Capital One Financial Corp (NYSE: COF) Emerges As Guiding Light For Investors

Capital One Financial Corp (NYSE:COF) currently has a daily average trading volume of 4.51M but it saw 10770053 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 66.98B USD, the company’s current market price of $174.91 came rising about 14.81 while comparing to the previous closing price of $152.35. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $210.67 and as low as $128.23. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $147.3 while lowest mark touched by it was $177.66.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Capital One Financial Corp (COF) gives us an average price of $171.25, while its current price level is -16.97% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 36.41% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $185.37 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $166.83. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 12.32% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 5.83%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 50.60 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the BTIG Research which upgraded the stock as “Buy” in its note to investors issued on March 25, 2025, recommending a price target of $208 for it. Evercore ISI upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Outperform” from “In-line” on March 12, 2025 while assigning a price target of $200. Robert W. Baird also issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $190 and $200.

Over the week, COF’s stock price is moving -3.99% down while it is 5.75% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -1.91% down and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 21.53%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Jan-20, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 3.74 while estimate for next year EPS is 15.61. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $10.16B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $41.21B and seeing the company making $43.19B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $10.05B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Capital One Financial Corp’s total number of outstanding shares is 381.23M with 3.05% of that held by the insiders while 93.21% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 4.57% and return on equity (ROE) at 7.86%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 15.09 while having a 9.45 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.16. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.10 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.26. Its return on asset (ROA) is 0.96% on average.