With 2.46 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 2.83 million shares. During the session, the Credit Services company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $185.39 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $180.62. The 52-week range on COF shows that it touched its highest point at $198.30 and its lowest point at $123.23 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $199.11. With its current market cap of 69.39 billion, COF has annualized dividend of $2.40 while the current yield stands at 1.32%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.46.
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 up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 2.23%, but this was down by -1.98% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 19.66% while six-month performance rose 32.78%. The stock gained 37.36% in the past year, while it has gained 2.00% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for COF yields 10.59 with Next year EPS estimates of 15.31. For the next quarter, that number is 2.89. This implies an EPS growth rate of 9.19% for this year and 11.98% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 13.26% 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, 381.51 million COF shares are outstanding with a float of 376.47 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 15.6 million, which was 409.00003 higher than short shares on 1731628800. 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 0.90333 of COF’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 COF since 12 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 5 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 6 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 COF analysts setting a high price target of 232.0 and a low target of 119.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 198.42737. Based on these targets, COF could surge 27.55% to reach the target high and fall by -34.58% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 9.09% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $14.16844 being high and $13.02534 being low. For COF, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $13.62697.
