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 declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 6th. Stockholders 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 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.80%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, March 5th. View Regions Financial's Dividend History.

Regions Financial announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a share buyback program on Thursday, June 27th 2019, which allows the company to buyback $1,370,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to purchase up to 9% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are generally a sign that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Regions Financial Corp (NYSE:RF) announced its earnings results on Friday, January, 17th. The bank reported $0.40 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate 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 period 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.

16 equities research analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Regions Financial's shares. Their forecasts range from $16.00 to $20.00. On average, they expect Regions Financial's stock price to reach $17.57 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 7.6% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Regions Financial.

16 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Regions Financial in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 6 hold ratings and 8 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Regions Financial.

Headlines about RF stock have trended very negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group scores the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded 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 gave news headlines about the bank a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Regions Financial.

Regions Financial saw a increase in short interest during 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. Currently, 1.7% of the shares of the company 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), Zions Bancorporation NA (ZION), Signature Bank (SBNY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), TCF Financial (TCF) and Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL).

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 a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders 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, 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 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 purchased 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 $16.33.

Regions Financial has a market capitalization of $15.75 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.