Why Should You Put Citigroup Inc (NYSE: C) On Your Portfolio?

Currently, there are 1.89B common shares owned by the public and among those 1.89B shares have been available to trade.

The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 2.49% and 14.63% over the past three months. C shares are trading 3.38% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 37.25% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $50.51 and touched a high of $74.29 over the same period. C has an average intraday trading volume of 13.94 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 2.53%, 4.27%, and 13.83% respectively.

Institutional ownership of Citigroup Inc (NYSE: C) shares accounts for 76.14% of the company’s 1.89B shares outstanding.

It has a market capitalization of $137.63B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.41. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 21.02, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $3.46. The company has a PEG of 0.86 and the debt-to-equity ratio at 2.97. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.20% over the week and 2.01% over the month.

Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 44.56%, and 25.73% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 24.49% over the next five years, compared to -9.56% over the past 5-year period.

Looking at the support for the C, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Barclays stated their Overweight rating for the stock in a research note on January 06, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $70-$95. Keefe Bruyette coverage for the Citigroup Inc (C) stock in a research note released on December 03, 2024 offered a Outperform rating with a price target of $82. Evercore ISI was of a view on April 04, 2024 that the stock is In-line, while Wells Fargo gave the stock Overweight rating on March 25, 2024, issuing a price target of $70- $80. Goldman on their part issued Buy rating on March 14, 2024.

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