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Note 4 - Earnings per Share (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2014
Earnings Per Share [Abstract] |
Schedule of Earnings Per Share, Basic and Diluted [Table Text Block] |
|  | Three months ended September 30, |  |  | Nine months ended September 30, |
(Dollars in thousands, except share and per share data) |  | 2014 |  |  | 2013 |  |  | 2014 |  |  | 2013 |
Net income attributable to Cathay General Bancorp |  | $ | 35,909 |  |  | $ | 32,478 |  |  | $ | 102,252 |  |  | $ | 91,241 |
Dividends on preferred stock and noncash charge from repayment |  |  | - |  |  |  | (2,434 | ) |  |  | - |  |  |  | (9,685 | )
Net income available to common stockholders |  | $ | 35,909 |  |  | $ | 30,044 |  |  | $ | 102,252 |  |  | $ | 81,556 |
Weighted-average shares: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Basic weighted-average number of common shares outstanding |  |  | 79,677,952 |  |  |  | 78,894,262 |  |  |  | 79,639,202 |  |  |  | 78,853,333 |
Dilutive effect of weighted-average outstanding common share equivalents |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Warrants |  |  | 346,101 |  |  |  | 171,426 |  |  |  | 306,306 |  |  |  | 57,771 |
Options |  |  | 109,803 |  |  |  | - |  |  |  | 103,022 |  |  |  | - |
Restricted stock units |  |  | 42,244 |  |  |  | 48,434 |  |  |  | 39,289 |  |  |  | 33,048 |
Diluted weighted-average number of common shares outstanding |  |  | 80,176,100 |  |  |  | 79,114,122 |  |  |  | 80,087,819 |  |  |  | 78,944,152 |
Average stock options and warrants with anti-dilutive effect |  |  | 1,990,358 |  |  |  | 3,668,285 |  |  |  | 1,993,384 |  |  |  | 4,958,218 |
Earnings per common share: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Basic |  | $ | 0.45 |  |  | $ | 0.38 |  |  | $ | 1.28 |  |  | $ | 1.03 |
Diluted |  | $ | 0.45 |  |  | $ | 0.38 |  |  | $ | 1.28 |  |  | $ | 1.03 |

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of an entity's basic and diluted earnings per share calculations, including a reconciliation of numerators and denominators of the basic and diluted per-share computations for income from continuing operations. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 260 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6371337&loc=d3e3550-109257 + Details
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