Consider This Before Taking a Position in ING

By Kim Brooks • Thursday, February 02 12:18 • Permanent Link

Financial Services sector company ING posted a -5.6% performance today, while the S&P 500 returned 1.4%.

ING Groep N.V., a financial institution, provides various banking products and services in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Rest of Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia, and Australia. The company is based in Amsterdam and has 58,000 full time employees. Its market capitalization is $50,160,329,819. ING currently offers its equity investors a dividend that yields 7.2% per year.

The only analyst following ING has set a target price of $17.1 per share, which is -19.21 away from its current price. This analyst rates the stock as buy.

Over the last year, ING shares have gone down by -2.1%, which represents a difference of 5.9% when compared to the S&P 500. The stock's 52 week high is $15.97 per share and its 52 week low is $8.14. With average free cash flows of $33 Billion that have been growing at an average rate of 297.7% over the last four years, ING declining stock performance may not be reflective of the quality of its underlying business.

Date Reported	Cash Flow from Operations ($ MM)	Capital expenditures ($ MM)	Free Cash Flow ($ MM)	YoY Growth (%)
2021-12-31	-14,943	-184	-15,127	-114.7
2020-12-31	103,179	-287	102,892	710.17
2019-12-31	13,055	-355	12,700	n/a

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