First Foundation Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:FFWM)

3 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for First Foundation in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" FFWM shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in FFWM, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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3 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price targets for First Foundation's stock. Their FFWM share price targets range from $6.00 to $16.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $10.50 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 50.2% from the stock's current price.
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First Foundation's stock was trading at $14.33 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, FFWM stock has decreased by 51.2% and is now trading at $6.99.
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First Foundation saw a decrease in short interest in the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 4,250,000 shares, a decrease of 8.6% from the October 31st total of 4,650,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 687,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 6.2 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 25th 2024.
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First Foundation Inc. (NASDAQ:FFWM) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October, 26th. The bank reported $0.05 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.03 by $0.02. The bank earned $63.77 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $62.60 million. First Foundation had a negative net margin of 30.93% and a positive trailing twelve-month return on equity of 3.38%.

First Foundation announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 26th. Investors of record on Monday, November 6th will be paid a dividend of $0.01 per share on Thursday, November 16th. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.57%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, November 3rd.
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First Foundation (NASDAQ:FFWM) pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.60%.
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Royce Quant Small-Cap Quality Value ETF holds 21,136 shares of FFWM stock, representing 0.55% of its portfolio.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other First Foundation investors own include Block (SQ), Gilead Sciences (GILD), Wells Fargo & Company (WFC), AbbVie (ABBV), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Carnival Co. & (CCL), Enbridge (ENB), Ford Motor (F), General Electric (GE) and Huntington Bancshares (HBAN).

First Foundation's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc. (1.95%), Federated Hermes Inc. (1.32%), Northern Trust Corp (0.86%), Invesco Ltd. (0.82%), AQR Capital Management LLC (0.72%) and American Century Companies Inc. (0.72%). Insiders that own company stock include Amy Djou, Christopher M Naghibi, Diane M Rubin, Elizabeth A Pagliarini, John Hakopian, Max Briggs, Sandra I Coufal, Scott F Kavanaugh, Ulrich E Keller Jr and Ulrich E Keller, Jr.
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