Currently, there are 388.30M common shares owned by the public and among those 387.24M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -4.04% and 20.63% over the past three months. SYF shares are trading 2.55% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 73.32% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $37.91 and touched a high of $70.93 over the same period. SYF has an average intraday trading volume of 3.54 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 -0.87%, -0.09%, and 26.18% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF) shares accounts for 100.01% of the company’s 388.30M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $25.95B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.63. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 7.81, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $8.53. The company has a PEG of 0.33 and the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.93. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.46% over the week and 2.20% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 9.68%, and 17.19% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 23.72% over the next five years, compared to 8.97% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the SYF, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Compass Point stated their Neutral rating for the stock in a research note on Jan-29-25, with the firm’s price target at $70. Barclays coverage for the Synchrony Financial (SYF) stock in a research note released on January 06, 2025 offered a Overweight rating with a price target of $79. Morgan Stanley was of a view on December 19, 2024 that the stock is Overweight, while JP Morgan gave the stock Overweight rating on December 09, 2024, issuing a price target of $59- $72. Wells Fargo on their part issued Overweight rating on December 03, 2024.
