First Financial Bancorp
FFBC
About: First Financial Bancorp is a mid-sized, regional bank holding company. It engages in the business of commercial banking and other banking and banking-related activities through its subsidiary. The range of banking services provided to individuals and businesses includes commercial lending, real estate lending and consumer financing. Real estate loans are loans secured by a mortgage lien on the real property of the borrower, which may either be residential property or commercial property. In addition, it offers deposit products that include interest-bearing and noninterest-bearing accounts, time deposits and cash management services for commercial customers. A full range of trust and wealth management services is also provided through First Financial's Wealth Management line of business.
Employees: 2,090
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2025 Q2 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
49% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $1.27M | Put options by funds: $849K
32% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 29 | Existing positions closed: 22
2% more funds holding
Funds holding: 278 [Q1] → 283 (+5) [Q2]
0.45% less ownership
Funds ownership: 79.89% [Q1] → 79.44% (-0.45%) [Q2]
2% less repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 104 | Existing positions reduced: 106
3% less capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $1.9B [Q1] → $1.85B (-$58.9M) [Q2]
Research analyst outlook
4 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
4 analyst ratings
RBC Capital
Jon Arfstrom
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$28
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Sector Perform
Maintained
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28 Jul 2025 |
Stephens & Co.
Terry McEvoy
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$29
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Overweight
Reiterated
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27 Jun 2025 |
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods
Christopher Mcgratty
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$32
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Market Perform
Maintained
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25 Jun 2025 |
RBC Capital
Karl Shepard
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$27
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Sector Perform
Reiterated
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25 Jun 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 13 articles about FFBC published over the past 30 days