A share price of First Financial Bancorp [FFBC] is currently trading at $26.55, up 4.08%. One of the good ways to gauge the recent performance is if the stock’s short-term value is rising or falling. The FFBC shares have gain 7.66% over the last week, with a monthly amount glided 11.37%, and seem to be holding up well over a long-time horizon.
From an analyst’s perspective:
First Financial Bancorp [NASDAQ: FFBC] stock has seen the most recent analyst activity on August 19, 2025, when Hovde Group initiated its Outperform rating and assigned the stock a price target of $31. Previously, Truist started tracking the stock with Hold rating on May 13, 2025, and set its price target to $27. On December 09, 2024, upgrade upgraded it’s rating to Overweight. Piper Sandler upgraded its rating to a Overweight and raised its price target to $24 on July 10, 2023. Piper Sandler downgraded its rating to Neutral for this stock on March 03, 2021, and upped its price target to $23. In a note dated February 01, 2021, Piper Sandler upgraded an Overweight rating on this stock and boosted its target price from $19 to $22.
First Financial Bancorp experienced fluctuations in its stock price throughout the past year between $21.10 and $31.18. Currently, Wall Street analysts expect the stock to reach $25 within the next 12 months. First Financial Bancorp [NASDAQ: FFBC] shares were valued at $26.55 at the most recent close of the market. An investor can expect a potential drop of -5.84% based on the average FFBC price forecast.
Analyzing the FFBC fundamentals
Trailing Twelve Months sales for First Financial Bancorp [NASDAQ:FFBC] were 1.23B which represents -0.10% decline. Gross Profit Margin for this corporation currently stands at 0.37% with Operating Profit Margin at 0.12%, Pretax Profit Margin comes in at 0.26%, and Net Profit Margin reading is 0.21%. To continue investigating profitability, this company’s Return on Assets is posted at 0.01, Equity is 0.1 and Total Capital is 0.01. An extended analysis of the company’s primary financial structure reveals a debt-to-equity ratio of0.4.
Before buying any particular stock, readers tend to pay close attention to the indicators that support and create resistance. The company’s stock is currently sitting at 25.90 points at the first support level, and at 25.25 for the second support level. However, for the 1st resistance point, the stock is sitting at 26.93, and for the 2nd resistance point, it is at 27.31.
Ratios To Look Out For
To put it in perspective, the Current Ratio for First Financial Bancorp [NASDAQ:FFBC] is 0.12. Considering the valuation of this stock, the price to sales ratio is 2.07, the price to book ratio is 0.99 and price to earnings (TTM) ratio is 10.63.
Transactions by insiders
Recent insider trading involved OBRIEN THOMAS MURRAY, Director, that happened on Aug 22 ’25 when 7383.0 shares were purchased. President & CEO, Brown Archie M completed a deal on Aug 14 ’25 to sell 12500.0 shares. Meanwhile, former director Booth Cynthia O bought 2283.0 shares on Jul 16 ’25.
