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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Financial Services · CIK 0001601712
$74.11
+1.02% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 21, 2026
$25.72B market value
From Synchrony Financial's FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026 · read the filing
Synchrony Financial lends money and provides credit.
The financial picture is led by profitability, 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 Synchrony Financial's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Shares in issue
388.0M → 347.0M
Earnings per share
$9.02 → $10.24
Dividends paid
$398.0M → $427.0M
2 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 6, 2026
Improved: -10.6%
388.0M to 347.0MCritical
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.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
SYF rose 1.02% on the latest quote. The average Financials company tracked here moved +1.10%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is in line with its sector and 2.1 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Opinions from 27 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 27 analysts publishing on this company, 6 say strong buy, 12 say buy and 9 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 earned $3.55B last year.
Not enough history has been reported to judge growth.
For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.16 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 12 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 4% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 10 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 $3.55B and generated $9.85B 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 6, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 6, 2026Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 8, 2024Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 9, 2023Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 10, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interest expense | — | — | $3.71B | $1.52B | $1.03B | — |
| Income before tax | $4.62B | $4.55B | $2.90B | $3.96B | $5.50B | +1.5% |
| Net income | $3.55B | $3.50B | $2.24B | $3.02B | $4.22B | +1.5% |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $10.24 | $9.02 | $5.50 | $6.88 | $8.01 | +13.5% |
† 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SYFSynchrony Financial · this page | 8.0/10 | 6/6 | — | — | 7.24x | 6.10x |
| AXPAMERICAN EXPRESS CO | 7.3/10 | 5/7 |
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.
Was granted or awarded shares — 846 shares at $70.97 ($60.0K)
Holds 35,333 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 846 shares at $70.97 ($60.0K)
Holds 52,670 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Quarterly report for Q3 FY2026
Shares in issue -13.6% · Profit -17.2% · Long-term debt +18.0% — against Q3 FY2025
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
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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 SYF's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 6, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Growth and Accounting had too few reported figures and are 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. 6 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 | 8.0 | 6/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 8.0 | 6/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 7, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 8.0 | 4/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 8, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 8.0 | 5/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 9, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 8.0 | 6/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 10, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 8.0 | 5/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 11, 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
6 of 6 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. 3 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.
Improved: +13.5%
$9.02 to $10.24Notable
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.
Changed: +7.3%
$398.0M to $427.0MNotable
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.
Q3 FY2026 against Q3 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Oct 22, 2026 — read it.
Improved: -13.6%
360.1M to 311.0MCritical
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.
Deteriorated: -17.2%
$1.08B to $892.0MSignificant
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.
Deteriorated: +18.0%
$14.43B to $17.02BSignificant
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.
Q3 FY2026 against Q2 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Oct 22, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Improved: +5.3%
$2.72 to $2.87Notable
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: -4.3%
325.0M to 311.0MNotable
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.
3 other measures barely moved. 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 5.0% 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 7.0x — investors pay $7.0 for each $1 of 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
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| Median of peers | 7.3/10 | — | 14.7% | 49.5% | 29.79x | 6.43x |
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Peers come from the company's industry classification. A difference describes the companies; it does not rank them.
Was granted or awarded shares — 846 shares at $70.97 ($60.0K)
Holds 33,087 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 1,287 shares at $70.97 ($91.3K)
Holds 66,904 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 846 shares at $70.97 ($60.0K)
Holds 6,528 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 846 shares at $70.97 ($60.0K)
Holds 31,119 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 846 shares at $70.97 ($60.0K)
Holds 53,380 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 846 shares at $70.97 ($60.0K)
Holds 27,012 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 5,456 shares ($436.5K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Stock Option Exercise.
Filed notice to sell 721 shares ($55.3K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Vesting.
Filed notice to sell 610 shares ($46.8K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Vesting.
Filed notice to sell 4,000 shares ($25.24B) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Acquired as comp.
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.
Published results
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Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Shares in issue -12.6% · Cash -16.8% · Profit -8.5% — against Q2 FY2025
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Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
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Read the filingChanged the rights attached to its shares · Amended its charter or changed its financial year · Reported another event
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Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Shares in issue -11.4% · Earnings per share +20.1% · Profit +6.3% — against Q1 FY2025
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Read the filingPublished results
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