First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC): Price and Financial Metrics

FFBC POWR Grades

• FFBC scores best on the Growth dimension, with a Growth rank ahead of 81.63% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for FFBC is in Value, which has been heading down over the past 179 days.
• FFBC's current lowest rank is in the Quality metric (where it is better than 22.86% of US stocks).

FFBC Stock Summary

• FFBC's went public 32.88 years ago, making it older than 86.19% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 201.98%, FIRST FINANCIAL BANCORP's debt growth rate surpasses 92.93% of about US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for FFBC comes in at -34.58% -- higher than that of just 13.15% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to FFBC, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are BY, VLY, SBSI, OCFC, and CZNC.
• FFBC's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit FIRST FINANCIAL BANCORP's official web site, go to www.bankatfirst.com.

FFBC Valuation Summary

• FFBC's price/earnings ratio is 11.4; this is 0% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• Over the past 243 months, FFBC's price/sales ratio has gone down 0.3.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for FFBC.

FFBC Growth Metrics

Its 3 year price growth rate is now at -16.65%.
• Its 3 year revenue growth rate is now at 10.85%.
• The 5 year price growth rate now stands at -48.01%.

FFBC's revenue has moved up $319,906,000 over the prior 67 months.

The table below shows FFBC's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30	657.555	280.624	195.471
2022-06-30	651.504	450.251	199.778
2022-03-31	644.989	387.243	199.146
2021-12-31	641.745	390.462	205.16
2021-09-30	646.033	437.801	206.527
2021-06-30	628.247	382.069	187.992

FFBC's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• FFBC has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 50.71% of graded US stocks.
• FFBC's asset turnover comes in at 0.039 -- ranking 190th of 430 Banking stocks.
• WTFC, CTBI, and ZION are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with FFBC.

The table below shows FFBC's key quality metrics over time.