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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Financial Services · CIK 0000927628
$206.66
+2.53% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 21, 2026
$129.18B market value
From CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORP's FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026 · read the filing
CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL takes deposits and lends money. It took in $8.06B last year, which makes it a mid-sized company. Of every dollar it sells, about 30 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by profitability and growth, with debt worth watching.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Financial health
Strong finances across the board.
From CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORP's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Profit
$4.75B → $2.45B
Profit margin
80.3% → 30.4%
Free cash flow
$16.95B → $26.14B
Earnings per share
$12.46 → $3.92
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 19, 2026
Deteriorated: -48.4%
$4.75B to $2.45BCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
COF rose 2.53% on the latest quote. The average Financials company tracked here moved +1.15%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 1.4 points above its sector and 3.6 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Opinions from 28 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 28 analysts publishing on this company, 7 say strong buy, 16 say buy and 5 say hold. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 30 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $2.45B last year.
Yes, quickly. Sales grew 36.3% last year.
For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.20 in assets. Banks and insurers always carry high debt — that is how lending works — so this is normal for the industry and not comparable with other sectors.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 62 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 5% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
GoodNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $2.45B and generated $27.72B of cash from operations.
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 19, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 20, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 23, 2024Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 24, 2023Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 25, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $8.06B | $5.92B | $5.64B | $5.42B | $4.78B | +36.3% |
| Interest expense | — | — | $12.70B | $4.12B | $1.60B | — |
| Income before tax | $2.28B | $5.91B | $6.04B | $9.24B | $15.81B | −61.4% |
| Net income | $2.45B | $4.75B | $4.89B | $7.36B | $12.39B | −48.4% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 30.4% | 80.3% | 86.6% | 135.9% | 259.2% | −49.9 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $3.92 | $12.46 | $12.85 | $19.30 | $29.94 | −68.5% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| COFCAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORP · this page | 8.7/10 | 4/7 |
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Sold on the open market — 1,927 shares at $195.86 ($377.4K)
Holds 55,774 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingPublished results
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Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from COF's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 19, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 7 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 8.7 | 4/7 | 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 7.3 | 6/7 | 10-K, filed Feb 20, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 7.3 | 5/7 | 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 7.3 | 5/7 | 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 8.7 | 5/7 | 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 6.0 | 5/7 | 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
4 of 7 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. 2 could not be evaluated and are excluded from the total rather than counted as failures.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Deteriorated: −49.9 pts
80.3% to 30.4%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +54.2%
$16.95B to $26.14BCritical
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Deteriorated: -68.5%
$12.46 to $3.92Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +42.2%
$43.67B to $62.09BCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Deteriorated: +64.0%
381.2M to 625.1MCritical
Why it matters: New shares divide the same company into more pieces, so each existing holding owns slightly less of it. Often pay for staff or an acquisition rather than anything wrong.
Changed: +62.7%
$932.0M to $1.52BCritical
Why it matters: Cash handed to shareholders. A rise can be a higher dividend or simply more shares, and a cut is a decision the company explains in its own filing — neither is rated here.
Improved: +36.3%
$5.92B to $8.06BSignificant
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Changed: +31.1%
$1.20B to $1.58BSignificant
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Deteriorated: +10.9%
$44.99B to $49.91BNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Jul 28, 2026 — read it.
Improved: +49.8%
$1.84B to $2.76BCritical
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: turned positive
-$4.28B to $3.02BCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +341.3 pts
-231.9% to 109.3%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: turned positive
-$6.69 to $4.92Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: -14.0%
$51.92B to $44.68BNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Deteriorated: -9.3%
$61.58B to $55.88BNotable
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: -4.1%
639.5M to 613.5MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Jul 28, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Improved: +19.1 pts
90.2% to 109.3%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +38.9%
$2.17B to $3.02BSignificant
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +39.5%
$3.53 to $4.92Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: -29.5%
$79.26B to $55.88BSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +14.6%
$2.41B to $2.76BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: -11.1%
$50.26B to $44.68BNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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About 1.4% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 31.4x — a high multiple relative to the current trailing profit.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Reported annual figures
| 36.3% |
| 30.4% |
| 52.66x |
| 4.89x |
| AXPAMERICAN EXPRESS CO | 7.3/10 | 5/7 | 6.4% | 26.2% | 20.59x | 7.96x |
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| SYFSynchrony Financial | 8.0/10 | 6/6 | — | — | 7.34x | 6.10x |
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| SOFISoFi Technologies, Inc. | 7.3/10 | 1/7 | 23.1% | 77.7% | 38.99x | 3.83x |
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| ALLYAlly Financial Inc. | 7.3/10 | 6/7 | 3.8% | 68.5% | 14.23x | 11.65x |
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| Median of peers | 7.3/10 | — | 6.4% | 68.5% | 17.41x | 7.03x |
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Peers come from the company's industry classification. A difference describes the companies; it does not rank them.
Holds 59,308 shares after this filing.
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Sold on the open market — 1 shares at $225.92 ($225.92)
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Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 1,887 shares ($369.6K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Performance Shares.
Filed notice to sell 1,927 shares ($377.4K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Performance Shares.
Filed notice to sell 3,500 shares ($686.8K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Performance Shares.
Filed notice to sell 2,067 shares ($425.9K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Performance Shares.
Filed notice to sell 2,017 shares ($415.6K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Performance Shares.
Filed notice to sell 3,500 shares ($749.4K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Performance Shares.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
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Revenue +49.8% · Profit margin +341.3 pts · Profit turned positive — against Q2 FY2025
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Revenue +61.9% · Profit margin −4.1 pts · Profit +54.8% — against Q1 FY2025
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