Synchrony Financial (SYF) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $50.48, with 11.61 million shares of worth about $586.3 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -2.11% during that period and on April 09, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 15.17%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 388.26M shares, out of which, 386.94M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -8.30% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -2.90%. Year-to-date (YTD), SYF shares are showing a performance of -22.34% which increased to 18.75% 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 4.66 million. The stock is currently trading -2.77% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -12.94% for SMA50 and it goes to -10.57% lower than SMA200.
Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF) currently have 388.26M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 99.11% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $19.62B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.43. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 5.91, while it has posted earnings per share of $8.53 in the same period. Its PEG reads 0.42 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 13.18% while standing at 5.75% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Synchrony Financial (SYF) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 1.67 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 1.65 and it is 8.45 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 1.57 which is 1.84 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of 1.18 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 15.26% while it is estimated to increase by 13.28% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 14.14% 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 Morgan Stanley on April 07, 2025 offering an Equal-weight rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $44 to it. Coverage by Compass Point stated Synchrony Financial (SYF) stock as a Neutral in their note to investors on January 28, 2025, suggesting a price target of $70 for the stock. On January 06, 2025, Barclays Upgrade their recommendations, while on December 19, 2024, Morgan Stanley Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $82. Stock get an Overweight rating from JP Morgan on December 09, 2024.
