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 dividend on Friday, October 18th. Investors of record on Wednesday, October 30th will be given a dividend of $0.36 per share on Wednesday, November 13th. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, October 29th. View Citizens Financial Group's Dividend History.

Citizens Financial Group Inc (NYSE:CFG) released its earnings results on Friday, October, 18th. The bank reported $0.98 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.96 by $0.02. The bank had revenue of $1.64 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.62 billion. Citizens Financial Group had a return on equity of 8.85% and a net margin of 22.29%. Citizens Financial Group's revenue was up 4.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.93 earnings per share. 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.

11 brokerages have issued 12 month price objectives for Citizens Financial Group's shares. Their predictions range from $32.00 to $43.00. On average, they expect Citizens Financial Group's share price to reach $39.61 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 10.2% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Citizens Financial Group.

11 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 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Citizens Financial Group.

Press coverage about CFG stock has trended somewhat positive on Wednesday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. 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 headlines about the bank a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Citizens Financial Group.

Citizens Financial Group saw a decrease in short interest during the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 4,920,000 shares, a decrease of 17.4% from the August 30th total of 5,960,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 4,660,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.1 days. Currently, 1.1% of the shares of the company 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), Northern Trust (NTRS), M&T Bank (MTB), 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), 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 a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders 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 ZWJ Investment Counsel Inc. (0.10%). 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Ferguson Wellman Capital Management Inc., State of Alaska Department of Revenue, ZWJ Investment Counsel Inc., Winmill & CO. Inc., Coastline Trust Co, Wealthfront Advisers LLC, Artemis Investment Management LLP and Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co.. 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 $35.94.

Citizens Financial Group has a market capitalization of $16.07 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]