With 0.5 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.54 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $4.865 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $4.675. The 52-week range on FFWM shows that it touched its highest point at $8.52 and its lowest point at $4.52 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $7.33. With its current market cap of 387.94 million, FFWM has annualized dividend of $0.01 while the current yield stands at 0.21%. FFWM paid its most recent dividend on 1714694400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1714694400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.23.
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 down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.67%, but this was down by -13.26% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -39.38% while six-month performance fell -26.18%. The stock lost -42.91% in the past year, while it has lost -24.15% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for FFWM yields -1.33 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.43. For the next quarter, that number is 0.02. This implies an EPS growth rate of 288.32% for this year and 116.46% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 82.37 million FFWM shares are outstanding with a float of 71.34 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-02-28, short shares totaled 2.59 million, which was 315.0 higher than short shares on 1738281600. In addition to Mr. James Michael Britton as the firm’s Executive VP & CFO, Mr. Christopher M. Naghibi Esq. serves as its Executive VP & COO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.84445 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 6.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 7.25. Based on these targets, FFWM could surge 91.08% to reach the target high and rise by 27.39% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 53.93% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.16673 being high and $0.08826923 being low. For FFWM, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.1275.
