As Regional – Mid-Atlantic Banks company, First Bancorp (NASDAQ:FBNC) is competing with its competitors based on the profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation, institutional ownership.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
First Bancorp has 67.6% of its shares held by institutional investors and an average of 54.15% institutional ownership for its competitors. 1.2% of First Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.32% of all Regional – Mid-Atlantic Banks companies shares are held by company insiders.
Profitability
On first table we have First Bancorp and its competitors’ return on equity, net margins and return on assets.
Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
First Bancorp | 32.72% | 9.90% | 1.20% |
Industry Average | 28.91% | 8.89% | 0.95% |
Valuation and Earnings
The following data compares First Bancorp and its competitors’ net income, top-line revenue and valuation.
Net Income | Gross Revenue | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
First Bancorp | 89.29M | 272.85M | 12.90 |
Industry Average | 99.73M | 345.03M | 14.19 |
First Bancorp has lower revenue and P/E Ratio than its competitors. The company has a lower P/E ratio which is currently more affordable in compare to its competitors.
Analyst Recommendations
Table 3 shows breakdown of recent ratings for First Bancorp and its competitors.
Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
First Bancorp | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Industry Average | 1.00 | 1.25 | 2.33 | 2.68 |
As a group, Regional – Mid-Atlantic Banks companies have a potential upside of 16.79%.
Performance
In this table we provide the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of First Bancorp and its competitors.
Performance (W) | Performance (M) | Performance (Q) | Performance (HY) | Performance (Y) | Performance (YTD) | |
First Bancorp | -2.24% | 5.55% | -3.12% | -6.73% | 12.4% | 18.83% |
Industry Average | 1.05% | 6.89% | 6.14% | 11.66% | 11.52% | 16.00% |
For the past year First Bancorp was more bullish than its competitors.
Risk & Volatility
A beta of 1.28 shows that First Bancorp is 28.00% more volatile than S&P 500. Competitively, First Bancorp’s competitors’ beta is 0.83 which is 17.25% less volatile than S&P 500.
Dividends
$0.4 per share with a dividend yield of 1.1% is the annual dividend that First Bancorp pays. On the other side, 2.29% is the dividend yield of First Bancorp’s competitors.
Summary
First Bancorp’s competitors beat First Bancorp on 6 of the 6 factors.
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