A look at First Foundation Inc’s (FFWM) recent performance gives investors their first glimpse of hope.

On Friday, First Foundation Inc (NYSE: FFWM) was 3.67% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $5.99. A 52-week range for FFWM has been $4.84 – $11.47.

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Financial Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 21.76% over the last five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at -60.16%. With a float of $72.12 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $82.36 million.

The firm has a total of 567 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 100.12%, operating margin of 21.28%, and the pretax margin is -16.85%.

First Foundation Inc (FFWM) Insider Activity

Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward First Foundation Inc stocks. The insider ownership of First Foundation Inc is 12.44%, while institutional ownership is 71.49%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Dec 18 ’24, was worth 4,182,752. Before that another transaction happened on Feb 29 ’24, when Company’s Chairman sold 25,000 for $8.16, making the entire transaction worth $203,975. This insider now owns 1,230,622 shares in total.

First Foundation Inc (FFWM) Earnings and Forecasts

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.06 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -60.16% per share during the next fiscal year.

First Foundation Inc (NYSE: FFWM) Trading Performance Indicators

You can see what First Foundation Inc (FFWM) is doing with its current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.81.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is -1.11, a number that is poised to hit 0.04 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 0.46 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of First Foundation Inc (FFWM)

Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [First Foundation Inc, FFWM], we can find that recorded value of 0.77 million was better than the volume posted last year of 0.6 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 6.28%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.39.

During the past 100 days, First Foundation Inc’s (FFWM) raw stochastic average was set at 17.06%, which indicates a significant increase from 14.16% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 52.03% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 58.31% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $7.48, while its 200-day Moving Average is $6.66. Now, the first resistance to watch is $6.42. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $6.63. The third major resistance level sits at $6.89. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $5.95, it is likely to go to the next support level at $5.69. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $5.48.

First Foundation Inc (NYSE: FFWM) Key Stats

There are 82,365K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 530.27 million. As of now, sales total 623,040 K while income totals -199,060 K. Its latest quarter income was 51,580 K while its last quarter net income were -82,170 K.