Some Investing Thoughts On Capital One Financial Corp (NYSE: COF)

Capital One Financial Corp (COF) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $170.45, with 4.95 million shares of worth about $843.13 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 19.53% during that period and on March 12, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 3.05%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 381.23M shares, out of which, 376.25M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of -8.34% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -14.26%. Year-to-date (YTD), COF shares are showing a performance of -4.41% which increased to 24.21% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $128.23 but also hit the highest price of $210.67 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Capital One Financial Corp shares is 3.49 million. The stock is currently trading -10.72% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -11.24% for SMA50 and it goes to 4.33% higher than SMA200.

Capital One Financial Corp (NYSE: COF) currently have 381.23M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 95.10% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $65.00B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.28. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 14.71, while it has posted earnings per share of $11.59 in the same period. Its PEG reads 0.84 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.67. 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 3.68% while standing at 3.41% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 10.06% while it is estimated to increase by 19.43% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 17.53% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 0.96% 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 Evercore ISI on Mar-13-25 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $200 to it. Coverage by Robert W. Baird stated Capital One Financial Corp (COF) stock as an Outperform in their note to investors on March 11, 2025, suggesting a price target of $200 for the stock. On February 19, 2025, BofA Securities Upgrade their recommendations, while on January 14, 2025, HSBC Securities Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $176. Stock get a Buy rating from UBS on January 13, 2025.

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