Analyzing Stock On Your Own: Ally Financial Inc (NYSE: ALLY)

Ally Financial Inc (NYSE:ALLY) does about 4.05M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 2200580 shares change hands in Monday trading. The company now has a market cap of 11.99B USD. Its current market price is $39.43, marking an increase of 0.36% compared to the previous close of $39.29. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $41.56 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $22.54.

Ally Financial Inc (ALLY) has a 20-day trading average at $37.74 and the current price is -5.13% off the 52-week high compared with 74.93% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $36.65 and its 200-day simple moving average is $30.34. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 3.19%, which decreases to 2.61% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 61.65 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $41.88, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 5.85% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on February 08, 2024 when Morgan Stanley upgraded the stock to “Overweight” and issued a price target of between $37 and $47. BMO Capital Markets downgraded its price target at $36.

Ally Financial Inc (ALLY) stock is up 3.82% over the week and 8.89% over the past month. Its price is 12.92% year-to-date and 64.22% over the past year.

ALLY’s earnings per share are forecast to grow by 1.00% this year and 74.40% over next year. Expected sales for next quarter are $2.01 billion, which analysts say will come at $8.26 billion for the current fiscal year and next year at $9.29 billion. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $1.98 billion.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 5.85 percent from here.

Outstanding shares total 302.46M with insiders holding 10.49% of the shares and institutional holders owning 80.84% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 3.36% and return on equity of 7.68%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 13.20 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 7.29. The beta has a value of 1.38. Price to book ratio is 1.04 and price to sales ratio is 0.76.