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

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

Regions Financial announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 6th. Investors of record on Friday, March 6th will be paid a dividend of $0.155 per share on Wednesday, April 1st. This represents a $0.62 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 4.48%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 5th. View Regions Financial's Dividend History.

Regions Financial declared that its Board of Directors has approved a stock buyback program on Thursday, June 27th 2019, which allows the company to buyback $1,370,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to reacquire up to 9% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are usually a sign that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

Regions Financial Corp (NYSE:RF) posted its quarterly earnings data on Friday, January, 17th. The bank reported $0.40 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.39 by $0.01. The bank had revenue of $1.48 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.48 billion. Regions Financial had a return on equity of 10.77% and a net margin of 23.42%. Regions Financial's revenue for the quarter was up 3.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $0.37 EPS. View Regions Financial's Earnings History.

Regions Financial is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 16th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Regions Financial.

15 brokerages have issued 1-year target prices for Regions Financial's stock. Their forecasts range from $16.00 to $20.00. On average, they anticipate Regions Financial's share price to reach $17.61 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 27.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Regions Financial.

15 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 and 8 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Regions Financial.

Media coverage about RF stock has been trending positive this week, according to InfoTrie. The research firm rates the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Regions Financial earned a media sentiment score of 3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the bank a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Regions Financial.

Regions Financial saw a increase in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 16,040,000 shares, an increase of 7.4% from the January 15th total of 14,930,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 8,540,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.9 days. Approximately 1.7% of the company's shares are short sold. View Regions Financial's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Regions Financial include PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), Truist Financial (TFC), SunTrust Banks (STI), M&T Bank (MTB), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), First Republic Bank (FRC), KeyCorp (KEY), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), SVB Financial Group (SIVB), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), Signature Bank (SBNY), Zions Bancorporation NA (ZION), TCF Financial (TCF), East West Bancorp (EWBC) and Cullen/Frost Bankers (CFR).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Regions Financial investors own include Bank of America (BAC), Ford Motor (F), AT&T (T), General Electric (GE), Citigroup (C), KeyCorp (KEY), Verizon Communications (VZ), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Micron Technology (MU) and Cisco Systems (CSCO).

Regions Financial's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (5.51%), LSV Asset Management (2.60%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.74%), Boston Partners (1.41%), Bank of America Corp DE (1.27%) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (0.95%). Company insiders that own Regions Financial stock include Barbara Godin, C Keith Herron, C Matthew Lusco, David J Turner Jr, David R Keenan, Grayson Hall, Hardie B Kimbrough Jr, John B Owen, 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 Renaissance Technologies LLC, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Bank of America Corp DE, Stifel Financial Corp, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Acadian Asset Management LLC and Point72 Asset Management L.P.. Company insiders that have sold Regions Financial company stock in the last year include C Keith Herron, C Matthew Lusco, David R Keenan, Hardie B Kimbrough Jr, John B Owen and Scott M Peters. View Insider Buying and Selling for Regions Financial.

RF stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including EJF Capital LLC, Hexavest Inc., Pzena Investment Management LLC, Elizabeth Park Capital Advisors Ltd., Highstreet Asset Management Inc., Boston Partners, Credit Suisse AG and Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc.. 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of RF stock can currently be purchased for approximately $13.85.

Regions Financial has a market capitalization of $13.26 billion and generates $6.76 billion in revenue each year. The bank earns $1.58 billion in net income (profit) each year or $1.55 on an earnings per share basis. Regions Financial employs 19,969 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Regions Financial.

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.