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Valued at a market cap of $18.2 billion, Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (CFG) operates as a bank holding company that provides retail and commercial banking products and services to individuals, small businesses, middle-market companies, large corporations, and institutions in the United States.
CFG is expected to announce its fiscal Q1 earnings on Wednesday, Apr. 16. Ahead of this event, analysts expect CFG to report a profit of $0.75 per share, up 15.4% from $0.65 per share in the year-ago quarter. The company has missed Wall Street's bottom-line estimates in two of the past four quarters while meeting or beating on other two occasions. Driven by solid demand, it reported an EPS of $0.85 in the previous quarter, which exceeded the consensus estimate by 2.4%.