CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORP
At today's price, CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORP (COF) is priced for 13.0% return on equity. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
Capital One is a credit-card bank in the middle of digesting its Discover acquisition, which makes the trailing numbers nearly useless: a purchase-accounting reserve build crushed reported return on equity to about 2.9% and trailing EPS to $3.92, while first-quarter 2026 adjusted EPS was $4.42. The acquisition is the whole story. It vaulted Capital One into owning a payment network, lifted net interest income 52%, and drove domestic card purchase volume up 40% year over year (8% excluding Disco
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2,017 institutional managers reported holding COF in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 82% of the company; the top 10 hold 36%. 162 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 11.0M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 2% of shares outstanding (2.1 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
COF's share count grew 38.1% over the past five years even with $18.65B spent on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting); the current rate is $1.60 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $3.42B in dividends and $7.94B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at COF over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 31 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
COF's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-28 | -2.0% | -15.5% |
| 2023-11-03 | +3.3% | +24.6% |
| 2024-02-24 | +0.4% | +7.9% |
| 2024-05-03 | -1.8% | -4.5% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
COF's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-15 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-06-09 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-06-08 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-05-15 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-05-08 (items 5.07, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: July 3, 2026
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