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NASDAQ NMS - GLOBAL MARKET · Banking · CIK 0000708955
$32.47
+2.59% · live
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$3.10B market value
From FIRST FINANCIAL BANCORP /OH/'s FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026 · read the filing
FIRST FINANCIAL BANCORP /OH/ takes deposits and lends money.
The financial picture is led by profitability, with debt worth watching.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Financial health
Strong finances across the board.
From FIRST FINANCIAL BANCORP /OH/'s FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Long-term debt
$347.5M → $514.1M
Free cash flow
$241.1M → $317.1M
Profit
$228.8M → $255.6M
Earnings per share
$2.41 → $2.68
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 19, 2026
Deteriorated: +47.9%
$347.5M to $514.1MCritical
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
How the latest move compares (quote live), and what was published around it
FFBC rose 2.59% on the latest quote. The average Financials company tracked here moved +1.11%, and the S&P 500 −0.43%. That is 1.5 points above its sector and 3.0 points above the market.
These coincide with the move in time. None is presented as its cause: a price can move on news that names no company, on the wider market, or on trading that no document records.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 7.3% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It earned $255.6M last year.
Not enough history has been reported to judge growth.
For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.15 in assets. Banks and insurers always carry high debt — that is how lending works — so this is normal for the industry and not comparable with other sectors.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 37 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 28% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
GoodNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $255.6M and generated $337.9M of cash from operations.
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 19, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 20, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 22, 2024Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 24, 2023Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 24, 2023Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interest expense | — | — | $275.2M | $65.9M | $31.1M | — |
| Income before tax | $321.3M | $268.3M | $318.6M | $241.7M | $240.9M | +19.7% |
| Net income | $255.6M | $228.8M | $255.9M | $217.6M | $205.2M | +11.7% |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $2.68 | $2.41 | $2.70 | $2.31 | $2.11 | +11.3% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Was granted or awarded shares — 518 shares at $31.32 ($16.2K)
Holds 14,049 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 259 shares at $31.32 ($8.1K)
Holds 5,624 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Had a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Shares in issue +9.6% · Profit +9.2% · Long-term debt +10.9% — against Q2 FY2025
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 34 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 5 places. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from FFBC's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 19, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
2 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Growth and Accounting had too few reported figures and are left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 6 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 8.0 | 5/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 8.0 | 5/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 20, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 8.0 | 6/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 22, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 8.0 | 5/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 8.0 | 6/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 8.0 | 3/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
5 of 6 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. 3 could not be evaluated and are excluded from the total rather than counted as failures.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Improved: +31.5%
$241.1M to $317.1MSignificant
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Improved: +11.7%
$228.8M to $255.6MNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +11.3%
$2.41 to $2.68Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Changed: +5.7%
$89.5M to $94.6MNotable
Why it matters: Cash handed to shareholders. A rise can be a higher dividend or simply more shares, and a cut is a decision the company explains in its own filing — neither is rated here.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Aug 6, 2026 — read it.
Deteriorated: +9.6%
94.9M to 103.9MSignificant
Why it matters: New shares divide the same company into more pieces, so each existing holding owns slightly less of it. Often pay for staff or an acquisition rather than anything wrong.
Improved: +9.2%
$70.0M to $76.5MNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: +10.9%
$345.0M to $382.6MNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Aug 6, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Improved: +20.9%
$170.6M to $206.4MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
3 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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The trailing P/E is 10.6x — investors pay $10.6 for each $1 of trailing profit.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Reported annual figures
Was granted or awarded shares — 518 shares at $31.32 ($16.2K)
Holds 18,005 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 518 shares at $31.32 ($16.2K)
Holds 72,402 shares after this filing.
Gifted shares — 261 shares
Holds 60,595 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 7,636 shares at $32.74 ($250.0K)
Holds 60,856 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 5,000 shares ($164.6K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Units.
Filed notice to sell 2,700 shares ($92.2K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Vest.
Filed notice to sell 4,000 shares ($135.1K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Vest.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Signed a material agreement · Published results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Held a shareholder vote
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Profit +45.1% · Free cash flow +922.5% · Capital spending +259.7% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results · Reported another event
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Long-term debt +47.9% · Free cash flow +31.5% · Profit +11.7% — against FY2024
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingCompleted an acquisition or disposal · Reported another event
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation · Reported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Profit +37.1% · Earnings per share +36.5% · Long-term debt -35.5% — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingSold shares outside a public offering · Made a Regulation FD disclosure · Reported another event
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingSource: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-02-19. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
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