Prepare Yourself for Liftoff: Truist Financial Corporation (TFC)

With 6.39 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 9.91 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $37.9671 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $37.47. The 52-week range on TFC shows that it touched its highest point at $49.06 and its lowest point at $33.56 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $45.06. With its current market cap of 49.17 billion, TFC has annualized dividend of $2.08 while the current yield stands at 5.52%. TFC paid its most recent dividend on 1739491200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1739491200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.82.

Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of TFC was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 4.93%, but this was down by -10.27% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -19.85% while six-month performance fell -13.18%. The stock lost -3.01% in the past year, while it has lost -13.16% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for TFC yields 3.39 with Next year EPS estimates of 4.50. For the next quarter, that number is 0.94. This implies an EPS growth rate of 16.47% for this year and 15.02% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 1.31 billion TFC shares are outstanding with a float of 1.30 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2025-04-15, short shares totaled 27.79 million, which was 212.0 higher than short shares on 1741910400. In addition to Mr. William Henry Rogers Jr. as the firm’s Executive Chairman & CEO, Mr. Michael Baron Maguire serves as its Senior EVP & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.79326 of TFC’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for TFC since 12 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 8 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 3 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With TFC analysts setting a high price target of 50.0 and a low target of 41.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 45.62158. Based on these targets, TFC could surge 32.73% to reach the target high and rise by 8.84% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 21.11% from current levels.

EPS: Estimates vs Actual

It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $3.36035 being high and $3.30585 being low. For TFC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.3331. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.07 and the low estimate is $0.96. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.0.