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. Stockholders 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 dividend yield of 4.23%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, December 6th. View Regions Financial's Dividend History.

Regions Financial announced that its board has approved a stock repurchase program on Thursday, June 29th 2017, which permits the company to repurchase $1,470,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to repurchase up to 8.7% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are often a sign that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Regions Financial Corp (NYSE:RF) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, October, 23rd. The bank reported $0.32 EPS for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.36 by $0.04. The bank had revenue of $1.46 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.47 billion. Regions Financial had a net margin of 26.39% and a return on equity of 10.15%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 5.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business 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 analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Regions Financial's shares. Their predictions 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 39.3% 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 coverage about RF stock has trended somewhat positive recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group identifies negative and positive news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Regions Financial earned a media sentiment score of 1.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the bank a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several 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 daily trading volume, of 13,402,166 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.4 days. Currently, 1.8% of the shares of the company are sold short. 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 many different of institutional and retail 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 acquired 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 $13.23.

Regions Financial has a market capitalization of $13.93 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.