Ratings The First Bancshares, Inc.

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FBMS

US3189161033

Market Closed - Nasdaq Other stock markets 16:30:01 2024-05-03 EDT			5-day change	1st Jan Change
24.77 ^USD	+1.18%		+3.64%	-15.55%

04-26	Business First Bancshares to Purchase Oakwood Bancshares in $85.7 Million All-Stock Deal	MT
04-25	Earnings Flash (BFST) BUSINESS FIRST BANCSHARES Posts Q1 EPS $0.48, vs. Street Est of $0.57	MT

Strengths

The group's activity appears highly profitable thanks to its outperforming net margins.
With a P/E ratio at 10.54 for the current year and 9.29 for next year, earnings multiples are highly attractive compared with competitors.
The company's share price in relation to its net book value makes it look relatively cheap.
The difference between current prices and the average target price is rather important and implies a significant appreciation potential for the stock.
There is high visibility into the group's activities for the coming years. Outlooks on future revenues from analysts covering the equity remain similar. Such hardly dispersed estimates support highly predictable sales for the current and upcoming fiscal years.
The divergence of price targets given by the various analysts who make up the consensus is relatively low, suggesting a consensus method of evaluating the company and its prospects.

Weaknesses

As estimated by analysts, this group is among those businesses with the lowest growth prospects.
The potential for earnings per share (EPS) growth in the coming years appears limited according to current analyst estimates.
For the last twelve months, sales expectations have been significantly downgraded, which means that less important sales volumes are expected for the current fiscal year over the previous period.
For the last four months, the sales outlook for the coming years has been revised downwards. No recovery of the group's activities is yet foreseen.
For the last 12 months, analysts have been regularly downgrading their EPS expectations. Analysts predict worse results for the company against their predictions a year ago.
The average consensus view of analysts covering the stock has deteriorated over the past four months.
The company's earnings releases usually do not meet expectations.

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Sector: Banks

	1st Jan change	Capi.	ESG Refinitiv
THE FIRST BANCSHARES, INC.	-15.55%	781M	C-
JPMORGAN CHASE & CO.	+12.00%	547B	C+
BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION	+10.60%	291B	C+
INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED	+12.04%	250B	C+
WELLS FARGO & COMPANY	+21.78%	209B	C
BANK OF CHINA LIMITED	+17.11%	171B	B-
CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK CORPORATION	+11.40%	169B	B-
HSBC HOLDINGS PLC	+11.01%	164B	C+
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA	+3.27%	143B	B-
HDFC BANK LIMITED	-11.10%	139B	B-

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