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AI brief of an SEC Form 8-K · First Financial Bancorp (FFBC)

First Financial Bancorp Q1 2025 EPS $0.54, down from $0.68 in fourth quarter

Mixed Impact 3 of 5 earnings Written later

First Financial Bancorp reported first quarter 2025 net income of $51.3 million, or $0.54 per diluted share, compared with $64.9 million, or $0.68 per share, in the fourth quarter of 2024. The results include a $9.9 million loss on sales of investment securities, and adjusted diluted EPS was $0.63; the company's diluted EPS was $0.53 in the first quarter of 2024. Management said it expects the net interest margin to expand in the near term.

Key points

  • Net income of $51.3 million, or $0.54 per diluted share, versus $64.9 million, or $0.68, in Q4 2024
  • Adjusted diluted EPS of $0.63; noninterest income of $51.1 million includes a $9.9 million loss on investment securities sales
  • Net interest margin of 3.84% (3.88% fully tax-equivalent), a 6 basis point decline from Q4 2024
  • Conference call scheduled for Friday, April 25, 2025 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time

The filing

CompanyFirst Financial Bancorp (FFBC)
Form8-K, current report
Filed with the SECApr 24, 2025, 4:18 PM ET
Accession number0000708955-25-000025

Items reported: 2.02 Results of Operations

Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗

Written by AI (Anthropic Claude, claude-haiku-5-5) on Nov 8, 2026, 1:38 AM ET, from the text of the filing and its press-release exhibits only. Written later: this filing was briefed after the fact, when past filings were added to the site, so the brief may be read with hindsight; the filing itself is the record of what was known on April 24, 2025.

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