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. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, July 31st will be given a dividend of $0.36 per share on Wednesday, August 14th. This represents a $1.44 annualized dividend and a yield of 4.10%. The ex-dividend date 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 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.94 by $0.02. The bank had revenue of $1.63 billion for 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%. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $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 objectives for Citizens Financial Group's shares. Their forecasts 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 14.5% 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 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.

Press coverage about CFG stock has been trending somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of news 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 news sentiment score of 1.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the bank a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news 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 drop in short interest during the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 4,920,000 shares, a drop of 17.4% from the August 30th total of 5,960,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 4,660,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.1 days. Approximately 1.1% of the company's shares are short sold. 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), Prosperity Bancshares (PB) and Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL).

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), Bank of America (BAC), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Lam Research (LRCX), Micron Technology (MU), Paypal (PYPL) and Visa (V).

Citizens Financial Group's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Scout Investments Inc. (0.19%), Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.16%), M&R Capital Management Inc. (0.06%), Gradient Investments LLC (0.06%), Ferguson Wellman Capital Management Inc. (0.05%) and Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co. (0.04%). 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., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Delta Capital Management LLC, Cerebellum GP LLC, M&R Capital Management Inc., Bremer Bank National Association, Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. and First Hawaiian Bank. View Insider Buying and Selling for Citizens Financial Group.

CFG stock was purchased 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., Wealthfront Advisers LLC, Artemis Investment Management LLP, Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co., Ipswich Investment Management Co. Inc. and Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC. 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 $35.13.

Citizens Financial Group has a market capitalization of $15.71 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]