Piper Sandler Remains a Hold on Regions Financial (RF)
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In addition to Piper Sandler, Regions Financial also received a Hold from Bank of America Securities's Ebrahim Poonawala in a report issued on July 13. However, yesterday, TR | OpenAI – 4o reiterated a Buy rating on Regions Financial (NYSE: RF).
The company has a one-year high of $27.96 and a one-year low of $17.74. Currently, Regions Financial has an average volume of 8.51M.
Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 21 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of RF in relation to earlier this year. Most recently, in May 2025, Brian R Willman, the SEVP of RF sold 8,185.00 shares for a total of $174,831.60.
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