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

FFBC POWR Grades

• FFBC scores best on the Momentum dimension, with a Momentum rank ahead of 92.69% of US stocks.
• FFBC's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 177 days.
• FFBC's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 39.45% of US stocks).

FFBC Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 176.96, FIRST FINANCIAL BANCORP is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than 87.12% of US stocks.
• FFBC's went public 32.53 years ago, making it older than 85.55% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• Equity multiplier, or assets relative to shareholders' equity, comes in at 7.42 for FIRST FINANCIAL BANCORP; that's greater than it is for 85.95% of US stocks.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to FIRST FINANCIAL BANCORP, a group of peers worth examining would be HOPE, CZNC, WSBC, UVSP, and BCML.
• 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/sales ratio is 3.2; this is 14.29% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• Over the past 243 months, FFBC's price/earnings ratio has gone down 7.6.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for FFBC.

FFBC Growth Metrics

The 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 112.65%.
• Its 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 108.72%.
• The 3 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 5.97%.

Over the past 33 months, FFBC's revenue has gone up $67,363,000.

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
2022-06-30	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
2021-03-31	601.067	383.146	174.497

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.