Are Smart Investors Making the Right Decision? Citizens Financial Group Inc (CFG)

With 2.78 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 4.24 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $45.49 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $44.31. The 52-week range on CFG shows that it touched its highest point at $49.25 and its lowest point at $30.24 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $51.87. With its current market cap of 19.70 billion, CFG has annualized dividend of $1.68 while the current yield stands at 3.76%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.34.

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 CFG was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 2.62%, but this was down by -4.43% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 8.57% while six-month performance rose 23.14%. The stock gained 33.95% in the past year, while it has gained 2.15% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for CFG yields 2.54 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.82. For the next quarter, that number is 0.82. This implies an EPS growth rate of -3.47% for this year and 26.33% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 8.21% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -2.34%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 445.22 million CFG shares are outstanding with a float of 436.91 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 10.57 million, which was 240.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Bruce Winfield Van Saun as the firm’s CEO & Chairman of the Board, Mr. John F. Woods serves as its Vice Chairman & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.97998 of CFG’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for CFG since 9 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 6 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 3 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With CFG analysts setting a high price target of 58.0 and a low target of 42.6, the average target price over the next 12 months is 51.405. Based on these targets, CFG could surge 29.75% to reach the target high and fall by -4.7% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 15.0% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $3.06126 being high and $2.99553 being low. For CFG, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.0237. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.88 and the low estimate is $0.64. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.76.