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 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.01%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, July 30th. This is a positive change 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, July, 19th. The bank reported $0.96 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.94 by $0.02. The bank had revenue of $1.63 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.62 billion. Citizens Financial Group had a net margin of 22.61% and a return on equity of 8.94%. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $0.88 EPS. View Citizens Financial Group's Earnings History.

Citizens Financial Group is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, October 18th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Citizens Financial Group.

Citizens Financial Group will be holding an earnings conference call on Friday, October 18th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

13 equities research analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Citizens Financial Group's shares. Their predictions range from $35.00 to $45.00. On average, they expect Citizens Financial Group's share price to reach $40.7083 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 13.5% 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 4 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Citizens Financial Group.

News coverage about CFG stock has trended somewhat negative on Sunday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group identifies negative and positive press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Citizens Financial Group earned a coverage optimism score of -1.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage 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 stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Citizens Financial Group.

Citizens Financial Group saw a decline in short interest in the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 6,101,000 shares, a decline of 41.3% from the July 31st total of 10,396,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 4,320,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.4 days. Approximately 1.4% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Citizens Financial Group's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Citizens Financial Group include BANCO BRADESCO/S (BBDO), 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) and Prosperity Bancshares (PB).

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

Citizens Financial Group's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (11.49%), BlackRock Inc. (9.71%), BlackRock Inc. (9.71%), Invesco Ltd. (4.84%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (3.37%) and LSV Asset Management (2.03%). 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 JPMorgan Chase & Co., D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc., Panagora Asset Management Inc., Waddell & Reed Financial Inc., Natixis, Natixis, Unigestion Holding SA and Bank of America Corp DE. View Insider Buying and Selling for Citizens Financial Group.

CFG stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Eminence Capital LP, Nomura Holdings Inc., Nomura Holdings Inc., Prudential Financial Inc., Balyasny Asset Management LLC, AQR Capital Management LLC and MUFG Securities EMEA plc. 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 $35.88.

Citizens Financial Group has a market capitalization of $16.04 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]