With 3.86 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 4.92 million shares. During the session, the Credit Services company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $48.46 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $46.89. The 52-week range on SYF shows that it touched its highest point at $70.93 and its lowest point at $39.67 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $66.67. With its current market cap of 18.47 billion, SYF has annualized dividend of $1.00 while the current yield stands at 2.10%. SYF paid its most recent dividend on 1738540800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1738540800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.44.
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 SYF was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 8.40%, but this was down by -11.10% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -28.08% while six-month performance fell -10.61%. The stock gained 17.57% in the past year, while it has lost -26.91% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for SYF yields 8.53 with Next year EPS estimates of 8.55. For the next quarter, that number is 1.69. This implies an EPS growth rate of 14.55% for this year and 13.46% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 13.73% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 8.99%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 388.26 million SYF shares are outstanding with a float of 386.94 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 12.34 million, which was 317.0 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Brian D. Doubles as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Brian J. Wenzel Sr. serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 1.0015 of SYF’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 SYF since 15 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 9 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 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 SYF analysts setting a high price target of 88.0 and a low target of 44.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 67.0. Based on these targets, SYF could surge 85.22% to reach the target high and fall by -7.39% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 41.02% 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 $6.87997 being high and $6.57555 being low. For SYF, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $6.63643. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.97 and the low estimate is $1.14. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.65.
