CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP — Director's Dealing 2018

Mar 5, 2018

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP (CATY)
CIK: 0000861842
Period of Report: 2018-03-01

Reporting Person: CHEN HENG W (EVP/CFO)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2018-03-01	Common Stock	M	9707	—	Acquired	102375	Direct
2018-03-01	Common Stock	F	3357	$41.22	Disposed	99018	Direct

Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Exercise Price	Code	Shares	A/D	Expiration	Underlying	Ownership
2018-03-01	Restricted Stock Units	$	M	8173	Disposed		Common Stock (8173)	Direct

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, 2014. 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 24, 2014.

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 8,173 shares of restricted stock unit, 110.641% of the target award was earned based upon the achievement of certain performance criteria.

F4: Performance-based restricted stock units vested on December 31, 2017.