Are Smart Investors Making the Right Decision? First Bancorp PR (FBP)

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.