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Synchrony (SYF) Launches Outdoors Credit Card for Powersports

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Synchrony Financial’s (SYF - Free Report) new Outdoors Credit Card will help powersports enthusiasts to finance aftermarket purchases. The card will be available to more than 5,000 dealers in powersports space in the United States. The launch aims to provide financing to powersports fans for purchasing products like parts, accessories, garments and services in an easy and affordable manner.

As SYF ventures into the aftermarket powersports products space, dealers and consumers benefit from this move. Per recent research by Synchrony, around 66.7% of the total dealers believed that a financing option for aftermarket purchases could help boost their sales. Hence, dealers would experience customer retention through increased loyalty, new customers and higher sales. Customers would also experience a safe and enjoyable riding journey when a promotional finance option is available.

The new Outdoors Credit Card will not only increase lifestyle’s contribution to total interest and fees for SYF, which stood at 5% in 2022, but also increase market penetration and further enhance Synchrony’s value proposition. Synchrony is well prepared to leverage the growing powersports market, which is expected to cross $131 billion by 2028.

The Synchrony Outdoors Credit Card would benefit from the omni-channel technology the company possesses, by which it can offer and deliver instantly using its multiple channels such as in-store, online and mobile.

The new credit card would provide six months of promotional financing on purchases of a minimum of $199. Synchrony’s digital capabilities would also help customers make convenient monthly payments with no annual fee, along with easy handling of their accounts online. Multiple options like With Payments, Deferred Interest and Fix Pay would help meet people’s budgets and requirements.

This initiative would help Synchrony solidify its position in the powersports space. It would further add to Synchrony’s existing offerings, like CareCredit, Synchrony Home and Synchrony Car Care.

Price Performance

Shares of Synchrony Financial have gained 1.1% year to date compared with the industry’srise of 9.5%.

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Synchrony Financial currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).

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