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 April 2, 2026, FFBC stock price climbed to $28.08 with 641,227 million shares trading.

FFBC has a beta of 0.80, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. FFBC has a correlation of 0.26 to the broad based SPY ETF.

FFBC has a market cap of $2.93 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 return of +17.1%, while SPY returned +18.2%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in FFBC shares. However, FFBC has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +13.2% and +6.0%, while SPY returned -3.6% and -0.6%, respectively. This indicates FFBC has been having a stronger performance recently.

FFBC support price is $27.49 and resistance is $28.63 (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.