NYSE:CFG - Citizens Financial Group Stock Price, Forecast & News

Citizens Financial Group trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "CFG."

Citizens Financial Group announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, January 17th. Investors of record on Wednesday, January 29th will be given a dividend of $0.39 per share on Wednesday, February 12th. This represents a $1.56 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 4.03%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, January 28th. This is a boost from Citizens Financial Group's previous quarterly dividend of $0.36. View Citizens Financial Group's Dividend History.

Citizens Financial Group Inc (NYSE:CFG) issued its quarterly earnings results on Friday, January, 17th. The bank reported $0.99 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.96 by $0.03. The bank earned $1.59 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.63 billion. The firm's quarterly revenue was down .3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business earned $0.98 earnings per share. View Citizens Financial Group's Earnings History.

Citizens Financial Group is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 16th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Citizens Financial Group.

9 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Citizens Financial Group's stock. Their forecasts range from $38.00 to $49.00. On average, they anticipate Citizens Financial Group's stock price to reach $42.28 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 9.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Citizens Financial Group.

9 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Citizens Financial Group in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Citizens Financial Group.

Media coverage about CFG stock has been trending somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Citizens Financial Group earned a coverage optimism score of 2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the bank a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Citizens Financial Group.

Citizens Financial Group saw a increase in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 8,130,000 shares, an increase of 26.2% from the January 15th total of 6,440,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 3,510,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.3 days. Currently, 1.9% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Citizens Financial Group's Current Options Chain.

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Citizens Financial Group's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (5.00%), Franklin Resources Inc. (3.42%), Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC (2.83%), LSV Asset Management (2.15%), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (1.90%) and Bank of Montreal Can (1.29%). Company insiders that own Citizens Financial Group stock include Charles John Koch, Randall J Black and Shivan S Subramaniam. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Citizens Financial Group.

CFG stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Marshall Wace LLP, Schroder Investment Management Group, EJF Capital LLC, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Acadian Asset Management LLC, MUFG Securities EMEA plc, Franklin Resources Inc. and AJO LP. View Insider Buying and Selling for Citizens Financial Group.

CFG stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including AQR Capital Management LLC, Hexavest Inc., Scout Investments Inc., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Artemis Investment Management LLP, UBS Asset Management Americas Inc., British Airways Pensions Investment Management Ltd and Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc.. Company insiders that have bought Citizens Financial Group stock in the last two years include Charles John Koch and Shivan S Subramaniam. View Insider Buying and Selling for Citizens Financial Group.

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One share of CFG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $38.67.