Financial Services
Live Price
Offline$33.50
+1.76% today
1Y Change
+34.09%
Window
Jun 26, 2025 → Jun 24, 2026
Coverage: 249 bars · Jun 26, 2025 → Jun 24, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC) is a Financial Services stock with a market cap of $3.22B and listed on NASDAQ. The stock last traded around $33.50 and up 34.1% across the available one-year price window (Jun 26, 2025 → Jun 24, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +2.7%, EPS growth of +11.2%, a dividend yield of 3.2%. What stands out right now is revenue +2.7%, EPS +11.2%, free cash flow +31.5% with operating margin 26.4% and ROIC 1.2%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 3.2%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 11.4 and price/sales 2.4. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a income-oriented value setup than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines FFBC price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Financial Services peers on this page.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
FFBC
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
FFBC Max Drawdown
-14.96%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for FFBC and SPY.
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$654.7M
-15.5% YoY
FY Net Income
$205.2M
-5.7% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$372.8M
+99.3% YoY
Revenue Growth
+2.7%
EPS Growth
+11.2%
Gross Margin
70.0%
Net Margin
20.9%
Income statement
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 1.3B | 1.2B | 1.1B | 775M | 655M |
| Gross Profit | 862M | 788M | 797M | 697M | 642M |
| Operating Income | 321M | 268M | 319M | 242M | 241M |
| EBITDA | 343M | 307M | 356M | 281M | 280M |
| Net Income | 256M | 229M | 256M | 218M | 205M |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 179M | 904M | 1.0B | 596M | 435M |
| Total Assets | 21.1B | 18.6B | 17.5B | 17.0B | 16.3B |
| Total Liabilities | 18.4B | 16.1B | 15.3B | 15.0B | 14.1B |
| Shareholder Equity | 2.8B | 2.4B | 2.3B | 2.0B | 2.3B |
| Total Debt | 1.2B | 1.1B | 1.3B | 1.6B | 706M |
| Net Debt | 1.0B | 198M | 276M | 1.0B | 271M |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
388M
+93.3% YoY
Capital Expenditures
15M
-11.3% YoY
Free Cash Flow
373M
+99.3% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
70.0%
Operating Margin
26.4%
Net Margin
20.9%
ROE
10.2%
Debt / Equity
0.32x
Next Step
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