First Community Bankshares Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:FCBC)

1 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for First Community Bankshares in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "sell" FCBC shares.
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1 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price targets for First Community Bankshares' stock. Their FCBC share price targets range from $33.00 to $33.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $33.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 1.0% from the stock's current price.
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First Community Bankshares' stock was trading at $33.90 at the beginning of the year. Since then, FCBC stock has decreased by 3.7% and is now trading at $32.66.
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First Community Bankshares saw a increase in short interest during the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 186,300 shares, an increase of 13.4% from the October 31st total of 164,300 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 36,400 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 5.1 days. Approximately 1.2% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, January 23rd 2024.
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First Community Bankshares, Inc. (NASDAQ:FCBC) posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October, 24th. The bank reported $0.78 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.66 by $0.12. The bank earned $42.97 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $42.42 million. First Community Bankshares had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.30% and a net margin of 29.00%.

First Community Bankshares declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, October 24th. Shareholders of record on Friday, November 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.29 per share on Friday, November 24th. This represents a $1.16 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.55%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, November 9th.
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First Community Bankshares (NASDAQ:FCBC) pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.51%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 11 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 40.99%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, FCBC will have a dividend payout ratio of 49.57% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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SPDR SSGA US Small Cap Low Volatility Index ETF holds 23,535 shares of FCBC stock, representing 0.39% of its portfolio.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other First Community Bankshares investors own include First Community (FCCO), Altria Group (MO), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Energy Transfer (ET), AT&T (T), Dominion Energy (D), Gilead Sciences (GILD), Marathon Petroleum (MPC), Pfizer (PFE) and Ventas (VTR).

First Community Bankshares' stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Northern Trust Corp (1.05%), Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (0.71%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.67%), Swiss National Bank (0.20%), Summit Financial Group Inc. (0.20%) and Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.18%). Insiders that own company stock include David D Brown, Harriet B Price, Richard Scott Johnson and Samuel L Elmore.
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