First Citizens BancShares, Inc.

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First Citizens BancShares, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $14.5 billion, down 3.09% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue was flat, EPS grew 31.1%, free cash flow grew 28.7% and total debt fell 14.9%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Dividend growth for twenty-five consecutive years; insiders bought in the last twelve months.

2,123.74 26.54 +1.27%
Market cap
$23.3B
P/E
11.4×
Fwd P/E
11.8×
Dividend yield
0.40%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
n/a
Beneish M
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Dividend safety
n/a

First Citizens BancShares, Inc. (FCNCA) Piotroski F-score

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First Citizens BancShares, Inc.'s Piotroski F-score for fiscal 2025 is 6 out of 9: 6 of nine tests of profitability, leverage and efficiency passed, up from 5 in fiscal 2024.

Piotroski F-score, annual

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Period Piotroski F-score Change (points)
FY2025 6 1.00
FY2024 5 (1.00)
FY2023 6 0.00
FY2022 6 3.00
FY2021 3 (2.00)
FY2020 5 (2.00)
FY2019 7 (1.00)
FY2018 8 (1.00)
FY2017 9 3.00
FY2016 6 —

How fiscal 2025’s score is made up

Test This year Year before Result Points
Positive return on assets 0.95% 1.24% Pass 1
Positive operating cash flow 2.92b 2.99b Pass 1
Rising return on assets 0.95% 1.24% Fail 0
Cash flow above net income 774.00m 272.00m Pass 1
Falling long-term leverage 0.16 0.17 Pass 1
Rising current ratio 1.03 1.03 Fail 0
No new shares issued 13,002,500 14,341,900 Pass 1
Rising gross margin 65.78% 65.19% Pass 1
Rising asset turnover 0.06 0.07 Fail 0
Piotroski F-score Mixed 6

How the Piotroski F-score works

One point for each of nine tests, this fiscal year against the one before: positive return on assets, positive operating cash flow, rising return on assets, cash flow above net income, falling long-term leverage, a rising current ratio, no new shares issued, a rising gross margin and rising asset turnover. The ratios are the ones on this site, so each can be checked.

Joseph Piotroski (2000) called 8–9 high and 0–1 low; reading it in three bands is the common convention:

7–9Strong — most fundamentals improved
4–6Mixed
0–3Weak — most fundamentals deteriorated

Where this differs from the paper: return on assets is on average rather than beginning-of-year assets, and weighted basic shares stand in for shares issued. The score is shown only when all nine tests can be worked out, which takes three fiscal years; banks and insurers, which report no current assets or gross profit, have none.

Piotroski F-score against peers

What Piotroski F-score is

The Piotroski F-Score tells an investor how many signs of improving profitability, funding and efficiency a company shows against a year earlier.

One point for each of nine tests against a year earlier: positive return on assets, positive operating cash flow, rising return on assets, cash flow above net income, falling long-term leverage, rising current ratio, no new shares issued, rising gross margin, and rising asset turnover

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