With 1.47 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.72 million shares. During the session, the Credit Services company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $164.74 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $157.37. The 52-week range on DFS shows that it touched its highest point at $205.76 and its lowest point at $119.31 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $213.69. With its current market cap of 40.06 billion, DFS has annualized dividend of $2.80 while the current yield stands at 1.76%. DFS paid its most recent dividend on 1740009600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1740009600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.21.
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 DFS was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -7.78%, but this was down by -18.25% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -9.92% while six-month performance rose 22.17%. The stock gained 30.60% in the past year, while it has lost -8.08% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for DFS yields 15.56 with Next year EPS estimates of 15.88. For the next quarter, that number is 3.37. This implies an EPS growth rate of -21.81% for this year and 14.59% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 0.73% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 14.28%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 251.34 million DFS shares are outstanding with a float of 250.16 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-02-28, short shares totaled 5.3 million, which was 211.0 higher than short shares on 1738281600. In addition to Mr. Daniel Peter Capozzi as the firm’s Executive VP & President of Consumer Banking, Mr. Keith E. Toney serves as its Executive VP and President of Credit & Decision Management.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.84936994 of DFS’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 DFS since 12 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 7 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 5 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 DFS analysts setting a high price target of 262.0 and a low target of 169.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 211.76923. Based on these targets, DFS could surge 64.54% to reach the target high and rise by 6.14% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 33.0% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $15.87272 being high and $13.87293 being low. For DFS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $14.81524. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $3.85 and the low estimate is $3.12. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $3.49.
