First Financial Bancorp expected to post earnings of 48  cents a share - Earnings Preview

First Financial Bancorp.

20/04/2021 21:51

* First Financial Bancorp  FFBC.OQ   FFBC.O  is expected to show
a rise in quarterly revenue when it reports results on April 22.
* The Cincinnati, Ohio-based company is expected to report  a
3.9% increase in revenue to $157.26 million from $151.29 million
a year ago, according to the mean estimate from 5 analysts,
based on Refinitiv data.​​
​* Refinitiv's mean analyst estimate for First Financial Bancorp
is for earnings of 48 cents per share. For the same quarter last
year, the company reported earnings of 31 cents per share.
* The current average analyst rating on the shares is "hold" and
the breakdown of recommendations is no "strong buy" or "buy," 6
"hold" and no "sell" or "strong sell." 
* The mean earnings estimate of analysts was unchanged in the
last three months.​
* Wall Street's median 12-month price target for First Financial
Bancorp is $25​, about 2.8% above​ its last closing price
of $24.29. ​​​
* Previous quarterly performance (using preferred earnings
measure in US dollars). ​
 QUARTER       STARMINE    REFINITIV  ACTUAL    BEAT,   SURPRI
 ENDING        SMARTESTIM  IBES                 MET,    SE %
               ATE®        ESTIMATE             MISSED  
 Dec. 31 2020  0.46        0.46       0.51      Beat    10.4
 Sep. 30 2020  0.38        0.38       0.44      Beat    15.3
 Jun. 30 2020  0.25        0.25       0.40      Beat    62.2​
 Mar. 31 2020  0.38        0.39       0.31      Missed  -20.2
 Dec.          0.53​       0.53       0.52      Missed  -1.1​
 31​ 2019​                                              
 Sep. 30 2019  0.55        0.55       0.56      Beat    2.7​
 Jun. 30 2019  0.57        0.57       0.58      Beat    2.3
 Mar. 31 2019  0.48        0.51       0.48      Missed  -5.1
 This summary was machine generated April 20 at 20:51 GMT.  All
figures in US dollars unless otherwise stated