Synchrony Financial (SYF) Down In Early Morning Trading
Trade-Ideas LLC identified
(
) as a pre-market laggard candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Synchrony Financial as such a stock due to the following factors:
- SYF has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $751.5 million.
- SYF traded 1.8 million shares today in the pre-market hours as of 8:04 AM.
- SYF is down 2.1% today from Friday's close.
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More details on SYF:
Synchrony Financial operates as a consumer financial services company in the United States. SYF has a PE ratio of 12. Currently there are 9 analysts that rate Synchrony Financial a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 2 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Synchrony Financial has been 6.0 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Synchrony Financial has a market cap of $25.7 billion and is part of the financial sector and financial services industry. Shares are up 2.6% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Friday.
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Analysis:
rates Synchrony Financial as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, solid stock price performance and notable return on equity. However, as a counter to these strengths, we find that the company's profit margins have been poor overall.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- The revenue growth came in higher than the industry average of 4.2%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 8.0%. This growth in revenue appears to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, improving the earnings per share.
- The stock has not only risen over the past year, it has done so at a faster pace than the S&P 500, reflecting the earnings growth and other positive factors similar to those we have cited here. Looking ahead, our view is that this company's fundamentals will not have much impact in either direction, allowing the stock to generally move up or down based on the push and pull of the broad market.
- Net operating cash flow has slightly increased to $1,317.00 million or 1.69% when compared to the same quarter last year. Despite an increase in cash flow, SYNCHRONY FINANCIAL's cash flow growth rate is still lower than the industry average growth rate of 15.62%.
- The gross profit margin for SYNCHRONY FINANCIAL is currently lower than what is desirable, coming in at 31.50%. It has decreased from the same quarter the previous year. Regardless of the weak results of the gross profit margin, the net profit margin of 16.51% is above that of the industry average.
- You can view the full Synchrony Financial Ratings Report.
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