Let’s look at the key reasons that are pushing Synchrony Financial (SYF) to new highs

Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF) kicked off on Monday, up 8.50% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $55.63. Over the past 52 weeks, SYF has traded in a range of $40.54-$70.93.

During the last 5-year period, the sales growth of Financial Sector giant was 7.68%. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 16.86%. With a float of $378.88 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $380.54 million.

Let’s determine the extent of company efficiency that accounts for 20000 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 80.01%, operating margin of 57.37%, and the pretax margin is 21.21%.

Synchrony Financial (SYF) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock

Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Credit Services Industry. The insider ownership of Synchrony Financial is 0.46%, while institutional ownership is 102.89%. 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) Recent Fiscal highlights

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.16 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 16.86% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 15.97% during the next five years compared to 8.99% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF) Trading Performance Indicators

Take a look at Synchrony Financial’s (SYF) current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.17. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 2.34.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 7.28, a number that is poised to hit 1.59 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 8.72 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 4.1 million, which is a drop from its year-to-date volume of 4.57 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 93.42%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 2.39.

During the past 100 days, Synchrony Financial’s (SYF) raw stochastic average was set at 65.21%, which indicates a significant decrease from 95.94% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 37.90% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 51.73% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $52.04, while its 200-day Moving Average is $56.75. However, in the short run, Synchrony Financial’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $61.19. Second resistance stands at $62.03. The third major resistance level sits at $63.23. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $59.15, it is likely to go to the next support level at $57.95. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $57.11.

Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF) Key Stats

The company with the Market Capitalisation of 22.98 billion has total of 380,651K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 24,166 M in contrast with the sum of 3,499 M annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 5,699 M and last quarter income was 757,000 K.