First Bancorp PR (NYSE: FBP) on Friday, soared 2.67% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $18.37. Within the past 52 weeks, FBP’s price has moved between $16.25 and $22.40.
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Financial Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 10.55% over the last five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 0.72%. With a float of $160.23 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $163.87 million.
The firm has a total of 3113 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 14.81%, operating margin of 36.26%, and the pretax margin is 44.9%.
First Bancorp PR (FBP) Insider Activity
Observing investor behavior towards Banks – Regional industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of First Bancorp PR is 2.22%, while institutional ownership is 97.36%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Feb 05 ’25, was worth 951,204. In this transaction EVP of this company sold 45,797 shares at a rate of $20.77, taking the stock ownership to the 186,543 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Feb 07 ’25, when Company’s EVP sold 10,321 for $20.75, making the entire transaction worth $214,161. This insider now owns 176,222 shares in total.
First Bancorp PR (FBP) Earnings and Forecasts
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.45 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 0.72% per share during the next fiscal year.
First Bancorp PR (NYSE: FBP) Trading Performance Indicators
First Bancorp PR (FBP) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 2.52. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 7.75.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.81, a number that is poised to hit 0.43 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 2.08 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of First Bancorp PR (FBP)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [First Bancorp PR, FBP], we can find that recorded value of 2.88 million was better than the volume posted last year of 1.17 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 85.30%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.52.
During the past 100 days, First Bancorp PR’s (FBP) raw stochastic average was set at 31.16%, which indicates a significant decrease from 77.29% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 34.15% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 35.43% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $19.52, while its 200-day Moving Average is $19.80. Now, the first resistance to watch is $19.08. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $19.30. The third major resistance level sits at $19.72. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $18.44, it is likely to go to the next support level at $18.02. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $17.80.
First Bancorp PR (NYSE: FBP) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 3.09 billion based on 163,867K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 1,226 M and income totals 298,720 K. The company made 311,930 K in profit during its latest quarter, and 75,700 K in sales during its previous quarter.
