After Falling -1.71% During The Past Week, Should You Still Buy Citigroup Inc (NYSE: C)?

Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C)’s traded shares stood at 2.39 million during the latest session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.44. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $58.08, to imply an increase of 1.31% or $0.75 in intraday trading. The C share’s 52-week high remains $67.81, putting it -16.75% down since that peak but still an impressive 34.28% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $38.17. The company has a valuation of $110.81B, with an average of 13.78 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 13.63 million shares over the past 3 months.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Citigroup Inc (C), translating to a mean rating of 1.76. Of 15 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give C a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 5 advise Hold as 10 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at 1.33.

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Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C) trade information

After registering a 1.31% upside in the latest session, Citigroup Inc (C) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -1.71%, and -2.02% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is 12.91%. Short interest in Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C) saw shorts transact 37.85 million shares and set a 2.79 days time to cover.

The extremes give us $50 and $90 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, C has been trading -54.96% off suggested target high and 13.91% from its likely low.

Citigroup Inc (C) estimates and forecasts

Looking at statistics comparing Citigroup Inc share performance against respective industry, we note that the company has underperformed competitors. Citigroup Inc (C) shares are 1.73% up over the last 6 months, with its year-to-date growth rate lower than industry average at -3.81% against -3.60%. Revenue is forecast to shrink -18.40% this quarter before jumping 58.40% for the next one. The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 11.20% compared to the previous financial year.

Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 11 analysts is 19.86B. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 11 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 19.47B.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 20.14B and 16.07B respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to fall -1.40% before jumping 21.10% in the following quarter.

An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings shrunk an estimated -9.56% for the past 5-year period. While 2024 is set for a 40.34% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 10.00% annually.

C Dividends

Citigroup Inc has its next earnings report out on 2024-Oct-15. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. Citigroup Inc has a forward dividend ratio of 2.15, with the share yield ticking at 3.70% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 3.74%.

Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C)’s Major holders

Citigroup Inc insiders hold 3.09% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 72.55% of the shares at 74.87% float percentage. In total, 72.55% institutions holds shares in the company, led by VANGUARD GROUP INC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 167.92 million shares (or 8.7896% of shares), all amounting to roughly $10.66 billion.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BLACKROCK INC. with 159.57 million shares, or about 8.3528% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $10.13 billion.