Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS) on Tuesday, plunged -0.93% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $180.11. Within the past 52 weeks, DFS’s price has moved between $93.83 and $188.26.
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Financial Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 10.93% over the last five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 24.77%. With a float of $249.78 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $251.00 million.
The firm has a total of 21100 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 100.0%, operating margin of 35.64%, and the pretax margin is 18.45%.
Discover Financial Services (DFS) Insider Activity
Observing investor behavior towards Credit Services industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Discover Financial Services is 0.52%, while institutional ownership is 85.75%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jan 26 ’24, was worth 3,748,193. In this transaction EVP, Chief Financial Officer of this company sold 35,191 shares at a rate of $106.51, taking the stock ownership to the 18,592 shares.
Discover Financial Services (DFS) Earnings and Forecasts
As on 9/30/2024, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported 1.54 earnings per share (EPS) for the period falling under the consensus outlook (set at 2.47) by -0.93. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 3.33 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 24.77% per share during the next fiscal year.
Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS) Trading Performance Indicators
Discover Financial Services (DFS) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.93. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 4.76.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 12.39, a number that is poised to hit 3.17 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 12.84 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Discover Financial Services (DFS)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Discover Financial Services, DFS], we can find that recorded value of 0.99 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 1.67 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 66.57%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 4.89.
During the past 100 days, Discover Financial Services’s (DFS) raw stochastic average was set at 85.08%, which indicates a significant increase from 57.02% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 19.67% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 44.07% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $157.38, while its 200-day Moving Average is $135.44. Now, the first resistance to watch is $180.26. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $182.08. The third major resistance level sits at $183.60. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $176.91, it is likely to go to the next support level at $175.39. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $173.57.
Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 44.80 billion based on 251,072K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 20,606 M and income totals 2,940 M. The company made 5,910 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 965,000 K in sales during its previous quarter.
