First Hawaiian Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:FHB)

4 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for First Hawaiian in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating and 3 hold ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "reduce" FHB shares.
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4 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for First Hawaiian's shares. Their FHB share price targets range from $17.00 to $26.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $21.20 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 3.8% from the stock's current price.
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First Hawaiian's stock was trading at $26.04 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, FHB shares have decreased by 21.5% and is now trading at $20.43.
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First Hawaiian saw a decline in short interest during the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 4,860,000 shares, a decline of 6.4% from the October 31st total of 5,190,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 853,900 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 5.7 days. Currently, 3.8% of the company's stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, January 26th 2024.
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First Hawaiian, Inc. (NASDAQ:FHB) released its quarterly earnings data on Friday, October, 27th. The bank reported $0.46 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.44 by $0.02. The bank had revenue of $285.90 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $199.36 million. First Hawaiian had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.48% and a net margin of 24.88%. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.54 earnings per share.

First Hawaiian announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 18th. Investors of record on Monday, November 20th will be given a dividend of $0.26 per share on Friday, December 1st. This represents a $1.04 annualized dividend and a yield of 5.09%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, November 17th.
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First Hawaiian (NASDAQ:FHB) pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 5.29%. FHB has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The dividend payout ratio is 49.76%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, FHB will have a dividend payout ratio of 60.47% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of First Hawaiian (NASDAQ:FHB) stock in their portfolio include iShares Focused Value Factor ETF (FOVL), Invesco KBW Regional Banking ETF (KBWR), First Trust NASDAQ ABA Community Bank Index Fund (QABA), Invesco S&P SmallCap Financials ETF (PSCF), First Trust Financial AlphaDEX Fund (FXO), VictoryShares US Small Cap High Div Volatility Wtd ETF (CSB), SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF (KRE) and Harbor Small Cap Explorer ETF (QWST).

90 employees have rated First Hawaiian Chief Executive Officer Robert S. Harrison on Glassdoor.com. Robert S. Harrison has an approval rating of 95% among the company's employees. This puts Robert S. Harrison in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 60.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at First Hawaiian to a friend.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other First Hawaiian investors own include Comerica (CMA), Honda Motor (HMC), General Mills (GIS), AT&T (T), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Albemarle (ALB), Boeing (BA), General Electric (GE), General Motors (GM) and Landec (LNDC).

(FHB) raised $464 million in an IPO on Thursday, August 4th 2016. The company issued 21,100,000 shares at $21.00-$23.00 per share. Goldman Sachs, BofA Merrill Lynch, BNP PARIBAS, Barclays, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank Securities, J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and UBS Investment Bank acted as the underwriters for the IPO and BBVA, COMMERZBANK, HSBC, ING, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (A Stifel Company), Banco Santander and Wells Fargo Securities were co-managers.

First Hawaiian's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management LLC (10.46%), The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company (8.11%), Fuller & Thaler Asset Management Inc. (5.24%), American Century Companies Inc. (4.19%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (3.05%) and FMR LLC (1.88%). Insiders that own company stock include Ravi Mallela and Robert S Harrison.
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Shares of FHB stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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