SYF Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Synchrony Financial | NYSE:SYF)

Synchrony Financial, originally a spinoff of GE Capital's retail financing business, is the largest provider of private-label credit cards in the United States by both outstanding receivables and purchasing volume. Synchrony partners with other firms to market its credit products in their physical stores as well as on their websites and mobile applications. Synchrony operates through three segments: retail card (private-label and co-branded general-purpose credit cards), payment solutions (promotional financing for large ticket purchases), and CareCredit (financing for elective healthcare procedures).

Synchrony Financial trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol SYF.

As of January 21, 2026, SYF stock price climbed to $77.13 with 3,006,910 million shares trading.

SYF has a beta of 1.67, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. SYF has a correlation of 0.65 to the broad based SPY ETF.

SYF has a market cap of $27.77 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Synchrony Financial reported $5 billion in Revenue and $2.86 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $564 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.65.

In the last 3 years, SYF traded as high as $88.77 and as low as $26.59.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that SYF belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, VO, IVV, SPY.

SYF has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +13.9% while the SPY ETF gained +15.9%. However, in the short term, SYF had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +7.2% vs +2.4% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, SYF shares have been beat by the market, returning -12.8% compared to an SPY return of -0.9%.

SYF support price is $74.47 and resistance is $77.69 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that SYF shares will trade within this expected range on the day.