Synchrony Financial

SYF Financial Credit Services

Synchrony Financial’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $23.1 billion, down 4.32% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+0.60%
EPS
−6.23%
Free cash flow
−5.27%
Total debt
+18.0%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

75.03 0.96 +1.30%
Market cap
$23.1B
P/E
7.7×
Fwd P/E
7.9×
Dividend yield
1.72%
F-score
8/9
Altman Z
n/a
Beneish M
n/a
Dividend safety
n/a

Synchrony Financial (SYF) Return on assets

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Synchrony Financial's return on assets over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 2.71%, down 0.2 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (2.91%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 1.34% (fiscal 2020) to 4.36% (fiscal 2021); the current reading is higher than 73% of that period. That is above the Credit Services industry median of 1.94% and above the Financial sector median of 1.15%.

Return on assets, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Return on assets Change (points)
FY2025 2.91% 0.02
FY2024 2.89% 0.91
FY2023 1.98% (0.99)
FY2022 2.97% (1.39)
FY2021 4.36% 3.02
FY2020 1.34% (2.20)
FY2019 3.54% 0.79
FY2018 2.75% 0.67
FY2017 2.08% (0.50)
FY2016 2.58% (0.19)

Against its own ten years

Low 1.34% High 4.36%
Ten-year median 2.77%
Current reading's percentile 73

Return on assets against peers

Company Return on assets
AFRM Affirm Holdings, Inc. compare 14.4%
FCFS FirstCash Holdings, Inc. compare 7.57%
PYPL PayPal Holdings, Inc. compare 5.86%
CACC Credit Acceptance Corporation compare 3.85%
OMF OneMain Holdings, Inc. compare 2.75%
SYF Synchrony Financial 2.71%
SOFI SoFi Technologies, Inc. compare 1.30%
ALLY Ally Financial Inc. compare 0.69%
KLAR Klarna Group plc compare −0.77%
Credit Services industry median 1.94%
Financial sector median 1.15%
Market median 0.00%

What Return on assets is

ROA tells an investor how much profit a company earns for shareholders from the assets it uses to run its business.

Annual: Net Income Allotted to Shareholders ÷ Average Assets; TTM: Net Income Allotted to Shareholders ÷ Average Assets (latest quarter)

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