FIRST CITIZENS BANCSHARES INC /DE/ is a bank, scored by a separate financial-sector model — not the operating Moat Score you’ll see on other companies. A bank or insurer is a balance-sheet business the margin-and-ROIC lens doesn’t fit, so it’s read through the components below instead. The two models are calibrated differently and are not comparable: a financial-sector score is never ranked against, sorted with, or averaged into an operating Moat Score. How the models work.
Insider activity
Form 4 reports mix P/S market or private transactions with compensation-plan mechanics. Activity casually described as “insider selling” can include compensation mechanics; awards, tax withholding, and option exercises are shown by their exact filed class here, never collapsed into “Bought” or “Sold.”
These are disclosed filing facts and arithmetic aggregates, not a signal or verdict.
The insider-filing service is temporarily unavailable, so no partial or guessed answer is shown for FCNCA.
Flagship explainer
How FIRST CITIZENS BANCSHARES INC /DE/ earns its spread
Start with net interest income, then follow the filed path to net income.
· event Dec 31, 2025 · retrieved Aug 3, 2026 · annual-row source set
Flagship explainer
Where FIRST CITIZENS BANCSHARES INC /DE/'s cash went
FIRST CITIZENS BANCSHARES INC /DE/’s filing does not supply enough provenance-matched cash-flow lines for a truthful flow chart — here’s what is filed:
Position size uses shares and filed value from each manager’s 13F. Portfolio weight uses the eligible long-share filing denominator. Changes compare only with the immediately preceding calendar quarter.
What FIRST CITIZENS BANCSHARES INC /DE/ insiders reported
We could not retrieve insider activity for this rendering; no zero-activity claim is shown.
Unavailable: Form 4 activity could not be retrieved for this rendering.
What the financial-sector model scores (bank)
82
Median ROE 12.6% on average equity, above the 10% hurdle in 89% of 9 years.
73
Q3 scored 3 evidenced ratios equally; reserve score is unadjusted for Q4 and capped at 70.
60
Profitable in 100% of 10 years, ROE volatile.
83
Net interest income is 3.27% of average assets, steady over 9 years through FY2025.
Not scored for this company
Canonical split-adjusted share history is incomplete; no book-value trend claim is made.
Underwriting applies to insurance carriers; not part of the bank model.
Scored 4 of 5 applicable components (bank model); weights renormalized over the scored set.
Fundamentals
The 15-year revenue, margin, and ROIC series is built for the operating model’s lens and isn’t published for banks and insurers — a balance-sheet business is read through the components above, not through operating-company margins.
Financial-sector score history
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Reading
Aug 3, 2026
76
Jul 26, 2026
80
Jul 26, 2026
80
Append-only — readings are added, never rewritten. Only readings on the same methodology version (moat-index-financials@1.0.0) are comparable; a change across versions is a scoring change, not a company event.
Scored from primary SEC filings via the public financial-sector methodology. Educational only — not a recommendation to buy or sell FCNCA. See the disclaimer.