A History of Outperforming Analyst Forecasts and Beating the Odds: First Financial Bankshares, Inc. (FFIN)

With 0.51 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.56 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $39.13 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $38.35. The 52-week range on FFIN shows that it touched its highest point at $39.53 and its lowest point at $22.84 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $35.50. With its current market cap of 5.54 billion, FFIN has annualized dividend of $0.72 while the current yield stands at 1.86%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.79.

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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 FFIN was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 6.57%, but this was up by 2.79% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 11.32% while six-month performance rose 35.25%. The stock gained 57.14% in the past year, while it has gained 27.89% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for FFIN yields 1.41 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.62. For the next quarter, that number is 0.39. This implies an EPS growth rate of 7.43% for this year and 6.96% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 10.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 4.67%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 141.79 million FFIN shares are outstanding with a float of 137.25 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-09-30, short shares totaled 7.77 million, which was 544.0 higher than short shares on 1724976000. In addition to Mr. F. Scott Dueser as the firm’s Chairman, President & CEO, Ms. Michelle S. Hickox serves as its EVP, CFO, Secretary & Treasurer.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.76972 of FFIN’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 FFIN 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.