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First Bank's CEO Adam Currie Elected Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
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First Bancorp Announces Retirement of Director
PRNewswire (Tue, 27-Jan 4:05 PM ET)
First Bancorp Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results
PRNewswire (Wed, 21-Jan 4:05 PM ET)
First Bancorp Announces Cash Dividend
PRNewswire (Fri, 12-Dec 9:20 AM ET)
First Bancorp is a bank holding company. The company is engaged in providing commercial and consumer banking services, mortgage lending, SBA lending, accounts receivable financing and investment advisory services.
First Bancorp trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol FBNC.
As of February 26, 2026, FBNC stock price declined to $60.18 with 152,299 million shares trading.
FBNC has a beta of 0.89, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. FBNC has a correlation of 0.31 to the broad based SPY ETF.
FBNC has a market cap of $2.50 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.
Last quarter First Bancorp reported $84 million in Revenue and $1.19 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-38 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.15.
In the last 3 years, FBNC traded as high as $62.64 and as low as $26.00.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that FBNC belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, VTI, IWM, VXF, SPSM.
FBNC has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +48.7%, while the SPY ETF gained +17.2%. In the last 3 month period, FBNC beat the market returning +17.2%, while SPY returned +2.4%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks FBNC has underperformed the stock market by returning -0.6%, while SPY returned -0.4%.
FBNC support price is $59.05 and resistance is $61.37 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that FBNC shares will trade within this expected range on the day.