Capital One Financial forward PE COF

Share price divided by analysts' consensus earnings for the next twelve months, since 1996.

Today, Oct 23, 2026: 8.8×
10-year median: 9.2×
Against its 10-year history: 44th; percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range: 4.3× to 31.3×
Peer median: 18.6×

Capital One Financial's forward PE is 8.8× as of Oct 23, 2026.

That is below its ten-year median of 9.2×, close to the middle of its last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 4.3× in Oct 2020 to 31.3× in Dec 2019.

The median for 10 credit services stocks of a similar size is 18.6×.

Forward PE over time

median 9.2×

The dashed line is the 10-year median and the shaded band the middle half of its days.

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Year by year

Year	End of year	Low	High
2026 so far	8.8×	8.7×	13.2×
2025	13.2×	9.2×	13.2×
2024	12.0×	9.4×	12.8×
2023	10.0×	6.9×	10.0×
2022	6.6×	5.8×	8.2×
2021	6.9×	5.4×	8.4×
2020	5.9×	4.3×	31.2×
2019	30.9×	7.0×	31.3×
2018	6.5×	6.3×	11.0×
2017	10.4×	8.7×	11.1×
2016	10.8×	7.7×	11.2×
2015	9.5×	9.5×	11.4×
2014	10.6×	9.7×	11.9×
2013	11.3×	8.1×	11.3×
2012	8.8×	7.7×	9.5×
2011	7.3×	6.9×	9.5×
2010	7.4×	6.4×	14.1×
2009	12.7×	7.0×	45.4×
2008	8.6×	6.1×	14.8×
2007	10.4×	10.4×	26.5×

Against its peers

Companies in Financial - Credit Services nearest Capital One Financial's size, closest first, today.

Company	Forward PE
COFCapital One Financial	8.8×
AXPAmerican Express	16.8×
PYPLPayPal	10.3×
MAMastercard	29.3×
SYFSynchrony Financial	7.7×
AFRMAffirm	35.8×
GPNGlobal Payments	5.6×
VVisa	28.2×
SOFISoFi Technologies	20.3×
RBARB Global	n/m
CSGPCostar	n/m
Peer median	18.6×

Where Capital One Financial ranks

What the forward PE tells you

Price divided by what analysts expect the company to earn over the next twelve months. It answers "what am I paying for next year" instead of last year.

Estimates are opinions. When forward PE is far below trailing PE, analysts expect a big jump in earnings. If that jump slips, the stock was not as cheap as it looked.

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Valuation data, not investment advice. Prices as of Oct 23, 2026. Reported figures come from the company's filings with the SEC.