Is There More Upside Ahead For Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF)

Synchrony Financial (SYF) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $55.46, with 4.4 million shares of worth about $244.2 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 0.73% during that period and on May 08, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 3.14%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 380.54M shares, out of which, 378.88M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of 6.02% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 26.53%. Year-to-date (YTD), SYF shares are showing a performance of -14.68% which increased to 19.94% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $40.54 but also hit the highest price of $70.93 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Synchrony Financial shares is 4.97 million. The stock is currently trading 9.74% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 6.42% for SMA50 and it goes to -2.14% lower than SMA200.

Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF) currently have 380.54M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 102.18% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $21.11B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.42. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 7.61, while it has posted earnings per share of $7.28 in the same period. Its PEG reads 0.48 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.03. 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 2.65% while standing at 4.73% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 16.86% while it is estimated to increase by 13.44% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 15.97% 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.

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