In last trading session, First Bancorp PR (NYSE:FBP) saw 0.83 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 0.95. Company’s recent per share price level of $20.95 trading at -$0.15 or -0.71% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $3.38B. That closing price of FBP’s stock is at a discount of -6.92% from its 52-week high price of $22.40 and is indicating a premium of 21.72% from its 52-week low price of $16.40. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 1.05 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 1.37 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For First Bancorp PR (FBP), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.50. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 3 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 1 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 2 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of 0.46 in the current quarter.
First Bancorp PR (NYSE:FBP) trade information
Upright in the red during last session for losing -0.71%, in the last five days FBP remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Monday, 05/12/25 when the stock touched $20.95 price level, adding 1.09% to its value on the day. First Bancorp PR’s shares saw a change of 12.70% in year-to-date performance and have moved 4.33% in past 5-day. First Bancorp PR (NYSE:FBP) showed a performance of 16.20% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 3.34 million shares which calculate 2.25 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 22 to the stock, which implies a rise of 4.77% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 22 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 22. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -5.01% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -5.01% for stock’s current value.
First Bancorp PR (FBP) estimates and forecasts
This year revenue growth is estimated to rise 8.86% from the last financial year’s standing.
5 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 250.73M for the same. And 5 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 257.71M in the next quarter. Company posted 231.67M and 234.57M of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.
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 18.97% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 5.83% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 10.63%.
FBP Dividends
First Bancorp PR 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 3.15%, the share has a forward dividend of 0.66 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 3.03%.
First Bancorp PR (NYSE:FBP)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 1.89% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 98.75 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 100.65%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 98.75% institutions for First Bancorp PR that are currently holding shares of the company. BLACKROCK INC. is the top institutional holder at FBP for having 24.1 million shares of worth $440.81 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 14.6117 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 21.33 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 12.9336 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $390.19 million.
On the other hand, iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 10.08 shares of worth $211.14 million or 6.24% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 5.23 shares on Dec 31, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $109.5 million in the company or a holder of 3.24% of company’s stock.