With 0.51 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.42 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $30.0 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $29.12. The 52-week range on FFBC shows that it touched its highest point at $30.11 and its lowest point at $19.00 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $28.38. With its current market cap of 2.78 billion, FFBC has annualized dividend of $0.93 while the current yield stands at 3.19%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.00.
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 FFBC was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -0.92%, but this was up by 12.82% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 18.37% while six-month performance rose 22.76%. The stock gained 51.56% in the past year, while it has gained 22.65% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for FFBC yields 2.32 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.45. For the next quarter, that number is 0.65. This implies an EPS growth rate of -11.82% for this year and 3.29% 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 6.91%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 95.14 million FFBC shares are outstanding with a float of 93.47 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 1.51 million, which was 158.00001 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Mr. Archie M. Brown Jr. as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. James Michael Anderson serves as its Executive VP, CFO & COO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.78452003 of FFBC’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 FFBC since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 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 FFBC analysts setting a high price target of 28.0 and a low target of 27.5, the average target price over the next 12 months is 27.875. Based on these targets, FFBC could drop -3.88% to reach the target high and fall by -5.6% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -4.31% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.40013 being high and $2.34387 being low. For FFBC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.372. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $0.59. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.6 and the low estimate is $0.54. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.58.
