Discover Financial Services (DFS) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $188.72, with 3.95 million shares of worth about $745.2 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 52.55% during that period and on February 12, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -3.11%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 251.00M shares, out of which, 249.43M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -6.48% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 7.42%. Year-to-date (YTD), DFS shares are showing a performance of 8.94% which increased to 72.85% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $107.10 but also hit the highest price of $205.76 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Discover Financial Services shares is 1.41 million. The stock is currently trading -4.07% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 2.46% for SMA50 and it goes to 26.09% higher than SMA200.
Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS) currently have 251.00M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 85.47% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $47.37B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.45. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 12.12, while it has posted earnings per share of $15.57 in the same period. Its PEG reads 10.63 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.91. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for DFS, volatility over the week remained 2.73% while standing at 2.60% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -22.10% while it is estimated to increase by 14.76% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 1.14% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 14.28% 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 UBS on January 13, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $150 and $239 to it. Coverage by Barclays stated Discover Financial Services (DFS) stock as an Overweight in their note to investors on January 06, 2025, suggesting a price target of $186 for the stock. On June 07, 2024, BTIG Research Initiated their recommendations, while on February 08, 2024, Morgan Stanley Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $133. Stock get a Hold rating from HSBC Securities on January 19, 2024.
