Synchrony Financial (SYF) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $55.84, with 5.48 million shares of worth about $306.12 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 11.10% during that period and on March 05, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -0.48%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 388.26M shares, out of which, 386.58M shares are available for trading.
According to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), insiders took part in trade of the company’s stock for 0 times over the past 12 months. They bought 0 shares in 0 of the transactions. In 0 selling transactions, insiders dumped 0 shares.
Stock saw a price change of -6.51% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -17.32%. Year-to-date (YTD), SYF shares are showing a performance of -14.09% which increased to 36.03% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $39.67 but also hit the highest price of $70.93 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Synchrony Financial shares is 3.70 million. The stock is currently trading -10.90% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -14.56% for SMA50 and it goes to 0.89% higher than SMA200.
Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF) currently have 388.26M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 99.10% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $21.71B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.44. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 6.54, while it has posted earnings per share of $8.53 in the same period. Its PEG reads 0.37 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.93. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for SYF, volatility over the week remained 4.56% while standing at 3.55% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 16.96% while it is estimated to increase by 15.15% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 17.74% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 8.99% 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 Compass Point on January 28, 2025 offering a Neutral rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $70 to it. Coverage by Barclays stated Synchrony Financial (SYF) stock as an Overweight in their note to investors on January 06, 2025, suggesting a price target of $79 for the stock. On December 19, 2024, Morgan Stanley Upgrade their recommendations, while on December 09, 2024, JP Morgan Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $72. Stock get an Overweight rating from Wells Fargo on December 03, 2024.
