Citigroup Inc (C) is expecting -21.63% growth in the next quarter: What can investors do to maximize their returns?

On Monday, Citigroup Inc (NYSE: C) was -0.89% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $63.25. A 52-week range for C has been $53.51 – $84.74.

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During the last 5-year period, the sales growth of Financial Sector giant was 13.25%. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 22.01%. With a float of $1.86 billion, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $1.87 billion.

Let’s determine the extent of company efficiency that accounts for 229000 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 100.0%, operating margin of 36.11%, and the pretax margin is 21.82%.

Citigroup Inc (C) Insider Activity

Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Citigroup Inc stocks. The insider ownership of Citigroup Inc is 0.30%, while institutional ownership is 77.73%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Feb 13 ’25, was worth 1,225,284. In this transaction Chief Human Resources Officer of this company sold 15,125 shares at a rate of $81.01, taking the stock ownership to the 109,780 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Feb 14 ’25, when Company’s Hd of Ent Svc & Public Affairs sold 35,545 for $82.41, making the entire transaction worth $2,929,263. This insider now owns 204,727 shares in total.

Citigroup Inc (C) Earnings and Forecasts

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 22.01% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 24.47% during the next five years compared to -5.82% drop over the previous five years of trading.

Citigroup Inc (NYSE: C) Trading Performance Indicators

You can see what Citigroup Inc (C) 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 0.69. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 20.25.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 6.35, a number that is poised to hit 1.70 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 9.36 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Citigroup Inc (C)

Looking closely at Citigroup Inc (NYSE: C), its last 5-days average volume was 19.37 million, which is a jump from its year-to-date volume of 18.01 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 69.46%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 3.32.

During the past 100 days, Citigroup Inc’s (C) raw stochastic average was set at 24.56%, which indicates a significant decrease from 43.65% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 78.79% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 40.20% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $71.85, while its 200-day Moving Average is $68.01. However, in the short run, Citigroup Inc’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $63.24. Second resistance stands at $63.78. The third major resistance level sits at $64.43. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $62.05, it is likely to go to the next support level at $61.40. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $60.86.

Citigroup Inc (NYSE: C) Key Stats

There are 1,882,160K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 117.09 billion. As of now, sales total 170,757 M while income totals 12,684 M. Its latest quarter income was 41,250 M while its last quarter net income were 4,064 M.