Capital One Financial (COF) Stock Forecast, Price & News

12 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Capital One Financial in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 5 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" COF shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in COF, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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12 brokerages have issued twelve-month price objectives for Capital One Financial's stock. Their COF share price forecasts range from $81.00 to $130.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $109.09 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 10.3% from the stock's current price.
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Capital One Financial's stock was trading at $92.96 at the start of the year. Since then, COF stock has increased by 6.4% and is now trading at $98.90.
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Capital One Financial saw a increase in short interest in the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totaling 7,790,000 shares, an increase of 13.4% from the August 15th total of 6,870,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,300,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.4 days. Currently, 2.1% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 26th 2023.
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Capital One Financial Co. (NYSE:COF) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July, 20th. The financial services provider reported $3.52 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.31 by $0.21. The financial services provider had revenue of $9.01 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $9.13 billion. Capital One Financial had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 9.72% and a net margin of 11.94%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 9.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $4.96 earnings per share.
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Capital One Financial declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, July 26th. Investors of record on Monday, August 7th will be paid a dividend of $0.60 per share on Friday, August 18th. This represents a $2.40 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.43%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, August 4th.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Capital One Financial (NYSE:COF) stock in their portfolio include Davis Select U.S. Equity ETF (DUSA), Davis Select Financial ETF (DFNL), Davis Select Worldwide ETF (DWLD), Fidelity Disruptive Finance ETF (FDFF), Invesco KBW Bank ETF (KBWB), First Trust Dorsey Wright Momentum & Value ETF (DVLU), American Customer Satisfaction ETF (ACSI) and iShares Focused Value Factor ETF (FOVL).

Capital One Financial (NYSE:COF) pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.36%. The dividend payout ratio is 18.38%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, COF will have a dividend payout ratio of 17.84% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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4,654 employees have rated Capital One Financial Chief Executive Officer Richard D. Fairbank on Glassdoor.com. Richard D. Fairbank has an approval rating of 94% among the company's employees. This puts Richard D. Fairbank in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Capital One Financial trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "COF."

Capital One Financial's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (6.41%), State Street Corp (4.26%), Capital World Investors (3.69%), Berkshire Hathaway Inc (3.27%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (2.52%) and Aristotle Capital Management LLC (2.50%). Insiders that own company stock include Ann F Hackett, Frank G LapradeIii, John G Finneran Jr, Jory A Berson, Kara West, Kevin S Borgmann, Kevin S Borgmann, Mark Daniel Mouadeb, Matthew W Cooper, Michael J Wassmer, Michael Slocum, Neal Blinde, Richard D Fairbank, Richard D Fairbank, Robert M Alexander, Sheldon Hall, Timothy P Golden and Yajnik Sanjiv.
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Shares of COF stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of COF stock can currently be purchased for approximately $98.90.

Capital One Financial (NYSE:COF) has a market capitalization of $37.72 billion and generates $38.37 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $7.36 billion in net income (profit) each year or $13.06 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 55,943 workers across the globe.

Capital One Financial's mailing address is 1680 CAPITAL ONE DRIVE, MCLEAN VA, 22102. The official website for the company is www.capitalone.com. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at (703) 720-1000, via email at investor.relations@capitalone.com, or via fax at 302-636-5454.