Ranked #331 of 399 · scores higher than 17% of peers · safety percentile 17
Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the safety percentile (higher = safer; 67+ earns the lower-risk grade)
40 peers with a safety percentile of 10–19, including SYF · Click a bar to see the companies
Why “Higher relative risk”?
The measures below combine into a safety percentile of 17 among Financial Services companies. It is relative: 67 or more is lower relative risk, 33–66 moderate, below 33 higher.
Mainly because of its beta, which is weaker than most Financial Services peers.
▼a share price that has swung more with the market: weaker than 87% of peers. Beta: 1.31 vs peer median 0.70
●Debt / equity is close to the peer norm. Debt / equity: 0.97× vs peer median 0.57×
●Current ratio is not reported, so it is left out of the score.
Risk is relative to the sector, not a bankruptcy probability. Banks and brokers carry high leverage by design, and share buybacks can shrink equity and current assets, which raises debt/equity on paper.
Metric by metric
Position: dot = SYF, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.
Metric
SYF
Peer median
Better than
Position among peers
Weight
Debt / equityLower is better · 349 reported
Not reported
0.57×
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33%
BetaLower is better · 394 reported
1.31
0.67
13%
33%
Current ratioHigher is better · 372 reported
Not reported
2.04×
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33%
A metric that is not reported is left out of the score; the other weights are rescaled.
Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score
