During the last session, Citizens Financial Group Inc (NYSE:CFG)’s traded shares were 6.54 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.36. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $34.10, reflecting an intraday loss of -2.35% or -$0.82. The 52-week high for the CFG share is $36.38, that puts it down -6.69 from that peak though still a striking 33.23% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $22.77. The company’s market capitalization is $15.63B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 4.96 million shares, and the average trade volume was 6.02 million shares over the past three months.
Citizens Financial Group Inc (NYSE:CFG) trade information
Citizens Financial Group Inc (CFG) registered a -2.35% downside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -2.35% in intraday trading to $34.10, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -4.80%, and it has moved by 1.49% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 12.91%. The short interest in Citizens Financial Group Inc (NYSE:CFG) is 20.0 million shares and it means that shorts have 3.17 day(s) to cover.
Citizens Financial Group Inc (CFG) estimates and forecasts
Statistics show that Citizens Financial Group Inc has outperformed its competitors in share price, compared to the industry in which it operates. Citizens Financial Group Inc (CFG) shares have gone up 33.99% during the last six months, with a year-to-date growth rate more than the industry average at 3.19% against -12.30. Yet analysts are ramping up their growth forecast for the fiscal year 2024. Revenue is predicted to shrink -26.00% this quarter and then drop -15.20% in the quarter after that. In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will decrease -4.20% compared to the previous financial year.
Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be $1.96 billion as predicted by 16 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 15 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to $1.95 billion by the end of Jun 2024. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled $2.13 billion and $2.09 billion respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to shrink by -8.00% and then drop by -6.80% in the coming quarter.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings shrunk an estimated -2.34%. While earnings are projected to return 2.55% in 2024, the next five years will return 0.85% per annum.
CFG Dividends
Citizens Financial Group Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on April 17. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for Citizens Financial Group Inc is 1.68, with the dividend yield indicating at 4.93 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years.
Citizens Financial Group Inc (NYSE:CFG)’s Major holders
Citizens Financial Group Inc insiders own 0.65% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 97.41%, with the float percentage being 98.05%. Blackrock Inc. is the largest shareholder of the company, while 989 institutions own stock in it. As of Jun 29, 2023, the company held over 60.39 million shares (or 12.79% of all shares), a total value of $1.58 billion in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 56.74 million shares, is of Vanguard Group Inc’s that is approximately 12.01% of outstanding shares. At the market price on Jun 29, 2023, these shares were valued at $1.48 billion.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Citizens Financial Group Inc (CFG) shares are Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Washington Mutual Investors Fund. Data provided on Jun 29, 2023 indicates that Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund owns about 14.35 million shares. This amounts to just over 3.04 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $374.35 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 13.81 million, or about 2.92% of the stock, which is worth about $369.99 million.
