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 paid a dividend of $0.14 per share on Wednesday, January 2nd. This represents a $0.56 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.16%. 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 authorized a stock repurchase plan on Thursday, June 29th 2017, which authorizes the company to repurchase $1,470,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to buy up to 8.7% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are usually a sign that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

Regions Financial Corp (NYSE:RF) announced its earnings results on Tuesday, October, 23rd. The bank reported $0.32 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.36 by $0.04. The bank earned $1.46 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.47 billion. Regions Financial had a return on equity of 10.15% and a net margin of 26.39%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 5.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $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 brokers have issued 1-year price objectives for Regions Financial's stock. Their forecasts range from $11.00 to $22.00. On average, they anticipate Regions Financial's stock price to reach $18.4250 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 36.8% 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 2 sell ratings, 5 hold ratings, 6 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Regions Financial.

News articles about RF stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Regions Financial earned a news impact score of 1.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the bank a news buzz of 6.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days.

Regions Financial saw a decrease in short interest in 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 trading volume of 13,402,166 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.4 days. Currently, 1.8% of the company's stock are short sold. View Regions Financial's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Regions Financial include PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), UBS Group (UBS), National Australia Bank (NABZY), DBS GRP HOLDING/S (DBSDY), Mizuho Financial Group (MFG), Capital One Financial (COF), Intesa Sanpaolo (ISNPY), BB&T (BBT), BANCO DO BRASIL/S (BDORY), Standard Chartered (SCBFF), SunTrust Banks (STI), DANSKE BK A/S/S (DNKEY), Shinhan Financial Group (SHG), KeyCorp (KEY) and Huntington Bancshares (HBAN).

Regions Financial's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (12.39%), Vanguard Group Inc (12.39%), BlackRock Inc. (7.89%), LSV Asset Management (2.60%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (1.94%) and Bank of Montreal Can (1.44%). 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 $13.47.

Regions Financial has a market capitalization of $14.25 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.