With 0.74 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.43 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $27.62 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $27.23. The 52-week range on FFBC shows that it touched its highest point at $31.18 and its lowest point at $20.59 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $30.38. With its current market cap of 2.63 billion, FFBC has annualized dividend of $0.94 while the current yield stands at 3.41%. FFBC paid its most recent dividend on 1733097600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1733097600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.01.
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 up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 4.12%, but this was down by -4.80% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 6.70% while six-month performance rose 4.59%. The stock gained 23.99% in the past year, while it has gained 2.49% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for FFBC yields 2.32 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.48. For the next quarter, that number is 0.65. This implies an EPS growth rate of -11.90% for this year and 4.45% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 95.49 million FFBC shares are outstanding with a float of 93.50 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 1.71 million, which was 179.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. 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 0.80698997 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 33.0 and a low target of 27.5, the average target price over the next 12 months is 30.375. Based on these targets, FFBC could surge 19.78% to reach the target high and fall by -0.18% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 10.25% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.38883 being high and $2.35121 being low. For FFBC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.37002. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.61 and the low estimate is $0.54. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.59.
