Jefferies Financial Group Inc (NYSE:JEF) has a beta value of 1.50 and has seen 0.5 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $9.58B, closed the recent trade at $46.47 per share which meant it gained $3.07 on the day or 7.07% during that session. The JEF stock price is -77.92% off its 52-week high price of $82.68 and 15.47% above the 52-week low of $39.28. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 1.86 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 2.03 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that Jefferies Financial Group Inc (JEF) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 2.00. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 1 out of 3 have rated it as a Hold, with 2 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight. The expected earnings per share for the stock is 0.58.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc (NYSE:JEF) trade information
Sporting 7.07% in the green today, the stock has traded in the green over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the JEF stock price touched $46.47 or saw a rise of 2.29%. Year-to-date, Jefferies Financial Group Inc shares have moved -40.73%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change 5.23%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Jefferies Financial Group Inc (NYSE:JEF) have changed -25.25%. Short interest in the company has seen 2.73 million shares shorted with days to cover at 1.09.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $78, which means that the shares’ value could jump 40.42% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $49.0 while the price target rests at a high of $81.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -74.31% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock gain -5.44% from the levels at last check today..
Jefferies Financial Group Inc (JEF) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have lost -30.07% over the past 6 months. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be -1.53%.
3 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of 1.69B for the current quarter. 3 have an estimated revenue figure of 1.84B for the next ending quarter. Year-ago sales stood 1.66B and 1.68B respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will grow by 1.86% for the current quarter and -1.53% for the next.
If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was -0.32% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest -9.45% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 24.79%.
JEF Dividends
Jefferies Financial Group Inc is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Mar-25 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 1.40 at a share yield of 3.01%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 2.84%.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc (NYSE:JEF)’s Major holders
Insiders own 25.91% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 73.42% with a share float percentage of 99.09%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Jefferies Financial Group Inc having a total of 740.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are BLACKROCK INC. with over 16.04 million shares worth more than $797.99 million. As of 2024-06-30, BLACKROCK INC. held 7.2904% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, with the holding of over 15.69 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $780.91 million and represent 7.1344% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are ALLSPRING FUNDS TRUST-Allspring Special Mid Cap Value Fund and iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF . As of Feb 28, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 2.58% shares in the company for having 5.31 shares of worth $244.18 million while later fund manager owns 5.32 shares of worth $244.47 million as of Mar 31, 2025 , which makes it owner of about 2.58% of company’s outstanding stock.
