2.34% volatility in Regions Financial Corp (RF) last month: This is a red flag warning

Regions Financial Corp (NYSE: RF) on Friday, soared 0.55% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $21.95. Within the past 52 weeks, RF’s price has moved between $17.72 and $27.96.

A company in the Financial sector has jumped its sales by 7.44% annually for the last half of the decade. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 6.60%. With a float of $902.41 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $908.48 million.

In an organization with 19644 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 107.17%, operating margin of 6.06%, and the pretax margin is 28.75%.

Regions Financial Corp (RF) Insider Updates

Observing investor behavior towards Banks – Regional industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Regions Financial Corp is 0.34%, while institutional ownership is 81.68%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jan 28 ’25, was worth 13,561. In this transaction Director of this company bought 549 shares at a rate of $24.70, taking the stock ownership to the 33,791 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Dec 20 ’24, when Company’s Director bought 530 for $23.75, making the entire transaction worth $12,588. This insider now owns 32,156 shares in total.

Regions Financial Corp (RF) Performance Highlights and Predictions

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.57 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 6.60% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 8.24% during the next five years compared to 5.13% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Regions Financial Corp (NYSE: RF) Trading Performance Indicators

Regions Financial Corp (RF) 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 2.14. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 11.18.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.93, a number that is poised to hit 0.51 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 2.49 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Regions Financial Corp (RF)

Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 9.87 million. That was better than the volume of 8.19 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 19.95%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.61.

During the past 100 days, Regions Financial Corp’s (RF) raw stochastic average was set at 9.38%, which indicates a significant decrease from 18.77% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 22.35% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 28.50% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $23.89, while its 200-day Moving Average is $22.82. However, in the short run, Regions Financial Corp’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $22.34. Second resistance stands at $22.62. The third major resistance level sits at $23.06. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $21.63, it is likely to go to the next support level at $21.19. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $20.91.

Regions Financial Corp (NYSE: RF) Key Stats

Market capitalization of the company is 19.98 billion based on 905,465K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 9,373 M and income totals 1,893 M. The company made 2,387 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 534,000 K in sales during its previous quarter.