
Consumer financial services company Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF) will be reporting results this Tuesday morning. Here’s what investors should know.
Synchrony Financial missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $3.70 billion, flat year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a miss of analysts’ net interest margin estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Synchrony Financial’s revenue to grow 2.7% year on year, a reversal from the 1.8% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year.

Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business will stay the course heading into earnings. Synchrony Financial has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
With Synchrony Financial being the first among its peers to report earnings this season, we don’t have anywhere else to look to get a hint at how this quarter will unfold for consumer finance stocks. However, there has been positive investor sentiment in the segment, with share prices up 6.9% on average over the last month. Synchrony Financial is down 3.3% during the same time .
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