QualityDipStocks / Finance · Major Banks
First Hawaiian FHB
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 15% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, trading near our fair value estimate.
- Fair value est.
- $24.31−5%
- Market Value
- $25.41price +1%
- Off 52-wk high
- −15%
- Risk vs market
- Lowbeta 0.56
4 bullish · 4 bearish See why
Repriced or dip?
Dip: business intact
The price is 15% below its 52-week high (Jul 6), but the business held up: shares outstanding fewer shares, each owns more, revenue +2.0%.
Some numbers held up (shares outstanding fewer shares, each owns more, revenue +2.0%), others slipped. The price is 15% below its 52-week high.
The price is 15% below its 52-week high, and the business changed too.
Within 10% of its 52-week high, so there is no dip to judge yet.
The evidence 7 numbers, high vs now
- Revenue, last 12 months$890M → $908M (+2.0%)held up
- Revenue growth rate+9.4% → +7.7% a year (−1.7 pts)about the same
- Earnings per share, 12 months$2.31 → $2.26 (−2.2%)about the same
- Shares outstanding−1.3% (fewer shares, each owns more)held up
- Stock vs its sector (Finance)stock −15%, sector median −2% since Jul 6about the same
- Price fall vs business numbersprice −15%, revenue/EPS/FCF median 0% (shown, not scored)
- Valuation multipleP/E 13.1× at the high → 11.4× now (shown, not scored)
Business numbers as reported at the high (12 months to Mar 31, 2026) vs the latest filing (12 months to Sep 30, 2026). Each measure is scored from −1 (business changed) to +1 (business intact) and weighted: revenue, earnings per share, free cash flow, operating margin, revenue growth rate, share count, net cash and the move vs its sector. 60 or more reads as a dip, 40 or less as a repricing. Analyst estimates are not in our data, so they are not used. How to read it
Data-based read, not advice.
Priced in
How much growth the market assumed at the 52-week high, the low and today (a reverse DCF).
52-wk high: P/E 13.1×; 52-wk low: P/E 11.3×; now: P/E 11.4×.
| High | Low | Now | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $30.34Jul 6 | $23.39Nov 17 | $25.71 |
| P/E | 13.1× | 11.3× | 11.4× |
What this means: a lower P/E than at the high means you pay less for each dollar of profit than buyers did then.
How it’s computed
Banks, insurers and lenders: cash flow includes deposits and loans, so a cash-flow model doesn't fit; we show P/E at each point instead. P/E = that day's close × diluted shares / 12-month net income, using only the filings that were public on that day.
Valuation
What we estimate it's worth, and how it ranks on value vs every stock we cover.
Fair value estimate
How the range is computed
Financials model (residual income). Same residual-income model as the base: cost of equity 9.5% ±1 point and return on equity 8.7% ±2 points. Bear = 10.5% and 6.7%; bull = 8.5% and 10.7%. A model estimate from public filings, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Price sits inside the range.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, FHB would need a return on equity of about 9% a year; our estimate uses 9%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 31 to Nov 2, 252 sessions). Beta = how much FHB moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Moves much less than the market, but its own price swings are 1.8× the S&P 500’s (it moves on its own news).
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 0.56
- Volatility
- 23% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.32
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.16
How it ranks
Where FHB stands vs every one of the 1,996 stocks we cover that has the number. Longer bar = better.
Top quarter on 1 of 3 measures
- Discount to fair value estimate5% · price above our base caseTop 49%of 1,314
- Dividends + buybacks yield6% · cash paid out or used to retire shares, vs market capTop 20%of 1,836
- Revenue growth, last 12 months+7.7% · vs the 12 months beforeLowest 41%of 1,814
From SEC filings and our fair value estimate model. A ranking, not advice.
Valuation details
DCF $24.31 · MV $25.41
Financials model (residual income): book value $26.47 a share on Sep 30, 2026, plus the earnings above a 9.5% cost of equity. ROE 8.7%, the average of 8.7% for the trailing 12 months to Sep 30, 2026 and 8.7% over fiscal 2021–2025, on average common equity; payout 62% of earnings (dividends 47% + net buybacks 15%), so book grows by the retained rest; the return above 9.5% fades halfway toward 9.5% over 10 years, then grows at 3% (terminal value). From the 10-Q filed Nov 2, 2026.
Fundamentals
The business itself: sales, profits, cash and debt, from SEC filings.
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 4 of 5
Cash returnsDividend yield of 4.1% ($129M paid over 12 months, 47% of earnings).
GrowthDiluted EPS grew 23% to $2.20 in FY2025.
ValuationPrice / book of 1.1×, below the 1.7× median for the 296 Finance companies we cover.
ProfitabilityNet margin of 30%, above the 22% median for the 281 Finance companies we cover.
Top bearish points 4 of 5
GrowthSales grew 3.6% a year over the last three fiscal years, below the 9.2% median for the 286 Finance companies we cover.
GrowthSales grew 7.7% over the last 12 months, below the 12% median for the 284 Finance companies we cover.
ProfitabilityReturn on equity of 9.9%, below the 12% median for the 291 Finance companies we cover.
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: sales down vs the year-ago quarter.
All fundamentals
P/E 11.4 · ROE 10% · Sales +8%
Valuation
- P/E
- 11.4×Finance median 13.6×
- Price / FCF
- n/acash flow isn't a clean measure for a bank
- FCF yield
- n/acash flow isn't a clean measure for a bank
- EV / EBITDA
- n/anot meaningful for a bank
- Price / sales
- 3.45×
- Price / book
- 1.11×
- Market cap
- $3.1Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $908Mnet interest income + noninterest income
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +7.7%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- +3.6%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $2.23
- EPS growth, last FY
- +22.9%
- Net income, 12 months
- $275M
- Net income growth
- +6%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- n/anot meaningful for a bank
- Operating margin
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Net margin
- 30.3%
- FCF margin
- 40.2%
- Return on equity
- 10%
- Return on invested capital
- n/anot meaningful for a bank
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $1.3B
- Total debt
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Net cash
- n/anot meaningful for a bank
- Debt / equity
- n/adeposits/float make debt/equity not comparable for a bank
- Interest coverage
- n/anot meaningful for a bank
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $365M
- FCF growth, 12 months
- +19%
- Dividend yield
- 4.11%$129M paid
- Payout ratio
- 47%
- Buybacks, 12 months
- $58M1.9% of market cap
- Share count, 1 year
- −2.0%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- $16M
Trailing 12 months to Sep 30, 2026; balance sheet at Sep 30, 2026. From First Hawaiian’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
The business
FCF $0.4B · Sales −5%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$0.4B
- Free-cash-flow yield11.6%
- Return on equity10%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)−5%
Chart & levels
Where the price is vs its key levels and trends.
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $25.71
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$23.39−9.0%
- Fair value est.base case$24.31−5.4%
- Market Valueavg paid since Oct 23$25.41−1.2%
- PriceMon Nov 2 close$25.71you are here
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$30.34+18.0%
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 55 · 5 days +1.5%
Signals
Reversal signal setups, the public ledger and the next earnings date.
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
FHB is outside our quality screen
One text when a published rule fires on one of the 332 quality companies we track: the ticker, the price, the stop and a link to the numbers. Nothing else.
Voices & buzz
Who is talking about it, and how it compares with peers.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on First Hawaiian in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 3, 1:01 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Major Banks
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.