Regions Financial Investors Should Focus on This

By Harris Dyer • Wednesday, December 06 14:46 • Permanent Link

More and more people are talking about Regions Financial over the last few weeks. Is it worth buying the Banking stock at a price of $17.27? Only time will tell. The information below will give you a basic idea of what this investment may entail:

Regions Financial has moved -19.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 17.0%
RF has an average analyst rating of buy and is -1.09% away from its mean target price of $17.46 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $2.41
Regions Financial has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 7.2 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $1.97 and its forward P/E ratio is 8.8
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 1.12 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Regions Financial is part of the Finance sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 12.38 and an average P/B of 1.58
Regions Financial Corporation, a financial holding company, provides banking and bank-related services to individual and corporate customers. It operates through three segments: Corporate Bank, Consumer Bank, and Wealth Management. The Corporate Bank segment offers commercial banking services, such as commercial and industrial, commercial real estate, and investor real estate lending; equipment lease financing; deposit products; and securities underwriting and placement, loan syndication and placement, foreign exchange, derivatives, merger and acquisition, and other advisory services. It serves corporate, middle market, and commercial real estate developers and investors. The Consumer Bank segment provides consumer banking products and services related to residential first mortgages, home equity lines and loans, consumer credit cards, and other consumer loans, as well as deposits. The Wealth Management segment offers credit related products, and retirement and savings solutions; and trust and investment management, asset management, and estate planning services to individuals, businesses, governmental institutions, and non-profit entities. It also provides investment and insurance products; low-income housing tax credit corporate fund syndication services; and other specialty financing services. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.

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