CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP — Director's Dealing 2017

Feb 22, 2017

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP (CATY)
CIK: 0000861842
Period of Report: 2017-02-17

Reporting Person: WONG IRWIN (SEVP, Chief Operating Officer)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2002-02-17	Common Stock	M	11010	—	Acquired	40804.89	Direct
2017-02-17	Common Stock	F	4247	$39.42	Disposed	36557.89	Direct
2017-02-17	Common Stock	M	15057	—	Acquired	51614.89	Direct
2017-02-17	Common Stock	F	5761	$39.42	Disposed	45853.89	Direct

Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Exercise Price	Code	Shares	A/D	Expiration	Underlying	Ownership
2017-02-17	Restricted Stock Units	$	M	9823	Disposed		Common Stock (9823)	Direct
2017-02-17	Restricted Stock Units	$	M	9523	Disposed		Common Stock (9523)	Direct

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Stock	17818.78	Indirect

Footnotes

F1: Shares of the Issuer's Common Stock received by the Reporting Person from the vesting of performance-based restricted stock units granted on December 18, 2013. Such restricted stock units were previously reported in Table II on a Form 4 filed by the Reporting Person with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 20, 2013.

F2: Shares withheld by Registrant to satisfy minimum statutory withholding requirements on vesting of restricted stock units.

F3: Of the previously reported target award of 9,823 shares of restricted stock unit, 106% of the target award was earned based upon the achievement of certain performance criteria.

F4: Of the previously reported target award of 9,523 shares of performance-based restricted stock units, 150% of the target award was earned based upon the achievement of certain performance criteria.

F5: Performance-based restricted stock units vested on December 31, 2016.