Synchrony Financial (SYF) recent activity suggests a positive outlook with the last week’s performance of -2.94%

On Friday, Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF) was -3.19% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $54.16. A 52-week range for SYF has been $39.67 – $70.93.

Annual sales at Financial sector company grew by 7.68% over the past five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 17.13%. With a float of $386.95 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $388.26 million.

Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 20000 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 84.57%, operating margin of 47.41%, and the pretax margin is 24.66%.

Synchrony Financial (SYF) Insider and Institutional Ownership

Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Synchrony Financial stocks. The insider ownership of Synchrony Financial is 0.46%, while institutional ownership is 99.08%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Feb 28 ’25, was worth 8,938,696. In this transaction an insider of this company sold 148,747 shares at a rate of $60.09, taking the stock ownership to the 677,421 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 03 ’25, when Company’s insider sold 58,026 for $60.01, making the entire transaction worth $3,482,140. This insider now owns 56,462 shares in total.

Synchrony Financial (SYF) Latest Financial update

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.72 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 17.13% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 17.35% during the next five years compared to 8.99% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF) Trading Performance Indicators

You can see what Synchrony Financial (SYF) is doing with its current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.98. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 2.07.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 8.53, a number that is poised to hit 1.64 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 8.87 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Synchrony Financial (SYF)

Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF) saw its 5-day average volume 3.2 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 4.21 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 43.06%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 2.01.

During the past 100 days, Synchrony Financial’s (SYF) raw stochastic average was set at 7.78%, which indicates a significant decrease from 21.18% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 33.83% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 41.29% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $61.25, while its 200-day Moving Average is $56.23. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $53.79 in the near term. At $55.14, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $56.09. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $51.49, it is likely to go to the next support level at $50.54. The third support level lies at $49.19 if the price breaches the second support level.

Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF) Key Stats

There are 388,750K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 20.38 billion. As of now, sales total 24,166 M while income totals 3,499 M. Its latest quarter income was 5,838 M while its last quarter net income were 774,000 K.