B. Riley Financial Inc (NASDAQ: RILY) Stock: A Game-Changer?

In today’s recent session, 0.77 million shares of the B. Riley Financial Inc (NASDAQ:RILY) have been traded, and its beta is 1.25. Most recently the company’s share price was $4.53, and it changed around $0.48 or 11.80% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $138.08M. RILY at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $40.09, offering almost -784.99% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $2.73, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 39.74% since then. We note from B. Riley Financial Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 0.61 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 2.06 million.

B. Riley Financial Inc (NASDAQ:RILY) trade information

Instantly RILY has been showing a green trend so far today with a performance of 11.80% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 4.48 on recent trading daydecreased the stock’s daily price by -1.12%. The company’s shares are currently down -1.36% year-to-date, but still up 5.79% over the last five days. On the other hand, B. Riley Financial Inc (NASDAQ:RILY) is 8.84% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 7.63 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 1.67 day(s).

RILY Dividends

B. Riley Financial Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2011-Aug-14. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 11.04 percent and its annual dividend per share was 0.50. It is important to note, however, that the 11.04% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 10.94 per year.

B. Riley Financial Inc (NASDAQ:RILY)’s Major holders

Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 46.61% of B. Riley Financial Inc shares, and 25.69% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 48.12%. B. Riley Financial Inc stock is held by 141.0 institutions, with BLACKROCK INC. being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 9.243% of the shares, which is about 2.81 million shares worth $49.49 million.

SUSQUEHANNA INTERNATIONAL GROUP, LLP, with 5.2968% or 1.59 million shares worth $28.02 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.

iShares Russell 2000 ETF and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Jan 31, 2025. The former held 639.48 shares worth $2.84 million, making up 2.10% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held roughly 524.44 shares worth around $2.33 million, which represents about 1.72% of the total shares outstanding.