First Financial: An Under-The-Radar Value Pick
2025-04-05 04:33:59 ET
Summary
- A small regional bank operating off the beaten track, First Financial Corporation is unlikely to be on the average investor's radar.
- This bank appears to have a nice funding cost advantage, and its underwriting performance during the last financial crisis was excellent too.
- These shares trade for less than 8x consensus 2025 EPS. While there's plenty of economic uncertainty right now, the valuation would be the same based on the bank's historical ROA.
Like I said in my last piece, I've been using "years of consecutive dividend growth" as a kind of proxy for safety in my ongoing search for high quality bank stocks. Today, that search has brought me to Terre Haute, Indiana, which is the home of First Financial Corporation (THFF)....
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