This year has been tough on regional bank stocks, with borrowing costs soaring and cutting into net interest income. Additionally, higher yields diminished older bonds' value and heightened internal credit risks — just ask the (now defunct) Silicon Valley Bank. These factors and others contribute to a string of poor regional bank performance indicators that, practically speaking, trickle upward across the entire banking and financial sector. The SPDR S&P Bank ETF (NYSEARCA:KBE) is down 3% this year, with fe ...

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (CFG) unveiled a few developments aimed at accelerating growth of its Wealth Management business to attract new high-net-worth clients. The company's CEO, Bruce Van Saun, stated that management wants to have more choices for customers in terms of wealth options. With the bank failures of 2023, it is clear that significant white space exists in the market for a new entrant to fill by delivering best-in-market customer service for Private Banking and Wealth Management clients. H ...

PM Images M&T Bank Corporation (MTB) priced an offering of $750 million worth of new series J non-cumulative preferred stock, offering a fixed dividend rate of 7.5%. The new shares were rated by all four of Moody's, S&P, Fitch, and DBRS, at Baa3, BB+, BBB- and BBB, respectively. The new shares traded temporarily on the OTC under symbol MTDJV before moving to permanent symbol MTB-J on the New York Stock Exchange. Citizens Financial Group (CFG) priced an offering of $400 million worth of new series H non-cumu ...

JHVEPhoto Citizens Financial Group (NYSE:CFG) is a regional bank that has joined its industry peers in struggling to maintain earnings and deposits in an environment of high-interest rates. Back in November, I wrote on the opportunity being presented with the bank’s Series D preferred shares (CFG PR D). These shares will begin floating at a rate of three-month SOFR plus 390 basis points with their next dividend declaration. Based on today’s market pricing, the dividend yield would be just under 8.5%. Fo ...

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 10-Q (Exact name of the registrant as specified in its charter) Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. ☑ Yes ☐ No There were 455,019,971 shares of the registrant's common stock ($0.01 par value) outstanding on Apr ...

JHVEPhoto Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE:CFG), incorporated in 1984 and headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, is a bank holding company that through its subsidiaries offers banking products and services to individuals and businesses in 14 states. This business has been profitable for a long time and has also been steadily growing over the years. Given its capital position and the attractive but safe dividend yield, I believe that one can practically get paid to wait until the market better ap ...

Citizens Financial Group (CFG) has reported first-quarter 2024 earnings per share (EPS) of 65 cents, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 75 cents. The bottom line declined from $1 in the year-ago quarter.Underlying EPS for the first quarter of 2024 was 79 cents, down from $1.10 reported in the year-ago quarter.Results were adversely affected by lower net interest income (NII) and a rise in provisions and operating expenses. However, an increase in non-interest income and lower allowance for credit losse ...

Other (1) 3.6 2 Total C&I(2) $ 44.0 31 % CRE Multi-family $ 9.5 7 % Office 5.7 4 Credit tenant lease and life sciences(3) 2.3 2 Other general office 3.4 2 Industrial 4.1 3 Retail 3.4 2 Co-op 1.8 1 Data Center 0.7 — Hospitality 0.6 — Other (1) 3.1 3 Total CRE $ 28.9 20 % Total Commercial loans & leases $ 72.8 51 % Total CFG $ 143.2 Diverse and granular portfolio Commercial portfolio risk ratings(4) $s in billions 58% 57% 56% 25%17% 17% 14%19% 20% 3% 7% 7% 4Q19 4Q23 1Q24 B- and lower B+ to B BB+ to BB- AAA+ t ...

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE:CFG) Q1 2024 Earnings Conference Call April 17, 2024 9:00 AM ET Company Participants Kristin Silberberg - Executive Vice President, Investor Relations Bruce Van Saun - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Woods - Chief Financial Officer Brendan Coughlin - Head, Consumer Banking Don McCree - Head, Commercial Banking Conference Call Participants Ryan Nash - Goldman Sachs Scott Siefers - Piper Sandler John Pancari - Evercore Peter Winter - D.A. Davidson Ken Usdin - Jef ...

For the quarter ended March 2024, Citizens Financial Group (CFG) reported revenue of $1.96 billion, down 7.9% over the same period last year. EPS came in at $0.65, compared to $1.00 in the year-ago quarter.The reported revenue represents a surprise of -0.40% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.97 billion. With the consensus EPS estimate being $0.75, the EPS surprise was -13.33%.While investors closely watch year-over-year changes in headline numbers -- revenue and earnings -- and how they compare to Wal ...