First Bancorp (NASDAQ: FBNC) started the day on Wednesday, with a price increase of 11.83% at $47.16, before settling in for the price of $42.17 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, FBNC posted a 52-week range of $28.59-$45.41.
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It was noted that the giant of the Financial sector posted annual sales growth of 14.18% over the last 5 years. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was -3.39%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 1.32%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $41.11 million, simultaneously with a float of $39.80 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $1.95 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $42.20, while the 200-day Moving Average is $36.44.
First Bancorp (FBNC) Ownership Facts and Figures
Now let’s turn our focus to how large-scale investors are working with this stock of the Banks – Regional Industry. First Bancorp’s current insider ownership accounts for 3.59%, in contrast to 63.66% institutional ownership. Preceding that transaction, on Sep 20 ’24, Company’s Director sold 17,750 for 43.96, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 780,290. This particular insider is now the holder of 67,654 in total.
First Bancorp (FBNC) Earnings and Revenue Records
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.73 per share during the current fiscal year.
First Bancorp’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 1.32% and is forecasted to reach 3.11 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 8.10% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the -3.39% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
First Bancorp (NASDAQ: FBNC) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for First Bancorp (FBNC). The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 1.51. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $19.01, and its Beta score is 1.03. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 3.42. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 14.88.
In the same vein, FBNC’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 2.48, a figure that is expected to reach 0.72 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 3.11 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of First Bancorp (FBNC)
If we take a close look at the recent performances of First Bancorp (NASDAQ: FBNC), its last 5-days Average volume was 0.22 million that shows progress from its year to date volume of 0.16 million. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 55.55% While, its Average True Range was 1.71.
Raw Stochastic average of First Bancorp (FBNC) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 94.38%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 86.38% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 56.87% that was higher than 39.26% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
