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Capital One Financial COF Price / earnings

Price / earnings at other companies

American Express logo
American ExpressAXP
18.5×+0.1×
JPMorgan Chase logo
JPMorgan ChaseJPM
13.5×+2.0×
Bank of America logo
Bank of AmericaBAC
11×-0.5×
Wells Fargo & Company logo
Wells Fargo & CompanyWFC
11.3×-0.4×
Citigroup logo
CitigroupC
12.4×+2.4×
Synchrony Financial logo
Synchrony FinancialSYF
6.6×-0.4×

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$15.2B+52.3%
Net income$2.2B+54.8%
EPS (diluted)$3.34-3.2%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$79.3B+61.9%
Total debt$53.5B+26.4%
Total equity$112.26B+76.7%
Total assets$682.91B+38.4%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$6.0B+29.1%
CapEx$553.0M+58.9%
Free cash flow$5.5B+26.7%

Valuation

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Market cap$125B+65.2%
Enterprise value$99.26B+41.4%
P/S2.1×+0.2×

Profitability

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Net margin5.5%-6.8pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity3.7%-4.4pp
Debt / equity0.5×-0.2×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Capital One Financial’s reported figures.

Based on the most recent quarter.

The official record: Capital One Financial’s 10-Q, filed May 7, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Capital One Financial's price / earnings?
Capital One Financial (COF) reported price / earnings of 35.2× in Q1 2026.
How has Capital One Financial's price / earnings changed year-over-year?
Capital One Financial's price / earnings increased by 149.9% year-over-year, from 14.1× to 35.2×.
What is the long-term trend for Capital One Financial's price / earnings?
Over 3 years (2021 to 2024), Capital One Financial's price / earnings has grown at a 29.2% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 23.4× to 50.4×.
What does price / earnings mean?
How many dollars investors pay for each dollar of the company's annual profit.
How do you interpret price / earnings?
Lower can mean cheaper — or that the market expects earnings to fall. High multiples embed growth expectations. Meaningless when earnings are negative, so it is suppressed there.
How does price / earnings compare across companies?
Compare against the company's own history and sector peers, not across sectors with different growth and risk profiles.