FFBC Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (First Financial Bancorp. | NASDAQ:FFBC)

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 non-interest-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.

First Financial Bancorp. trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol FFBC.

As of February 23, 2026, FFBC stock price declined to $28.93 with 284,703 million shares trading.

FFBC has a beta of 0.86, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. FFBC has a correlation of 0.31 to the broad based SPY ETF.

FFBC has a market cap of $3.02 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter First Financial Bancorp. reported $239 million in Revenue and $.80 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-10 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.02.

In the last 3 years, FFBC traded as high as $31.38 and as low as $17.23.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that FFBC belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, VTI, IWM, VB, AIRR.

FFBC has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +8.7% while the SPY ETF gained +13.2%. However, in the short term, FFBC had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +23.2% vs +5.1% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, FFBC shares have been beat by the market, returning -6.4% compared to an SPY return of -1.0%.

FFBC support price is $29.75 and resistance is $30.97 (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 FFBC shares will trade within this expected range on the day.