That’s why I Feel Comfortable With Capital One Financial Corp’s (COF) Future

A share price of Capital One Financial Corp [COF] is currently trading at $174.47, up 1.08%. One of the good ways to gauge the recent performance is if the stock’s short-term value is rising or falling. The COF shares have gain 5.03% over the last week, with a monthly amount drifted -16.85%, and not seem to be holding up well over a long-time horizon.

From an analyst’s perspective:

Capital One Financial Corp [NYSE: COF] stock has seen the most recent analyst activity on March 12, 2025, when Evercore ISI upgraded its rating to a Outperform but kept the price target unchanged to $200 for it. Previously, Robert W. Baird upgraded its rating to Outperform on March 11, 2025, and elevated its price target to $200. On February 19, 2025, upgrade upgraded it’s rating to Buy and revised its price target to $235 on the stock. HSBC Securities upgraded its rating to a Hold but stick to its price target of $176 on January 14, 2025. UBS upgraded its rating to a Buy and raised its price target to $235 on January 13, 2025. Barclays upgraded its rating to Overweight for this stock on January 06, 2025, and upped its price target to $219. In a note dated December 09, 2024, BofA Securities downgraded an Neutral rating on this stock and revised its target price from $203 to $200.

Capital One Financial Corp experienced fluctuations in its stock price throughout the past year between $128.23 and $210.67. Currently, Wall Street analysts expect the stock to reach $212.5 within the next 12 months. Capital One Financial Corp [NYSE: COF] shares were valued at $174.47 at the most recent close of the market. An investor can expect a potential return of 21.8% based on the average COF price forecast.

Analyzing the COF fundamentals

Trailing Twelve Months sales for Capital One Financial Corp [NYSE:COF] were 53.35B which represents 6.39% growth. Gross Profit Margin for this corporation currently stands at 1.0% with Operating Profit Margin at 0.11%, Pretax Profit Margin comes in at 0.13%, and Net Profit Margin reading is 0.1%. To continue investigating profitability, this company’s Return on Assets is posted at 0.01, Equity is 0.08 and Total Capital is 0.01. An extended analysis of the company’s primary financial structure reveals a debt-to-equity ratio of0.74.

Before buying any particular stock, readers tend to pay close attention to the indicators that support and create resistance. The company’s stock is currently sitting at 171.20 points at the first support level, and at 167.93 for the second support level. However, for the 1st resistance point, the stock is sitting at 176.85, and for the 2nd resistance point, it is at 179.22.

Ratios To Look Out For

To put it in perspective, the Current Ratio for Capital One Financial Corp [NYSE:COF] is 0.49. Considering the valuation of this stock, the price to sales ratio is 1.25, the price to book ratio is 1.09 and price to earnings (TTM) ratio is 15.06.

Transactions by insiders

Recent insider trading involved Zamsky Michael, Chief Credit & Fin’l Risk Off., that happened on Nov 12 ’24 when 10541.0 shares were sold. Chief Financial Officer, Young Andrew M completed a deal on Nov 08 ’24 to sell 5901.0 shares. Meanwhile, Chief Enterprise Risk Officer West Kara sold 721.0 shares on Nov 07 ’24.

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