profit from every $100 of sales.
$0$100
Hancock Whitney
$65.28+0.43% today
+11.0% in 1 year
1-year low $56.221-year high $79.78
Trading in the middle of its range for the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2022 to 2025.
0%20% a year
You pay $10.68 for every $1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
Not measured for banks and insurers: deposits and policy reserves count as debt, so the usual debt test says nothing about them.
Money in, money out
What Hancock Whitney sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from $1.38 billion in 2022 to $1.51 billion in 2025, with $486 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Hancock Whitney handed back 77% of the cash it generated last year.
Buybacks $247M$154M
Free cash flow 2025$523M
Bought back its own shares$247M
Paid as dividends$154M
Cash vs. debt$695M vs. $1.3B
Hancock Whitney vs. similar companies
Hancock Whitney grows in the middle of these 5 and is priced in the middle for its profits.
| Company | Profit from $100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per $1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hancock Whitney | 10.7× · Cheap | ||
 China Merchants Bank | 7.7× · Cheap | ||
 DBS Group Holdings | 18.2× · Fair price | ||
 UniCredit | 11.5× · Cheap | ||
 HDFC Bank | 18.6× · Fair price |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Hancock Whitney's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of USD | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,378 | 1,367 | 1,438 | 1,509 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 792 | 1,059 | – | – | |
| 524 | 393 | 461 | 486 | |
| 5.98 | 4.50 | 5.28 | 5.67 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 38.0% | 28.7% | 32.0% | 32.2% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of USD | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 35,184 | 35,579 | 35,082 | 35,473 |
| Cash | 888 | 1,188 | 1,514 | 695 |
| Total debt | 2,230 | 1,517 | 967 | 1,338 |
| Total liabilities | 31,841 | 31,775 | 30,954 | 31,013 |
| 3,343 | 3,804 | 4,128 | 4,460 | |
| 87 | 87 | 87 | 85 | |
| 10.6% | 15.0% | – | – | |
| 15.7% | 10.3% | 11.2% | 10.9% |
Cash flow
| In millions of USD | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 842 | 495 | 626 | 542 | |
| 29 | 25 | 10 | 19 | |
| 813 | 470 | 616 | 523 | |
| Dividends paid | 94 | 105 | 131 | 154 |
| 59 | 0 | 38 | 247 | |
| 23 | 25 | 23 | 24 |
This is a bank or insurer, so cash-flow and debt ratios are left out: borrowing and lending is the business itself. Price to book and return on equity are the measures that matter here.
Valuation
- 10.7×
- 10.2×
- –
- 1.3×
- 3.4×
- 9.4%
- 2.9%
Profitability
- 32.2%
- 1.2%
- 8.5%
- 9.3%
- 1.2%
Growth
- +3.1%
- −1.8%
- +10.8%
- −0.7%
How it ranks in Financial Services
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Bottom 30%of 848
Top 37%of 728
Top 32%of 880
Bottom 30%of 878
Top 26%of 932
What analysts expect
- Average price target
- $77.75
- Range
- $76.00 – $79.00
These targets were collected on May 20, 2026 and our analyst feed has not updated since, so we no longer compare them with today's price.
Recent earnings
Our results feed has not updated since May 21, 2026. Results reported after that are not in this table yet.
| Date | EPS | Expected | Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 2026 | 1.52 | 1.48 | +2.7% |
| Jan 20, 2026 | 1.49 | 1.48 | +0.7% |
| Oct 14, 2025 | 1.49 | 1.43 | +4.2% |
| Jul 15, 2025 | 1.37 | 1.34 | +2.2% |
| Apr 15, 2025 | 1.38 | 1.29 | +7.0% |
| Jan 21, 2025 | 1.40 | 1.28 | +9.4% |
| Oct 15, 2024 | 1.33 | 1.30 | +2.3% |
| Jul 16, 2024 | 1.31 | 1.20 | +9.2% |
2.9%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$29a year at today's yield, before tax
+10.8%2020 to 2025
Raised3 yearsin a row, in our data
Paid per share, each year
$0.96 in 2015 → $1.80 in 2025
How safe it looks
31.6% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 29.4%
News
No recent news on file.
Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
3/7Passes 3 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
61Pass
Benjamin Graham
72Pass
Philip Fisher
60Pass
Peter Lynch
32No pass
Joel Greenblatt
21No pass
Charlie Munger
55No pass
Terry Smith
51No pass
Questions about Hancock Whitney
Is Hancock Whitney a good stock to buy?
A strong, very profitable business, and the price looks low. 3 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Hancock Whitney AI analysis
What does Hancock Whitney do?
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. It is in Banks - Regional, based in Gulfport, MS, United States, with 3,658 employees.
Does Hancock Whitney pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 2.9% a year, about 32% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out $154 million in dividends.
Is Hancock Whitney stock halal?
No. Hancock Whitney does not pass our halal screen: its main business, banking, is not permitted. How we check
How has Hancock Whitney stock done over the past year?
Up 11.0% over the past twelve months, to $65.28. It traded between $56.22 and $79.78 and is 18.2% below its high.
Who are Hancock Whitney's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are China Merchants Bank, DBS Group Holdings, UniCredit and HDFC Bank. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Hancock Whitney's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.