The trading price of Capital One Financial Corp (NYSE:COF) floating lower at last check on current market day and closing at $196.23, -0.70% lower than its previous close.
The company’s P/E ratio in the trailing 12-month period was 16.48. In examining the 52-week price action we see that the stock hit a 52-week high of $210.67 and a 52-week low of $128.23. Over the past month, the stock has lost -0.50% in value.
Capital One Financial Corp, whose market valuation is $125.62 billion at the time of this writing, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report in July. The dividend yield on the company stock is 1.22%, while its Forward Dividend ratio is 2.40. Investors’ optimism about the company’s current quarter earnings report is understandable. Analysts have predicted the quarterly earnings per share to grow by 3.73 per share this quarter, however they have predicted annual earnings per share of 15.34 for current year and 19.1 for next year.
Analysts have forecast the company to bring in revenue of 12.66B for the current quarter, with the likely lows of 12.03B and highs of 14.39B. From the analysts’ viewpoint, the consensus estimate for the company’s annual revenue is 53.2B.
On the technical side, indicators suggest COF has a 100% Buy on average for the short term. According to the data of the stock’s medium term indicators, the stock is currently averaging as a Hold, while an average of long term indicators suggests that the stock is currently 100% Buy.
Here is the average analyst rating on the stock as represented by 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock should be considered as either strong buy or strong sell respectively. The number of analysts that have assigned COF a recommendation rating is 12. Out of them, 6 rate it a Hold, while 5 recommend Buy, whereas 0 assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged Capital One Financial Corp (COF) as Underweight, while 1 advise Sell. Analysts have rated the stock Hold, likely urging investors to take advantage of the opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.
If we dig deeper into the stock’s outlook, we see that the stock’s PEG is 0.81, which symbolizes a positive outlook. A quick review shows that COF’s price is currently 1.29% off the SMA20 and 6.07% off the SMA50. The RSI metric on the 14-day chart is currently showing 54.38, and weekly volatility stands at 2.13%. When measured over the past 30 days, the indicator reaches 1.99%. Capital One Financial Corp (NYSE:COF)’s beta value is currently sitting at 1.13, while the Average True Range indicator is currently displaying 5.15. With analysts defining $190-$225 as the low and high price targets, we arrive at a consensus price target of $210 for the trailing 12-month period. The current price is about 3.17% off the estimated low and -14.66% off the forecast high, based on this estimate. Investors will be thrilled if COF’s share price rises to $210, which is the median consensus price. At that level, COF’s share price would be -7.02% below current price.
To see how Capital One Financial Corp stock has been performing today in comparison to its peers in the industry, here are the numbers: COF stock’s performance was -0.70% at last check in today’s session, and 45.26% in the past year. Capital One Financial Corp has a P/E ratio of 16.48.
An evaluation of the daily trading volume of Capital One Financial Corp (NYSE:COF) indicates that the 3-month average is 5.34 million.
Currently, records show that 640.14 million of the company’s shares remain outstanding. The insiders hold 1.47% of outstanding shares, whereas institutions hold 57.71%. However, since the stock’s price has seen 10.05% year-to-date, investors’ interest is likely to be reignited due to its potential to move even higher.
