A significant driver of top-line growth: First Bancshares Inc Miss (FBMS)

With 0.92 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.2 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $34.395 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $33.16. The 52-week range on FBMS shows that it touched its highest point at $34.00 and its lowest point at $22.96 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $33.06. With its current market cap of 1.04 billion, FBMS has annualized dividend of $0.97 while the current yield stands at 2.91%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.90.

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Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of FBMS was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 12.61%, but this was up by 30.56% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 39.18% while six-month performance rose 26.02%. The stock gained 6.42% in the past year, while it has gained 13.60% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for FBMS yields 2.39 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.69. For the next quarter, that number is 0.62. This implies an EPS growth rate of -17.65% for this year and 6.75% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 31.09 million FBMS shares are outstanding with a float of 28.23 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-07-15, short shares totaled 0.56 million, which was 179.0 higher than short shares on 1718323200. In addition to Mr. Milton Ray Cole Jr. as the firm’s Chairman, President & CEO, Ms. Donna T. Lowery CPA serves as its Executive VP & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.67351997 of FBMS’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for FBMS since 0 analysts follow the stock currently. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential.