First Hawaiian - FHB Stock Forecast, Price & News

3 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for First Hawaiian in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 hold ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" FHB shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in FHB, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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3 equities research analysts have issued 12 month price targets for First Hawaiian's stock. Their FHB share price forecasts range from $26.00 to $34.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $28.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 4.7% from the stock's current price.
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First Hawaiian's stock was trading at $26.04 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, FHB stock has increased by 2.7% and is now trading at $26.75.
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First Hawaiian saw a decrease in short interest in January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,500,000 shares, a decrease of 6.9% from the December 31st total of 3,760,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 512,200 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 6.8 days. Currently, 2.8% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, April 28th 2023.
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First Hawaiian, Inc. (NASDAQ:FHB) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October, 21st. The bank reported $0.50 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.48 by $0.02. The bank had revenue of $182.70 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $132.45 million. First Hawaiian had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.80% and a net margin of 31.53%. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.50 EPS.

First Hawaiian announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, January 25th. Stockholders of record on Friday, February 17th will be paid a dividend of $0.26 per share on Friday, March 3rd. This represents a $1.04 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.89%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, February 16th.
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First Hawaiian (NASDAQ:FHB) pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.89%. The dividend payout ratio is 55.03%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, FHB will have a dividend payout ratio of 46.22% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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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.

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(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 served 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 trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "FHB."

First Hawaiian's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Yacktman Asset Management LP (1.49%), Reinhart Partners Inc. (1.18%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.98%), Villere ST Denis J & Co. LLC (0.72%), Boston Trust Walden Corp (0.50%) and Ceredex Value Advisors LLC (0.42%). Insiders that own company stock include Mitchell Nishimoto, Ravi Mallela and Vanessa L Washington.
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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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One share of FHB stock can currently be purchased for approximately $26.75.

First Hawaiian (NASDAQ:FHB) has a market capitalization of $3.42 billion and generates $842.74 million in revenue each year. The bank earns $265.68 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.89 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 2,000 workers across the globe.

First Hawaiian's mailing address is 999 BISHOP STREET, HONOLULU HI, 96813. The official website for the company is www.fhb.com. The bank can be reached via phone at (808) 525-7000 or via email at ir@fhb.com.