Citizens Financial Group Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:CFG)

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, July 19th. Investors of record on Wednesday, July 31st will be paid a dividend of $0.36 per share on Wednesday, August 14th. This represents a $1.44 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.05%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, July 30th. This is a boost from Citizens Financial Group's previous quarterly dividend of $0.32. View Citizens Financial Group's Dividend History.

Citizens Financial Group Inc (NYSE:CFG) announced its quarterly earnings results on Friday, October, 18th. The bank reported $0.98 EPS for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.96 by $0.02. The bank earned $1.64 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.62 billion. Citizens Financial Group had a return on equity of 8.94% and a net margin of 22.61%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 4.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $0.93 EPS. View Citizens Financial Group's Earnings History.

Citizens Financial Group is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, January 17th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Citizens Financial Group.

13 brokerages have issued twelve-month target prices for Citizens Financial Group's stock. Their predictions range from $32.00 to $45.00. On average, they expect Citizens Financial Group's share price to reach $40.21 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 13.0% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Citizens Financial Group.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Citizens Financial Group in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Citizens Financial Group.

News articles about CFG stock have trended somewhat positive recently, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news 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 0.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the bank a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Citizens Financial Group.

Citizens Financial Group saw a decline in short interest in the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 4,920,000 shares, a decline of 17.4% from the August 30th total of 5,960,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 4,660,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.1 days. Currently, 1.1% of the company's stock are short sold. View Citizens Financial Group's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Citizens Financial Group include Bank of New York Mellon (BK), State Street (STT), M&T Bank (MTB), Northern Trust (NTRS), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), Deutsche Bank (DB), SVB Financial Group (SIVB), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), Signature Bank (SBNY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA), Popular (BPOP), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), Prosperity Bancshares (PB) and First Financial Bankshares (FFIN).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Citizens Financial Group investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Intel (INTC), Alibaba Group (BABA), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Lam Research (LRCX), Micron Technology (MU), Paypal (PYPL), Bank of America (BAC) and Visa (V).

Citizens Financial Group's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Miller Howard Investments Inc. NY (0.46%), Cambiar Investors LLC (0.28%), Scout Investments Inc. (0.19%), Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.16%), Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (0.15%) and Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.09%). Company insiders that own Citizens Financial Group stock include Charles John Koch, Randall J Black, Shivan S Subramaniam and Wendy A Watson. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Citizens Financial Group.

CFG stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Scout Investments Inc., Strs Ohio, Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Miller Howard Investments Inc. NY, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank and Cambiar Investors LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Citizens Financial Group.

CFG stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Ferguson Wellman Capital Management Inc., State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Winmill & CO. Inc., Coastline Trust Co, Wealthfront Advisers LLC, Artemis Investment Management LLP, Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co. and Newman Dignan & Sheerar 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.

Shares of CFG can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of CFG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $35.58.

Citizens Financial Group has a market capitalization of $15.91 billion and generates $7.35 billion in revenue each year. The bank earns $1.72 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.56 on an earnings per share basis. Citizens Financial Group employs 18,100 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Citizens Financial Group.

The official website for Citizens Financial Group is http://www.citizensbank.com/.

Citizens Financial Group's mailing address is One Citizens Plaza, Providence RI, 02903. The bank can be reached via phone at 401-456-7000 or via email at [email protected]