Synchrony Financial (NYSE:SYF) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 1.55% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $47.49.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $46.76, falling within a range of $46.42 and $47.81. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 1.449 whereas the PE ratio is 5.56 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $70.93, and the low was $39.67. On the whole, SYF has fluctuated by -12.90% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Synchrony Financial currently standing at about $18.46 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Jan-27. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 1.00, with its dividend yield at 2.11%.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that SYF’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 0.41, with the price of SYF currently trading nearly -5.00% and -14.36% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 42.32, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 5.01% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 6.17%. Furthermore, Synchrony Financial (SYF)’s beta value is 1.43, and its average true range (ATR) is 3.06.
A comparison of Synchrony Financial (SYF) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. SYF showed an intraday change of 1.55% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it grew by 18.95%%.
Data on historical trading for Synchrony Financial (NYSE:SYF) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 7.16 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 4.95 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 388.26 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.46% of Synchrony Financial’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 99.15% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 12.34 million shares as on 2025-03-31, resulting in a short ratio of 2.38. According to the data, the short interest in Synchrony Financial (SYF) stood at 497.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-31; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-28 reached 14.54 million. The stock has fallen by -26.95% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the SYF stock heading into the next quarter.
