Truist Financial Corp. (NYSE:TFC) reported upbeat second-quarter earnings on Friday.The bank earned $1.23 per diluted share in the second quarter, clearing the analyst consensus of $1.08 by nearly 14% and representing a 35% improvement from the 90 cents per share delivered in the same period last year. Revenue of $5.27 billion edged past the $5.24 billion consensus estimate and came in 4.67% above the year-ago figure.For the third quarter Truist is guiding for revenue of approximately $5.35 billion, just below the analyst estimate of $5.38 billion. For the full year the bank widened its revenue outlook to a range of $21.22 billion to $21.32 billion, bracketing the prior consensus estimate of $21.28 billion.Truist Financial shares gained 0.2% to $52.60 in pre-market trading.These analysts made changes to their price targets on Truist Financial following earnings announcement.
JP Morgan analyst Vivek Juneja downgraded the stock from Neutral to Underweight and lowered the price target from $53.5 to $53.
Baird analyst David George maintained the stock with a Neutral and raised the price target from $55 to $56.
