First Bancorp is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, First Bank, Co. is engaged in a range of banking activities. Co. provides deposit products such as checking, savings, and money market accounts, as well as time deposits, including various types of certificates of deposits and individual retirement accounts. Co. provides loans for a range of consumer and commercial purposes, including loans for business, real estate, personal uses, home improvement, and automobiles. Co. provides residential mortgages through its Mortgage Banking Division, and Co. provides Small Business Administration (SBA) loans to small business owners across the nation through its SBA Lending Division. The FBNC YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the FBNC YTD return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the total return for a given investment year-to-date for the current calendar year
(up to the end of prior trading session). Arguably, choosing the current calendar year for a measurement
period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand a year-to-date look can be extremely
useful in the context of our country's tax system which taxes gains and income on a calendar year basis.
Thus, researching Year-To-Date Returns is good practice for investors — whether FBNC YTD return or other benchmarks/peers
— and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's YTD return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors
by performing the FBNC YTD return calculation (with any dividends reinvested as applicable), and to provide a
coverage universe of many stocks and ETFs to be able to compare YTD returns.
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