Capital One Financial (COF)☆

Capital One is a major U.S. consumer bank and credit-card issuer. It is a member of the S&P 500 and is classified in the Financials sector — banks, insurers and capital-markets firms at the center of the economy.

Capital One Financial trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol COF. As of the most recent market data, the stock was priced around $214.51, down 0.54% on the session, giving Capital One Financial a market capitalization of roughly $131.60B.

Over the past 52 weeks, COF has traded between $174.24 and $259.64. Shares are valued at a trailing price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of about 11.9, a common gauge of how richly the market prices the company's earnings. Capital One Financial also pays a dividend, currently yielding around 1.48%.

As one of the larger companies in the Financials sector, Capital One Financial is closely followed by investors and often moves with broader trends across banks, insurers and capital-markets firms at the center of the economy. Traders watch COF for earnings reports, analyst rating changes, and headlines that can shift sentiment — each of which is summarized on this page as it breaks.

Because the S&P 500 is weighted by market value, Capital One Financial's size means its share-price moves can also nudge the index as a whole, making COF a stock that even index investors pay attention to.