Hancock Whitney Corporation (HWC)
Financials · NMS
Price as at 1 Oct 2026, 09:01 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Hancock Whitney Corporation trades at $72.04, which is 24% above the $54.46 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure it screens as expensive, which is not the same as saying it will fall.
Our moat model scores it 38 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 15.6 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.
HWC dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $1.50 | 3 |
| 2025 | $1.80 | 4 |
| 2024 | $1.50 | 4 |
| 2023 | $1.20 | 4 |
| 2022 | $1.08 | 4 |
| 2021 | $1.08 | 4 |
| 2020 | $1.08 | 4 |
| 2019 | $1.08 | 4 |
| 2018 | $1.02 | 4 |
| 2017 | $0.960 | 4 |
| 2016 | $0.960 | 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.
HWC earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 10 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 Hancock Whitney Corporation
Hancock Whitney Corporation operates as the financial holding company for Hancock Whitney Bank that provides traditional and online banking services to commercial, small business, and retail customers in the United States. The company offers various transaction and savings deposit products, such as brokered deposits, time deposits, and money market accounts; treasury management services; secured and unsecured loan products, including revolving credit facilities; letters of credit and similar financial guarantees; trust and investment management services to retirement plans, corporations, and individuals; and investment advisory and brokerage products. It also provides commercial and industrial loans, such as commercial non-real estate and real estate loans; construction and land development loans; residential mortgages; and consumer loans comprising second lien mortgage home loans, home equity lines of credit, and nonresidential consumer purpose loans, automobiles, recreational vehicles and boats, other personal purposes, deposit account secured loans, and small portfolio of credit card receivables. In addition, the company offers commercial finance products to middle market and corporate clients comprising leases and related structures; invests in new market tax credit activities and holds certain foreclosed assets; fixed annuity and life insurance products, investment management and advisory, and other services; and underwrites transactions primarily for banking clients, as well as debt and mortgage-related securities. The company was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Gulfport, Mississippi.
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.
HWC passes 2 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
9 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Ken Fisher, Fisher Asset Management, LLC$38.09M · 0.0% of book
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$37.57M · 0.0% of book
- Arrowstreet Capital, ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$34.06M · 0.0% of book
- D. E. Shaw, D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc.$21.86M · 0.0% of book
- Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, LP$19.00M · 0.1% 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.
HWC 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 Hancock Whitney Corporation (HWC) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $54.46, HWC at $72.04 is 24% above 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 HWC?
9 of the institutions we track reported a position in HWC 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 HWC's P/E ratio?
HWC trades at 15.6 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 Hancock Whitney Corporation (HWC) pay a dividend?
Yes. Hancock Whitney Corporation yields 2.50% at the current share price. It has paid $1.95 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 34 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 HWC data?
Fundamentals for HWC come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NMS; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 1 Oct 2026, 09:01 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.