With 0.61 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.05 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $21.22 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $20.675. The 52-week range on FBP shows that it touched its highest point at $22.40 and its lowest point at $15.95 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $23.50. With its current market cap of 3.43 billion, FBP has annualized dividend of $0.64 while the current yield stands at 3.06%. FBP paid its most recent dividend on 1724889600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1740096000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.13.
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 FBP was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.96%, but this was up by 11.99% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 6.84% while six-month performance fell -3.37%. The stock gained 20.43% in the past year, while it has gained 12.59% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for FBP yields 1.81 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.08. For the next quarter, that number is 0.43. This implies an EPS growth rate of 0.72% for this year and 14.32% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 163.87 million FBP shares are outstanding with a float of 160.17 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 5.45 million, which was 332.99996999999996 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Aurelio Aleman-Bermudez as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Orlando Berges-González CPA serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.96797997 of FBP’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 FBP since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 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 FBP analysts setting a high price target of 26.0 and a low target of 20.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 23.5. Based on these targets, FBP could surge 24.22% to reach the target high and fall by -4.44% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 12.28% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.77445 being high and $1.73457 being low. For FBP, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.75451. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.47 and the low estimate is $0.43. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.45.