Synchrony Financial [NYSE: SYF] closed the trading session at $51.99.
The stocks have a year to date performance of -20.02 percent and weekly performance of -7.34 percent. The stock has been moved at 9.66 percent over the last six months. The stock has performed -22.97 percent around the most recent 30 days and changed -22.31 percent over the most recent 3-months.
If compared to the average trading volume of 3.84M shares, SYF reached to a volume of 6607965 in the most recent trading day, which is why market watchdogs consider the stock to be active.
Here’s what leading stock market gurus have to say about Synchrony Financial [SYF]:
Based on careful and fact-backed analyses by Wall Street experts, the current consensus on the target price for SYF shares is $78.57 per share. Analysis on target price and performance of stocks is usually carefully studied by market experts, and the current Wall Street consensus on SYF stock is a recommendation set at 1.92. This rating represents a strong Buy recommendation, on the scale from 1 to 5, where 5 would mean strong sell, 4 represents Sell, 3 is Hold, and 2 indicates Buy.
Compass Point have made an estimate for Synchrony Financial shares, keeping their opinion on the stock as Neutral, with their previous recommendation back on January 28, 2025. While these analysts kept the previous recommendation, Barclays raised their target price from $59 to $79. The new note on the price target was released on January 06, 2025, representing the official price target for Synchrony Financial stock. Previously, the target price had yet another raise from $40 to $82, while Morgan Stanley kept a Overweight rating on SYF stock. On December 09, 2024, analysts increased their price target for SYF shares from 59 to 72.
The Average True Range (ATR) for Synchrony Financial is set at 2.40, with the Price to Sales ratio for SYF stock in the period of the last 12 months amounting to 0.97. The Price to Book ratio for the last quarter was 1.31, with the Price to Cash per share for the same quarter was set at 37.84. Price to Free Cash Flow for SYF in the course of the last twelve months was 2.05.
SYF stock trade performance evaluation
Synchrony Financial [SYF] fell into the red zone at the end of the last week, falling into a negative trend and dropping by -7.34. With this latest performance, SYF shares dropped by -22.97% in over the last four-week period, additionally plugging by 9.66% over the last 6 months – not to mention a rise of 25.07% in the past year of trading.
Overbought and oversold stocks can be easily traced with the Relative Strength Index (RSI), where an RSI result of over 70 would be overbought, and any rate below 30 would indicate oversold conditions. An RSI rate of 50 would represent a neutral market momentum. The current RSI for SYF stock in for the last two-week period is set at 22.17, with the RSI for the last a single of trading hit 17.23, and the three-weeks RSI is set at 27.12 for Synchrony Financial [SYF]. The present Moving Average for the last 50 days of trading for this stock 64.38, while it was recorded at 53.80 for the last single week of trading, and 55.53 for the last 200 days.
Earnings per share (EPS) analysis for Synchrony Financial [SYF] stock
The progress of the company may be observed through the prism of EPS growth rate, while Wall Street analysts are focusing on predicting the 5-year EPS growth rate for SYF. When it comes to the mentioned value, analysts are expecting to see the 5-year EPS growth rate for Synchrony Financial go to 17.74%.
Synchrony Financial [SYF]: Institutional Ownership
The top three institutional holders of SYF stocks are: VANGUARD GROUP INC with ownership of 50.27 million shares, which is approximately 12.4208%. CAPITAL WORLD INVESTORS, holding 43.62 million shares of the stock with an approximate value of $$2.06 billion in SYF stocks shares; and CAPITAL WORLD INVESTORS, currently with $$1.69 billion in SYF stock with ownership which is approximately 8.8486%.
