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Hancock Whitney HWC
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 10% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, trading above our fair value estimate.
- Fair value est.
- $62.24−14%
- Market Value
- $72.69price −1%
- Off 52-wk high
- −10%
- Risk vs market
- Lowbeta 0.56
4 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $71.99
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$56.14−22.0%
- Fair value est.base case$62.24−13.5%
- PriceFri Oct 30 close$71.99you are here
- Market Valueavg paid since Oct 20$72.69+1.0%
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$79.78+10.8%
Fair value estimate
How the range is computed
Financials model (residual income). Same residual-income model as the base: cost of equity 9.5% ±1 point and return on equity 10.0% ±2 points. Bear = 10.5% and 8.0%; bull = 8.5% and 12.0%. A model estimate from public filings, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Price sits inside the range.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, HWC would need a return on equity of about 12% a year; our estimate uses 10%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 30 to Oct 30, 252 sessions). Beta = how much HWC moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Moves much less than the market, but its own price swings are 1.7× the S&P 500’s (it moves on its own news).
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 0.56
- Volatility
- 22% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.32
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.14
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 4 of 5
Cash returnsShare count down 5.2% in a year: $328M of buybacks over 12 months.
Cash returnsDividend yield of 2.7% ($158M paid over 12 months, 37% of earnings).
ProfitabilityNet margin of 29%, above the 21% median for the 142 Finance companies we cover.
ValuationPrice / book of 1.3×, below the 1.8× median for the 143 Finance companies we cover.
Top bearish points 5 of 5
ValuationOur residual-income fair value estimate is $62.24, 14% below the price.
GrowthSales fell 0.2% over the last 12 months, below the 11% median for the 142 Finance companies we cover.
GrowthSales grew only 3.1% a year from FY2022 to FY2025.
ProfitabilityReturn on equity of 9.7%, below the 13% median for the 143 Finance companies we cover.
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: no cash-flow data; ROE under 12% and ROIC under 10%.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on Hancock Whitney in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 1, 9:09 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Major Banks
All fundamentals
P/E 13.5 · ROE 10% · Sales −0%
Valuation
- P/E
- 13.5×Finance median 13.5×
- Price / FCF
- n/acash flow isn't a clean measure for a bank
- FCF yield
- n/acash flow isn't a clean measure for a bank
- EV / EBITDA
- n/anot meaningful for a bank
- Price / sales
- 3.93×
- Price / book
- 1.30×
- Market cap
- $5.8Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- $7.0B
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $1.5Bnet interest income + noninterest income
- Sales growth, 12 months
- −0.2%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- +3.1%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $5.10
- EPS growth, last FY
- +7.4%
- Net income, 12 months
- $427M
- Net income growth
- −9%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- n/anot meaningful for a bank
- Operating margin
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Net margin
- 29.1%
- FCF margin
- 38.1%
- Return on equity
- 10%
- Return on invested capital
- n/anot meaningful for a bank
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $572M
- Total debt
- $1.8B
- Net cash
- n/anot meaningful for a bank
- Debt / equity
- n/adeposits/float make debt/equity not comparable for a bank
- Interest coverage
- n/anot meaningful for a bank
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $560M
- FCF growth, 12 months
- −2%
- Dividend yield
- 2.74%$158M paid
- Payout ratio
- 37%
- Buybacks, 12 months
- $328M5.7% of market cap
- Share count, 1 year
- −5.2%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- $25M
Trailing 12 months to Jun 30, 2026; balance sheet at Jun 30, 2026. From Hancock Whitney’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
Valuation details
DCF $62.24 · MV $72.69
Financials model (residual income): book value $59.70 a share on Jun 30, 2026, plus the earnings above a 9.5% cost of equity. ROE 10.0%, the average of 8.9% for the trailing 12 months to Jun 30, 2026 and 11.2% over fiscal 2021–2025, on average common equity; payout 100% of earnings (dividends 37% + net buybacks 71%; capped at 100%), so book grows by the retained rest; the return above 9.5% fades halfway toward 9.5% over 10 years, then grows at 3% (terminal value). From the 10-Q filed Aug 7, 2026.
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 44 · 5 days −2.1%
The business
Sales +9%
- Return on equity9%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+9%
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.
HWC is outside our quality screen
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