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

1 Wall Street 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 analysts is that investors should "sell" FCBC shares.
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1 Wall Street research analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for First Community Bankshares' shares. Their FCBC share price targets range from $33.00 to $33.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $33.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 1.2% from the stock's current price.
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First Community Bankshares' stock was trading at $37.10 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, FCBC stock has decreased by 12.1% and is now trading at $32.62.
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First Community Bankshares saw a decline in short interest in March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 157,500 shares, a decline of 12.8% from the March 15th total of 180,700 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 32,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.9 days. Currently, 1.0% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, July 23rd 2024.
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First Community Bankshares, Inc. (NASDAQ:FCBC) announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, January, 24th. The bank reported $0.78 earnings per share for the quarter, hitting the consensus estimate of $0.78. The bank earned $40.17 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $38.70 million. First Community Bankshares had a net margin of 27.50% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.20%.

First Community Bankshares announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, January 23rd. Stockholders of record on Friday, February 9th will be paid a dividend of $0.29 per share on Friday, February 23rd. This represents a $1.16 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.56%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, February 8th.
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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 3.54%. The dividend payout ratio is 42.65%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, FCBC will have a dividend payout ratio of 50.88% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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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 retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.06%) and Mather Group LLC. (0.02%). Insiders that own company stock include David D Brown, Harriet B Price, Richard Scott Johnson and Samuel L Elmore.
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