CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP — Director's Dealing 2019

Jan 3, 2019

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP (CATY)
CIK: 0000861842
Period of Report: 2019-01-02

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

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2019-01-02	Common Stock	M	8504	—	Acquired	43431.35	Direct
2019-01-02	Common Stock	F	3169	$33.53	Disposed	40262.35	Direct

Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Exercise Price	Code	Shares	A/D	Expiration	Underlying	Ownership
2019-01-02	Restricted Stock Units	$	M	9844	Disposed		Common Stock (9844)	Direct

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Stock	18689.58	Indirect

Footnotes

F1: Includes 472.527 shares acquired through dividend reinvestment year-to-date

F2: Includes 145.509 shares acquired through dividend reinvestment year-to-date

F3: Shares of the Issuer's Common Stock received by the Reporting Person from the vesting of performance-based restricted stock units granted on December 17, 2015. 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 21, 2015.

F4: Of the previously reported target award of 9,844 shares of performance-based restricted stock units, 80% of the target award was earned based upon the achievement of certain performance criteria.

F5: Performance-based restricted stock units vested on December 31, 2018.

F6: Shares withheld by the Registrant to satisfy tax withholding requirements on vesting of restricted stock units, based on closing price on December 31, 2018.