Look For Institutional Buying In Capital One Financial Corp (NYSE: COF)

Capital One Financial Corp (COF) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $175.66, with 4.03 million shares of worth about $707.68 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 28.43% during that period and on December 19, 2024 the price saw a gain of about 0.70%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 381.51M shares, out of which, 376.47M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of -4.92% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -2.95%. Year-to-date (YTD), COF shares are showing a performance of 33.97% which increased to 33.56% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $123.23 but also hit the highest price of $198.30 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Capital One Financial Corp shares is 2.81 million. The stock is currently trading -5.31% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 0.10% for SMA50 and it goes to 17.05% higher than SMA200.

Capital One Financial Corp (NYSE: COF) currently have 381.51M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 92.20% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $67.02B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.47. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 16.58, while it has posted earnings per share of $10.59 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.17 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.78. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for COF, volatility over the week remained 2.56% while standing at 1.96% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 8.12% while it is estimated to increase by 13.26% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 14.13% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 0.22% made by the stock over the past 5-years.

Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by BofA Securities on December 09, 2024 offering a Neutral rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $203 and $200 to it. On June 06, 2024, Jefferies Upgrade their recommendations, while on April 04, 2024, Wolfe Research Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $189. Stock get a Peer perform rating from Wolfe Research on January 29, 2024.

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