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Legendary investor Marc Chaikin says stocks could crash in 2026--he's even calling the exact month and most likely day it will start. No one on or off Wall Street has been more accurate calling the bull and bear turns of the past 7 years. And now, Chaikin is calling the crash of 2026.
Shares Stats
| Shares Outstanding | 388,260,000 |
| Shares Float | 386,960,000 |
| Shares Short | 14,540,000 |
| Insider Holdings | 59% |
| Institution Holdings | 99.89% |
About Synchrony Financial
Synchrony Financial, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a consumer financial services company in the United States. It provides credit products, such as credit cards, commercial credit products, and consumer installment loans. The company also offers private label credit cards, dual and general purpose co-branded cards, short- and long-term installment loans, and consumer banking products; and deposit products, including certificates of deposit, individual retirement accounts, money market accounts, savings accounts, and sweep and affinity deposits, as well as accepts deposits through third-party securities brokerage firms. In addition, it provides debt cancellation products to its credit card customers through online and mobile channels; and healthcare payments and financing solutions under the CareCredit and Walgreens brands; payments and financing solutions in the apparel, specialty retail, outdoor, music, and luxury industries, such as American Eagle, Dick's Sporting Goods, Guitar Center, Kawasaki, Pandora, Polaris, Suzuki, and Sweetwater. The company offers its credit products through programs established with a group of national and regional retailers, local merchants, manufacturers, buying groups, industry associations, and healthcare service providers; and deposit products through various channels, such as digital and print. It serves digital, health and wellness, retail, home, auto, telecommunications, pet, outdoor, and other industries. The company was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.
General
| Name | Synchrony Financial |
| Ticker | SYF |
| Exchange | NYSE |
| Sector | Financial |
| Industry | Credit Services |
| Currency | USD |
| Country | USA |
| Fiscal Year End | December |
| Full Time Employees | 20,000 |
Highlights
| Analyst Target | 78.10 |
| Market Cap | 19,962,300,000 |
| PE Ratio | 6.02 |
| PEG Ratio | 1.61 |
Financials
| Curr Year EPS Estimate | 7.65 |
| Next Quarter EPS Estimate | 1.65 |
| Profit Margin | 16.51% |
| Operating Margin | 25.92 |
| Return on Assets | 0.03 |
| Return on Equity | 0.23 |
| Revenue | 20.8B |
| Earnings Per Share | 8.55 |
| Revenue Per Share | 23.69 |
| Gross Profit | 9,392,000,000 |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth | 0.21 |
Valuation
| Trailing PE | 6.27 |
| Forward PE | 6.93 |
| Price/Sales (Trailing 12 Mt.) | 2.22 |
| Price/Book (Most Recent Quarter) | 1.32 |
Dividend
Synchrony Financial pays out a dividend of $1.05 per share, with a dividend yield of 2.05%.
SYF's last dividend payment was made to shareholders on February 18, 2025.
They pay out 11.69% of their earnings out as a dividend.
Recent Dividends
| Feb 18, 2025 | $0.25 |
| Nov 15, 2024 | $0.25 |
| Aug 15, 2024 | $0.25 |
| May 15, 2024 | $0.25 |
| Feb 15, 2024 | $0.25 |
| Nov 9, 2023 | $0.25 |
| Aug 10, 2023 | $0.25 |
| May 12, 2023 | $0.23 |
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