Capital One Financial Corporation

COF · Financial Services

$199.26
-0.07% today

What a holder would want to know before buying COF: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.

Where the price sits
Low $176.10 · Mar 2026High $257.94 · Jan 2026

Today’s price is 13% above the lowest point of the past year and 23% below the highest.

Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 33% of days and more expensive on 67%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 90% of days.

3% below its average price of the last 200 trading days.

How bad does it get

Fell 20% or more 5 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 60%; the longest took 3.2 years to get back to its peak. 4 of 5 have recovered so far.

It is in one now: 23% below the Jan 2026 peak.

Jan 2026
−32%not back yet
Feb 2025
−28%back in 4 months
Aug 2021
−52%back in 3.2 years
Jan 2020
−60%back in 11 months
Jan 2018
−33%back in 24 months
What you own

Capital One Financial Corporation · Financial Services · Credit Services · a large company worth $122.24B

Capital One Financial Corporation operates as the financial services holding company for the Capital One, National Association, which engages in the provision of various financial products and services in the United…

Is it making money?
2022
2023
2024
2025

revenue profit

Sales of $53.43B in 2025, with $2.45B of profit. Sales grew in 3 of the last 3 years.

Keeps about 22 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.

Is it healthy?
Cash
$56.64B
Debt
$48.99B

Holds more cash ($56.64B) than debt ($48.99B).

Is it expensive?

You pay $13 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $8 for every $1 of profit expected next year.

A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.

Pays 1.60% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Aug 17.

What others are doing

24 analysts: 19 say buy, 5 hold, 0 sell. Their average 12-month target is $254.77 (range $219.00–$290.00).

Insiders made 0 purchases and 19 sales in the last 6 months. Executives routinely sell shares they were paid in; buying with their own money is the rarer signal.

Free data from Yahoo Finance, refreshed daily. This is evidence about the business and its price history, not a recommendation.

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