First Foundation Inc (NYSE:FFWM) price on Thursday, July 03, rose 1.27% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $5.6.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $5.53, moving within a range at $5.5 and $5.72. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.986. Turning to its 52-week performance, $8.52 and $4.41 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, FFWM moved 10.67% over the past month.
First Foundation Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $461.36 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Apr-30.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that FFWM is a 50% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a Hold as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in Hold category.
3 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 3 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 0 recommend FFWM as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Hold which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
FFWM’s current price about 6.67% and 7.37% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 63.59, while 7-day volatility ratio is 4.81% and 3.65% in the 30-day chart. Further, First Foundation Inc (FFWM) has a beta value of 1.00. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $7, forecast between a low of $7 and high of $7. Looking at the price targets, the low is -25.0% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -25.0%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -25.0% jump to $7 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on First Foundation Inc (NYSE:FFWM), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 0.86 over the past 10 days and 807.20K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 82.39 million shares.
The 13.43% of First Foundation Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 74.59% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 3.46 million on 2025-06-13, giving us a short ratio of 6.26. The data shows that as of 2025-06-13 short interest in First Foundation Inc (FFWM) stood at 463.99999999999994 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 3.22 million registered in 2025-05-15. Current price change has pushed the stock -13.45% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the FFWM stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
