Cathay General Bancorp (CATY) dividend history and yield

Cathay General Bancorp pays a quarterly dividend of $0.38 per share. Its most recent payment had an ex-date of August 28, 2026 and was paid on September 8, 2026. Over the trailing twelve months, it paid $1.48 per share, a yield of about 2.46% at a share price of $60.14.

For most of the record the rate stayed level. The table shows $0.34 per share for seventeen payments in a row, from November 2021 through December 2025. Payments by calendar year were $1.36 in each of 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The rate then rose to $0.38 with the payment that went ex-dividend in February 2026, an increase of four cents or about 11.8%. That is the only change in the table, and the source does not give a growth streak. The three payments of 2026 so far have all been $0.38.

Payments have gone ex-dividend in late February, late May, late August and late November or early December, and been paid about ten days later. If the pattern holds, the next payment would go ex-dividend in late November or early December 2026 and be paid around mid-December. The one raise in the table came with the February payment.