Regions Financial Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:RF)

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

Regions Financial declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, July 24th. Investors of record on Friday, September 6th will be paid a dividend of $0.155 per share on Tuesday, October 1st. This represents a $0.62 annualized dividend and a yield of 4.02%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 5th. This is a positive change from Regions Financial's previous quarterly dividend of $0.14. View Regions Financial's Dividend History.

Regions Financial declared that its board has approved a stock buyback plan on Thursday, June 27th 2019, which authorizes the company to repurchase $1,370,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to purchase up to 9% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are often an indication that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

Regions Financial Corp (NYSE:RF) posted its quarterly earnings results on Friday, July, 19th. The bank reported $0.39 EPS for the quarter, hitting the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.39. The bank earned $1.44 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.49 billion. Regions Financial had a net margin of 26.43% and a return on equity of 10.86%. The company's quarterly revenue was down .1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.32 EPS. View Regions Financial's Earnings History.

Regions Financial is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, October 22nd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Regions Financial.

Regions Financial will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, October 22nd at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

17 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Regions Financial's shares. Their forecasts range from $14.00 to $20.00. On average, they expect Regions Financial's stock price to reach $16.94 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 9.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Regions Financial.

17 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Regions Financial in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 5 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Regions Financial.

News articles about RF stock have trended negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group rates the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Regions Financial earned a coverage optimism score of -2.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the bank a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Regions Financial.

Regions Financial saw a drop in short interest in September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 16,540,000 shares, a drop of 7.1% from the August 30th total of 17,810,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 11,170,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.5 days. Approximately 1.7% of the company's stock are short sold. View Regions Financial's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Regions Financial investors own include Bank of America (BAC), Ford Motor (F), General Electric (GE), AT&T (T), Citigroup (C), Chesapeake Energy (CHK), Texas Capital Bancshares (TCBI), KeyCorp (KEY), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Micron Technology (MU).

Regions Financial's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.06%), Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co. (0.04%), Landsberg Bennett & Dubbaneh LLC (0.01%), Pacer Advisors Inc. (0.01%), Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. (0.01%) and Mitchell Mcleod Pugh & Williams Inc. (0.01%). 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, 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 KG&L Capital Management LLC, Crossmark Global Holdings Inc., Mitchell Mcleod Pugh & Williams Inc., Bedel Financial Consulting Inc. and Landsberg Bennett & Dubbaneh LLC. 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co., Wiley BROS. Aintree Capital LLC, Pacer Advisors Inc. and Diversified Trust Co. 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 $15.43.

Regions Financial has a market capitalization of $15.40 billion and generates $6.41 billion in revenue each year. The bank earns $1.76 billion in net income (profit) each year or $1.36 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.