First Foundation Inc (FFWM) Clearly Signals Buy-Into the Stock: Don’t ignore the signals

With 0.85 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier 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 $7.74 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $7.445. The 52-week range on FFWM shows that it touched its highest point at $11.47 and its lowest point at $4.71 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $7.75. With its current market cap of 618.41 million, FFWM has annualized dividend of $0.02 while the current yield stands at 0.27%. FFWM paid its most recent dividend on 1714694400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1714694400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.33.

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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 FFWM was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 11.59%, but this was up by 13.10% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 28.38% while six-month performance rose 35.32%. The stock gained 43.05% in the past year, while it has lost -22.42% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for FFWM yields -1.11 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.46. For the next quarter, that number is 0.04. This implies an EPS growth rate of -60.94% for this year and 268.00% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 82.35 million FFWM shares are outstanding with a float of 74.56 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-15, short shares totaled 5.6 million, which was 680.0000000000001 higher than short shares on 1726185600. In addition to Mr. Scott Farris Kavanaugh as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. James Michael Britton serves as its Executive VP & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.60688996 of FFWM’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 FFWM since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 3 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With FFWM analysts setting a high price target of 9.0 and a low target of 7.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 7.75. Based on these targets, FFWM could surge 19.84% to reach the target high and fall by -6.79% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 3.2% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.17708 being high and $0.08333333 being low. For FFWM, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.125. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $0.01. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.1 and the low estimate is $0.02. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.06.