NYSE:RF - Regions Financial Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Regions Financial trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "RF."

Regions Financial announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 18th. Investors of record on Friday, December 7th will be given a dividend of $0.14 per share on Wednesday, January 2nd. This represents a $0.56 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.76%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, December 6th. View Regions Financial's Dividend History.

Regions Financial announced that its Board of Directors has approved a share repurchase program on Thursday, June 29th 2017, which allows the company to repurchase $1,470,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to repurchase up to 8.7% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are usually an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Regions Financial Corp (NYSE:RF) released its earnings results on Tuesday, October, 23rd. The bank reported $0.32 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.36 by $0.04. The bank had revenue of $1.46 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.47 billion. Regions Financial had a net margin of 26.39% and a return on equity of 10.15%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 5.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $0.25 EPS. View Regions Financial's Earnings History.

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

14 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Regions Financial's stock. Their predictions range from $11.00 to $22.00. On average, they anticipate Regions Financial's share price to reach $18.6833 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 25.4% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Regions Financial.

14 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Regions Financial in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 6 hold ratings, 6 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Regions Financial.

News articles about RF stock have trended positive recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group rates the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Regions Financial earned a media sentiment score of 2.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the bank a news buzz of 3.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future.

Regions Financial saw a decrease in short interest in the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totalling 19,429,669 shares, a decrease of 19.2% from the October 31st total of 24,034,698 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 13,402,166 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.4 days. Approximately 1.8% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Regions Financial's Current Options Chain.

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Regions Financial's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (12.39%), BlackRock Inc. (7.89%), LSV Asset Management (2.60%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (1.94%), Bank of Montreal Can (1.44%) and Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (1.38%). Company insiders that own Regions Financial stock include Barbara Godin, Brett D Couch, C Keith Herron, C Matthew Lusco, David J Turner Jr, David R Keenan, Fournier J Gale III, Grayson Hall, Hardie B Kimbrough Jr, John B Owen, John E D D S Maupin Jr, Ronald G Smith, Scott M Peters, Susan W Matlock, William D Ritter and William E Horton. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Regions Financial.

RF stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, MERIAN GLOBAL INVESTORS UK Ltd, Man Group plc, Deutsche Bank AG, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp, First Quadrant L P CA, First Trust Advisors LP and AQR Capital Management LLC. Company insiders that have sold Regions Financial company stock in the last year include Barbara Godin, C Keith Herron, C Matthew Lusco, David J Turner Jr, David R Keenan, Grayson Hall, Ronald G Smith, Scott M Peters, Susan W Matlock, William D Ritter and William E Horton. View Insider Buying and Selling for Regions Financial.

RF stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Panagora Asset Management Inc., Morgan Stanley, MARSHALL WACE ASIA Ltd, Janus Henderson Group PLC, WINTON GROUP Ltd, Glenmede Trust Co. NA and The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company . View Insider Buying and Selling for Regions Financial.

Shares of RF 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of RF stock can currently be purchased for approximately $14.90.

Regions Financial has a market capitalization of $15.40 billion and generates $6.09 billion in revenue each year. The bank earns $1.26 billion in net income (profit) each year or $1.00 on an earnings per share basis. Regions Financial employs 21,714 workers across the globe.

The official website for Regions Financial is http://www.regions.com.

Regions Financial's mailing address is 1900 FIFTH AVENUE NORTH, BIRMINGHAM AL, 35203. The bank can be reached via phone at 800-734-4667.