First Financial Bancorp.
NASDAQFirst Financial Bancorp. walked into its Q2 print with one of the more unusual positioning splits in regional banking: short sellers at their heaviest in months, options traders as bullish as they've been all year. The Q2 earnings event landed on July 22–23. The short interest build described in the prior earnings preview has not unwound. At 5.3% of the free float — up roughly 44%…
FFBC short interest surges 23% in one week to 4.2% of float, highest weekly build in recent history amid stock rally.
Snapshot as of 6 Aug 2026
First Financial Bancorp. walked into its Q2 print with one of the more unusual positioning splits in regional banking: short sellers at their heaviest in months, options traders as bullish as they've been all year. The…
First Financial Bancorp. reports Q2 results today with short sellers notably more active than they were a month ago — even as the stock has been climbing. Short interest has risen sharply heading into the print. It now…
First Financial Bancorp. enters July with an unusual tension: the stock has climbed 10% over the past month to $33.83, yet short interest has jumped 18% in a single week to 4.2% of the free float — the fastest weekly…
First Financial Bancorp. delivered a clean Q1 print that lifted the stock nearly 5% on April 23. The week since has been a study in retreating momentum: the stock gave back almost 3% on Wednesday alone, trimming the…
Short interest in FFBC has fallen 7% over the past week to 3.95% of float, while cost to borrow dropped 26%. Borrowing costs have eased to just 0.37%, signaling reduced pressure heading into today's earnings. Short…
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