Southern First Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ:SFST – Get Free Report) Director Leighton M. Cubbage sold 2,515 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, September 16th. The stock was sold at an average price of $33.29, for a total value of $83,724.35. Following the transaction, the director now directly owns 54,303 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,807,746.87. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink.
Southern First Bancshares Trading Up 0.1 %
Shares of Southern First Bancshares stock opened at $33.54 on Thursday. The company has a quick ratio of 1.09, a current ratio of 1.10 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.87. The firm has a market cap of $273.55 million, a PE ratio of 20.45 and a beta of 0.81. The business’s fifty day moving average is $32.50 and its two-hundred day moving average is $29.84. Southern First Bancshares, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $24.98 and a fifty-two week high of $39.36.
Southern First Bancshares (NASDAQ:SFST – Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July 18th. The bank reported $0.37 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.29 by $0.08. The company had revenue of $54.07 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $22.13 million. Southern First Bancshares had a net margin of 6.67% and a return on equity of 4.41%. Analysts anticipate that Southern First Bancshares, Inc. will post 1.39 earnings per share for the current year.
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Separately, StockNews.com raised shares of Southern First Bancshares from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday, July 19th.
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About Southern First Bancshares
Southern First Bancshares, Inc operates as the bank holding company for Southern First Bank that provides commercial, consumer, and mortgage loans to the general public in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. The company accepts various deposit products that include checking accounts, commercial checking accounts, and savings accounts, as well as other time deposits, including daily money market accounts and long-term certificates of deposit.
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