Should Investors Trust The Upside Potential In Truist Financial Corporation (TFC)?

Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE:TFC) currently has a daily average trading volume of 10.12M but it saw 5511685 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 50.38B USD, the company’s current market price of $38.59 came rising about 0.65 while comparing to the previous closing price of $38.34. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $49.06 and as low as $33.56. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $38.16 while lowest mark touched by it was $38.915.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Truist Financial Corporation (TFC) gives us an average price of $36.69, while its current price level is -21.33% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 14.99% 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 $40.17 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $43.27. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.07% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 4.34%. 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 51.71 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Robert W. Baird upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Outperform” from “Neutral” on March 05, 2025 while assigning a price target range of $48-$52. HSBC Securities issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock is $50.

Over the week, TFC’s stock price is moving 1.82% up while it is -5.92% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -11.04% down and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 0.73%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Apr-16, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.93 while estimate for next year EPS is 3.9. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $5.21B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $20.51B and seeing the company making $21.38B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $5.03B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Truist Financial Corporation’s total number of outstanding shares is 1.31B with 0.22% of that held by the insiders while 79.33% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 4.69% and return on equity (ROE) at 0.10%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 11.39 while having a 8.63 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.81. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.86 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 2.09. Its return on asset (ROA) is 0.01% on average.