Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF): Reassessing Prospects

Synchrony Financial (SYF) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $72.08, with 4.79 million shares of worth about $345.01 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 3.76% during that period and on July 23, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 2.01%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 380.65M shares, out of which, 378.91M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of 4.01% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 13.96%. Year-to-date (YTD), SYF shares are showing a performance of 44.25% which increased to 10.89% 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 $71.88 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Synchrony Financial shares is 3.56 million. The stock is currently trading 4.20% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 13.27% for SMA50 and it goes to 18.99% higher than SMA200.

Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF) currently have 380.65M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 102.36% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $27.44B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.48. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 8.75, while it has posted earnings per share of $8.23 in the same period. Its PEG reads 0.55 and has Quick Ratio of 3.83 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.94. 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 2.74% while standing at 2.11% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 28.54% while it is estimated to increase by 7.50% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 16.06% 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 BTIG Research on July 14, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $100 to it. Coverage by Morgan Stanley stated Synchrony Financial (SYF) stock as an Equal-weight in their note to investors on April 07, 2025, suggesting a price target of $44 for the stock. On January 28, 2025, Compass Point Downgrade their recommendations, while on January 06, 2025, Barclays Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $79. Stock get an Overweight rating from Morgan Stanley on December 19, 2024.

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