First Bancorp (NASDAQ:FBNC) Shares Are Up 7.84 Percent In A Week – But Can The Gains Continue?

In last trading session, First Bancorp (NASDAQ:FBNC) saw 0.84 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 0.88. Company’s recent per share price level of $43.75 trading at $0.6 or 1.39% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $1.81B. That closing price of FBNC’s stock is at a discount of -15.06% from its 52-week high price of $50.34 and is indicating a premium of 30.56% from its 52-week low price of $30.38. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 0.24 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 183.97K if we extend that period to 3-months.

For First Bancorp (FBNC), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 2.20. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 2 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 0 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 2 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.

First Bancorp (NASDAQ:FBNC) trade information

Upright in the green during last session for gaining 1.39%, in the last five days FBNC remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Friday, 06/27/25 when the stock touched $43.75 price level, adding 0.11% to its value on the day. First Bancorp’s shares saw a change of 45.83% in year-to-date performance and have moved 7.84% in past 5-day. First Bancorp (NASDAQ:FBNC) showed a performance of 5.35% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 0.97 million shares which calculate 5.96 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 50 to the stock, which implies a rise of 12.5% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 50 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 50. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -14.29% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -14.29% for stock’s current value.

First Bancorp (FBNC) estimates and forecasts

Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of -9.85% during past 5 years.

FBNC Dividends

First Bancorp is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Apr-23 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 2.01%, the share has a forward dividend of 0.88 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 2.3%.

First Bancorp (NASDAQ:FBNC)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 3.51% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 71.76 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 74.37%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 71.76% institutions for First Bancorp that are currently holding shares of the company. BLACKROCK INC. is the top institutional holder at FBNC for having 6.06 million shares of worth $193.3 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 14.8269 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 2.8 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 6.854 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $89.36 million.

On the other hand, iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and Franklin Value Investors Trust-FRANKLIN SMALL CAP VALUE FUND are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Apr 30, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 2.55 shares of worth $111.67 million or 6.16% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 1.42 shares on Apr 30, 2025 , making its stake of worth around $62.06 million in the company or a holder of 3.42% of company’s stock.

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