Citizens Financial Group - CFG Stock Forecast, Price & News

13 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Citizens Financial Group in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 8 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" CFG shares.
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13 analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Citizens Financial Group's shares. Their CFG share price forecasts range from $33.00 to $58.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $48.33 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 21.1% from the stock's current price.
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Citizens Financial Group's stock was trading at $47.25 on January 1st, 2022. Since then, CFG shares have decreased by 15.5% and is now trading at $39.91.
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Citizens Financial Group saw a decrease in short interest in the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totaling 5,430,000 shares, a decrease of 30.6% from the July 15th total of 7,820,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 4,960,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.1 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, October 19th 2022.
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Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE:CFG) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, July, 19th. The bank reported $0.67 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $1.02 by $0.35. Citizens Financial Group had a net margin of 25.04% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 10.26%. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $1.46 EPS.
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Citizens Financial Group declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, July 19th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, August 2nd will be paid a dividend of $0.42 per share on Tuesday, August 16th. This represents a $1.68 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.21%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, August 1st. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.39.
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Citizens Financial Group (NYSE:CFG) pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 4.27%. CFG has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 42.53%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, CFG will have a dividend payout ratio of 32.37% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Citizens Financial Group declared that its board has authorized a share repurchase program on Monday, June 27th 2022, which authorizes the company to buyback $1,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to reacquire up to 5.6% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are usually an indication that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

893 employees have rated Citizens Financial Group Chief Executive Officer Bruce Van Saun on Glassdoor.com. Bruce Van Saun has an approval rating of 82% among the company's employees.

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

Citizens Financial Group's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (1.19%), Northern Trust Corp (1.10%), Nordea Investment Management AB (0.76%), Deutsche Bank AG (0.54%), Fiera Capital Corp (0.34%) and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.30%). Insiders that own company stock include Brendan Coughlin, Charles John Koch, Shivan S Subramaniam, Terrance Lillis and William P Hankowsky.
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One share of CFG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $39.91.

Citizens Financial Group (NYSE:CFG) has a market capitalization of $19.78 billion and generates $6.99 billion in revenue each year. The bank earns $2.32 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.95 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 17,463 workers across the globe.

Citizens Financial Group was founded in 1828.

Citizens Financial Group's mailing address is One Citizens Plaza, Providence RI, 02903. The official website for the company is www.citizensbank.com. The bank can be reached via phone at (203) 900-6715 or via email at cfginvestorrelations@citizensbank.com.