Community West Bancshares (CWBC)
Financials · NCM
Price as at 30 Sept 2026, 17:25 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Community West Bancshares trades at $25.87, which is 131% below the $59.75 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a valuation model is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 40 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 12.6 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.
CWBC dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $0.360 | 3 |
| 2025 | $0.480 | 4 |
| 2024 | $0.480 | 4 |
| 2023 | $0.480 | 4 |
| 2022 | $0.480 | 4 |
| 2021 | $0.470 | 4 |
| 2020 | $0.440 | 4 |
| 2019 | $0.430 | 4 |
| 2018 | $0.310 | 4 |
| 2017 | $0.240 | 4 |
| 2016 | $0.240 | 4 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
CWBC earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 5 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About Community West Bancshares
Community West Bancshares operates as the bank holding company for Community West Bank, a California state-chartered commercial bank that provides a range of banking products and services to businesses, agribusiness customers, professionals, and individuals throughout Central California. The company accepts checking, savings, money market, and time deposit accounts, including certificates of deposit and non-interest-bearing demand deposits. It offers commercial and industrial loans; commercial real estate, construction, agricultural, farmland, multifamily, residential construction, mortgage, manufactured housing, SBA, and consumer loans; as well as lines of credit and other lending products. The company also provides private banking, treasury management, cash management, online and mobile banking, remote deposit capture, domestic and international wire transfers, bill payment, account transfers, and other customary banking services. Community West Bank operates full-service banking centers across Greater Sacramento, the San Joaquin Valley, and the Central Coast. 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.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
CWBC passes 4 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
7 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Arrowstreet Capital, ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$8.77M · 0.0% of book
- Two Sigma, TWO SIGMA INVESTMENTS, LP$7.71M · 0.0% of book
- Renaissance Technologies, RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC$6.97M · 0.0% of book
- Ken Griffin, CITADEL ADVISORS LLC$5.95M · 0.0% of book
- Marshall Wace, MARSHALL WACE, LLP$2.74M · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
CWBC peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Banks - Regional), then in the same sector.
- HDB HDFC Bank Limited
- IBN ICICI Bank Limited
- CIXPF CaixaBank, S.A.
- ITUB Itaú Unibanco Holding S.A.
- NWG NatWest Group plc
- DB Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft
- NU Nu Holdings Ltd.
- CRARF Crédit Agricole S.A.
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Common questions
Is Community West Bancshares (CWBC) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $59.75, CWBC at $25.87 is 131% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own CWBC?
7 of the institutions we track reported a position in CWBC in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is CWBC's P/E ratio?
CWBC trades at 12.6 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.
Does Community West Bancshares (CWBC) pay a dividend?
Yes. Community West Bancshares yields 1.77% at the current share price. It has paid $0.480 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 14 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
Where does SteadyShares get its CWBC data?
Fundamentals for CWBC come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NCM; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 30 Sept 2026, 17:25 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 88/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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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.