-27.54% percent quarterly performance for Synchrony Financial (SYF) is not indicative of the underlying story

On Monday, Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF) was 1.80% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $46.13. A 52-week range for SYF has been $39.67 – $70.93.

During the last 5-year period, the sales growth of Financial Sector giant was 7.68%. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 14.55%. With a float of $386.94 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $388.26 million.

Let’s determine the extent of company efficiency that accounts for 20000 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 83.92%, operating margin of 47.41%, and the pretax margin is 24.66%.

Synchrony Financial (SYF) Insider Activity

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 99.17%. 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) Earnings and Forecasts

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.65 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 14.55% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 13.73% 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 0.88. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 1.85.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 8.53, a number that is poised to hit 1.69 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 8.55 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Synchrony Financial (SYF)

Looking closely at Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF), its last 5-days average volume was 6.87 million, which is a jump from its year-to-date volume of 4.64 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 40.50%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 3.43.

During the past 100 days, Synchrony Financial’s (SYF) raw stochastic average was set at 21.11%, which indicates a significant decrease from 40.06% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 103.69% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 48.57% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $56.64, while its 200-day Moving Average is $56.47. However, in the short run, Synchrony Financial’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $47.75. Second resistance stands at $48.53. The third major resistance level sits at $49.37. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $46.13, it is likely to go to the next support level at $45.29. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $44.51.

Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF) Key Stats

There are 388,750K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 18.26 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.