How to buy Community West Bancshares stock

Community West Bancshares is a banks-regional business based in the US. Community West Bancshares shares (CWBC) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars.

How to buy shares in Community West Bancshares

1. Compare share trading platforms. If you're a beginner, look for a platform with low commissions, expert ratings and investment tools to track your portfolio. Narrow down top brands with our comparison table.
2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Community West Bancshares. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: CWBC. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Community West Bancshares reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. Weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Community West Bancshares, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Community West Bancshares. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

Community West Bancshares share price

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Community West Bancshares shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-02-24.

52-week range	USD$5.1393 - USD$10.931
50-day moving average	USD$9.1788
200-day moving average	USD$8.605
Wall St. target price	N/A
PE ratio	10.0515
Dividend yield	USD$0.195 (2.01%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$0.97

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Community West Bancshares financials

Revenue TTM	USD$39.3 million
Operating margin TTM	31.37%
Gross profit TTM	USD$39.3 million
Return on assets TTM	0.87%
Return on equity TTM	9.64%
Profit margin	20.99%
Book value	$10.505
Market capitalisation	USD$82.6 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Community West Bancshares shares

There are currently 2,773 Community West Bancshares shares held short by investors – that's known as Community West Bancshares's "short interest". This figure is 39.7% down from 4,602 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Community West Bancshares shares can be evaluated.

Community West Bancshares's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Community West Bancshares's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Community West Bancshares shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Community West Bancshares shares traded daily (recently around 6162.2222222222). Community West Bancshares's SIR currently stands at 0.45. In other words for every 100,000 Community West Bancshares shares traded daily on the market, roughly 450 shares are currently held short.

However Community West Bancshares's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Community West Bancshares shares, or, against the total number of tradable Community West Bancshares shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Community West Bancshares's short interest could be expressed as 0% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Community West Bancshares shares in existence, roughly 0 shares are currently held short) or 0.0004% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Community West Bancshares shares, roughly 0 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Community West Bancshares.

Find out more about how you can short Community West Bancshares stock.

Have Community West Bancshares's shares ever split?

Community West Bancshares's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 2 March 1998. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Community West Bancshares shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Community West Bancshares shares which in turn could have impacted Community West Bancshares's share price.

Community West Bancshares share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Community West Bancshares's shares have ranged in value from as little as $5.1393 up to $10.931. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Community West Bancshares's is 1.0283. This would suggest that Community West Bancshares's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Community West Bancshares overview

Community West Bancshares operates as the bank holding company for Community West Bank, N.A. that provides various financial products and services in California. The company offers deposit products, such as checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, and fixed rate and fixed maturity certificates of deposit, as well as cash management products. It also provides commercial, commercial real estate, consumer, manufactured housing, and small business administration loans, as well as agricultural loans for real estate and operating lines; home equity lines of credit collateralized by residential real estate; single family real estate loans; and installment loans consisting of automobile and general-purpose loans. The company serves small to medium-sized businesses and their owners, professionals, high-net worth individuals, and non-profit organizations. It operates a network of eight branch banking offices in Goleta, Oxnard, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, Ventura, Paso Robles, and Westlake Village. Community West Bancshares was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Goleta, California.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Community West Bancshares is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 32.655% of Community West Bancshares shares are held by insiders and 22.799% by institutions.

• When does the fiscal year end for Community West Bancshares?

  Community West Bancshares's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Community West Bancshares based?

  Community West Bancshares's address is: 445 Pine Avenue, Goleta, CA, United States, 93117

• What is Community West Bancshares's ISIN number?

  Community West Bancshares's international securities identification number is: US2041571017

• What is Community West Bancshares's CUSIP number?

  Community West Bancshares's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 204157101