Currently, there are 251.63M common shares owned by the public and among those 250.22M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 5.25% and 2.08% over the past three months. DFS shares are trading 15.48% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 60.81% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $119.95 and touched a high of $207.42 over the same period. DFS has an average intraday trading volume of 2.42 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 6.08%, 16.07%, and 21.02% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS) shares accounts for 83.66% of the company’s 251.63M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $50.34B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.14. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 10.69, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $18.72. The company has a PEG of 35.63 and the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.77. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.80% over the week and 3.11% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -18.33%, and 9.82% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 0.30% over the next five years, compared to 14.28% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the DFS, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Jefferies stated their Hold rating for the stock in a research note on May 07, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $180. UBS coverage for the Discover Financial Services (DFS) stock in a research note released on January 13, 2025 offered a Buy rating with a price target of $239. Morgan Stanley on their part issued Overweight rating on February 08, 2024.
