiwan
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Cathay Financial trades at NT$96.00, which is 121% below the NT$211.86 our discounted cash flow model puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a DCF is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 37 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 13.6 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
About Cathay Financial
Cathay Financial Holding Co., Ltd., through its subsidiaries, provides various financial products and services in Taiwan, rest of Asia, and internationally. The company offers consumer banking services, such as deposit and remittance services; and credit services, including secured and unsecured consumer loans, adjustable-rate mortgage, revolving mortgage, and government subsidized mortgage. It also provides corporate banking services, including corporate, sustainable, working capital, capital expenditure, and bill financing; financing for SMEs; loans for six core strategic industries; project lending; syndicated and structured loans; guarantee and acceptance services comprising tender and performance bond, prepayment, loan, promissory note, post-dated check, and medium/long term debt guarantee; trade financing solutions, such as import/export service, supply chain financing, and forfeiting and factoring; and cash management services. In addition, the company offers wealth management solutions; trust business solutions, such as mutual fund and foreign securities service, real estate escrow trust, joint construction trust, urban renewal trust, and real estate inheritance trust; personal trust services, including children's, retirement, insurance, foreign currency money, equity planning, capital contribution, share ownership, dividend transfer, inheritance, and charity trust; corporate trust services, such as employee welfare and escrow trust, and electronic payment service; custodian service for investment trust funds, discretionary investment accounts, foreigners' investments, private equity funds, and investment-linked insurance policies and securities. Further, it offers credit card services; merchant acquiring services; digital banking services through CUBE App and online banking services; and cross-border financial services. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.
2882.TW passes 6 of our 30 screens today
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Common questions
Is Cathay Financial (2882.TW) undervalued?
Against our discounted cash flow estimate of NT$211.86, 2882.TW at NT$96.00 is 121% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation, and most of a DCF's output sits in a terminal value nobody can forecast.
What is 2882.TW's P/E ratio?
2882.TW trades at 13.6 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.