In recent trading session, Jefferies Financial Group Inc (NYSE:JEF) saw 0.96 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 1.45. Company’s recent per share price level of $54.62 trading at -$1.3 or -2.32% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $11.27B. That most recent trading price of JEF’s stock is at a discount of -51.37% from its 52-week high price of $82.68 and is indicating a premium of 28.08% from its 52-week low price of $39.28. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 1.94 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 1.92 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Jefferies Financial Group Inc (JEF), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 2.40. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 3 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 1 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 2 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc (NYSE:JEF) trade information
Upright in the red during last session for losing -2.32%, in the last five days JEF remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Thursday, 06/26/25 when the stock touched $54.62 price level, adding 3.4% to its value on the day. Jefferies Financial Group Inc’s shares saw a change of 17.87% in year-to-date performance and have moved 2.63% in past 5-day. Jefferies Financial Group Inc (NYSE:JEF) showed a performance of 9.77% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 4.06 million shares which calculate 2.39 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 81 to the stock, which implies a rise of 32.57% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 75 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 81. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -37.31% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -37.31% for stock’s current value.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of -0.32% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around -19.18% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 23.45%.
JEF Dividends
Jefferies Financial Group Inc is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Jun-25 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 2.75%, the share has a forward dividend of 1.50 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 2.82%.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc (NYSE:JEF)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 25.97% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 66.51 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 89.84%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 66.51% institutions for Jefferies Financial Group Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. BLACKROCK INC. is the top institutional holder at JEF for having 16.04 million shares of worth $797.99 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 7.2904 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 15.69 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 7.1344 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $780.91 million.
On the other hand, ALLSPRING FUNDS TRUST-Allspring Special Mid Cap Value Fund and iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Apr 30, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 5.56 shares of worth $307.32 million or 2.70% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 5.27 shares on Apr 30, 2025 , making its stake of worth around $291.26 million in the company or a holder of 2.56% of company’s stock.
