An analyst sees good growth prospects for Capital One Financial Corp. (COF)

With 2.74 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 2.25 million shares. During the session, the Credit Services company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $156.995 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $153.0. The 52-week range on COF shows that it touched its highest point at $160.45 and its lowest point at $88.23 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $165.00. With its current market cap of 58.90 billion, COF has annualized dividend of $2.40 while the current yield stands at 1.56%. COF paid its most recent dividend on 1723420800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1723420800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.45.

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Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of COF was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.42%, but this was up by 4.68% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 4.16% while six-month performance rose 3.61%. The stock gained 70.67% in the past year, while it has gained 17.64% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for COF yields 10.63 with Next year EPS estimates of 15.21. For the next quarter, that number is 3.77. This implies an EPS growth rate of 3.37% for this year and 17.55% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 49.65% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 0.22%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 380.39 million COF shares are outstanding with a float of 376.75 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-09-30, short shares totaled 9.86 million, which was 257.99999 higher than short shares on 1724976000. In addition to Mr. Richard D. Fairbank as the firm’s Founder, Chairman, CEO & President, Mr. Andrew M. Young serves as its Chief Financial Officer.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.89724 of COF’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.