The First Bancshares, Inc. (FBMS) Dividends

FBMS Price Forecast Based on Dividend Discount Model

A technique commonly used by dividend investors to value dividend-issuing stocks is the Dividend Discount Model (DDM), which seeks to determine a fair share price based on the dividend provided by the company relative to a number of other company-specific factors. In the case of FBMS, the dividend discount model StockNews created for the company implies a negative return of 38.71%. Digging deeper, the aspects of First Bancshares Inc's dividend discount model that we found most interesting were:

• Compared to other dividend issuers in the small-sized market cap category, FBMS has a beta lower than 27.19% of them.
• FBMS's market cap of approximately $696 million makes it a small-sized market cap company; out of dividend issuers in this group, the investment opportunity based on the difference between its current share price and its forecasted DDM value is greater than 25.51% of them.
• In terms of who is growing the amount of dividends they return to shareholders, FBMS boasts a higher growth rate in terms of its annual cash distributed to its owners than 98.15% of the dividend issuers in our set.

FBMS Dividends vs. Peers