In today’s recent session, 0.37 million shares of the Synchrony Financial (NYSE:SYF) have been traded, and its beta is 1.42. Most recently the company’s share price was $54.30, and it changed around $0.9 or 1.69% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $20.67B. SYF at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $70.93, offering almost -30.63% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $40.54, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 25.34% since then.
Synchrony Financial stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.96. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 22 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 5 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 8 recommended SYF as a Hold, whereas 9 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. Synchrony Financial is expected to report earnings per share of 1.62 for the current quarter.
Synchrony Financial (NYSE:SYF) trade information
Instantly SYF has been showing a green trend so far today with a performance of 1.69% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 54.81 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 0.93%. The company’s shares are currently down -16.46% year-to-date, but still up 4.52% over the last five days. On the other hand, Synchrony Financial (NYSE:SYF) is 21.18% up in the 30-day period.
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $54, which translates to bulls needing to decrease their stock price by -0.56% from its current value. Analyst projections state that SYF is forecast to be at a low of $40 and a high of $68.
Synchrony Financial (SYF) estimates and forecasts
The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be -5.69%, down from the previous year.
Consensus estimates provided by 12 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 3.71B in revenue for the current quarter. 12 analysts expect Synchrony Financial to make 3.85B in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 3.71B and 3.81B respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 0.03%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 0.92%.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 8.99%. Synchrony Financial earnings are expected to increase by 16.86% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 15.97% per year for the next five years.
SYF Dividends
Synchrony Financial’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released in June. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 1.93 percent and its annual dividend per share was 1.05. It is important to note, however, that the 1.93% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision.
CAPITAL WORLD INVESTORS, with 10.9248% or 43.62 million shares worth $2.06 billion as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
AMERICAN BALANCED FUND and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Mar 31, 2025 . The former held 20.74 shares worth $1.13 billion, making up 5.45% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held roughly 12.19 shares worth around $661.8 million, which represents about 3.20% of the total shares outstanding.
