Look For Institutional Buying In Capital One Financial Corp (NYSE: COF)

Capital One Financial Corp (COF) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $162.16, with 6.29 million shares of worth about $1.02 billion changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 8.47% during that period and on April 10, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -7.29%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 381.23M shares, out of which, 377.77M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of -1.15% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -4.86%. Year-to-date (YTD), COF shares are showing a performance of -9.06% which increased to 12.99% 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 4.62 million. The stock is currently trading -5.20% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -12.12% for SMA50 and it goes to -2.87% lower than SMA200.

Capital One Financial Corp (NYSE: COF) currently have 381.23M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 94.79% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $62.10B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.14. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 13.99, 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 11.69% while standing at 6.08% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 11.07% while it is estimated to increase by 19.78% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 16.73% 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 BTIG Research on March 25, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $208 to it. Coverage by Evercore ISI stated Capital One Financial Corp (COF) stock as an Outperform in their note to investors on March 12, 2025, suggesting a price target of $200 for the stock. On March 11, 2025, Robert W. Baird Upgrade their recommendations, while on February 19, 2025, BofA Securities Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $235. Stock get a Hold rating from HSBC Securities on January 14, 2025.

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