First Bancorp

FBNC Financial Banks Regional

First Bancorp’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $549.3 million, up 2.26% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+28.8%
EPS
+154.0%
Free cash flow
+103.2%
Total debt
−19.1%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

64.95 1.05 −1.59%
Market cap
$2.7B
P/E
16.3×
Fwd P/E
13.5×
Dividend yield
1.46%
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
n/a
Beneish M
n/a
Dividend safety
n/a

First Bancorp (FBNC) Free cash flow margin

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First Bancorp's free cash flow margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 46.4%, up 8.8 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (37.5%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 9.85% (fiscal 2017) to 55.2% (fiscal 2022); the current reading is higher than 82% of that period. That is above the Banks Regional industry median of 18.0% and above the Financial sector median of 11.4%.

Free cash flow margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Free cash flow margin Change (points)
FY2025 37.5% 5.24
FY2024 32.3% 8.87
FY2023 23.4% (31.76)
FY2022 55.2% 14.74
FY2021 40.4% 25.97
FY2020 14.5% (1.52)
FY2019 16.0% 2.74
FY2018 13.3% 3.40
FY2017 9.85% (12.26)
FY2016 22.1% (0.92)

Against its own ten years

Low 9.85% High 55.2%
Ten-year median 23.0%
Current reading's percentile 82

Free cash flow margin against peers

What Free cash flow margin is

Free Cash Flow Margin tells an investor how much of each sale turns into cash the company keeps after paying for investment in its assets.

(Operating Cash Flow + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) + Intangible Assets Change (Net)) ÷ Revenue

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