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JEF

Jefferies Financial Group JEF

Finance · Brokers & investment banks

$46.12−6.16% dayFri Oct 30 close

Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 30% below its 52-week high.

Outside our quality screen. No fair value estimate for now: there isn’t enough data.

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Fair value est.: n/a
Market Value: $45.41price +2%
Off 52-wk high: −30%
Risk vs market: Highbeta 1.62

4 bullish · 5 bearish See why

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Covered for reference — doesn’t pass our quality screen (market cap $11.3B, under our $20B floor; ROE under 12% and ROIC under 10%). We show its price, Market Value and DCF, but it never appears in Dips, Top Picks or reversal signals. The screen

Key levels

Every level vs today’s $46.12

52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$36.02−21.9%
Market Valueavg paid since Sep 28$45.41−1.5%
PriceFri Oct 30 close$46.12you are here
52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$66.26+43.7%

Fair value estimate

No estimate for JEF: Trailing net income not tagged in SEC XBRL data. We’d rather show nothing than a made-up number.

Risk vs market

How risk vs market is measured

One year of daily returns (Oct 30 to Oct 30, 252 sessions). Beta = how much JEF moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.

High

Swings much more than the market, and its own price swings are 3.1× the S&P 500’s.

Beta vs S&P 500: 1.62
Volatility: 40% vs 13% SPY
Correlation SPY: 0.52
Correlation QQQ: 0.40

Bull vs bear

Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.

Top bullish points 4 of 5

Cash returnsDividend yield of 3.3% ($370M paid over 12 months, 42% of earnings).
GrowthSales grew 13% to $12.2B over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before (SEC filings).
ValuationPrice / book of 1.1×, below the 1.8× median for the 143 Finance companies we cover.
GrowthSales grew 15% a year over the last three fiscal years, above the 9.3% median for the 144 Finance companies we cover.

Top bearish points 5 of 5

ProfitabilityNet margin of 7.3%, below the 21% median for the 142 Finance companies we cover.
GrowthDiluted EPS fell 5.4% in the last fiscal year, below the 17% median for the 137 Finance companies we cover.
ProfitabilityReturn on equity of 8.4%, below the 13% median for the 143 Finance companies we cover.
Cash returnsShare count up 0.4% over 12 months, above the −2.5% median for the 117 Finance companies we cover.
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: ROE under 12% and ROIC under 10%.

Who’s talking about it

Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on Jefferies Financial Group in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.

No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 1, 9:09 PM ET.

Compare with peers

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All fundamentals

P/E 12.7 · ROE 8% · Sales +13%

Valuation

P/E: 12.7×Finance median 13.5×
Price / FCF: n/acash flow isn't a clean measure for a lender
FCF yield: n/acash flow isn't a clean measure for a lender
EV / EBITDA: n/anot meaningful for a lender
Price / sales: 0.93×
Price / book: 1.05×
Market cap: $11.3Blisted
Enterprise value: $12.9B

Growth

Revenue, 12 months: $12.2B
Sales growth, 12 months: +13.5%vs the 12 months before
Sales growth, 3 yrs: +14.8%/yrfrom FY2022
Diluted EPS, 12 months: n/anot reported in its SEC filings
EPS growth, last FY: −5.4%
Net income, 12 months: $888M
Net income growth: +37%12 months vs before

Profitability

Gross margin: n/anot meaningful for a lender
Operating margin: n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Net margin: 7.3%
FCF margin: 34.5%
Return on equity: 8%
Return on invested capital: n/anot meaningful for a lender

Balance sheet

Cash & short-term inv.: $16.9B
Total debt: $18.5B
Net cash: n/anot meaningful for a lender
Debt / equity: n/adeposits/float make debt/equity not comparable for a lender
Interest coverage: n/anot meaningful for a lender

Cash flow & returns

Free cash flow, 12 months: $4.2B
FCF growth, 12 months: n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Dividend yield: 3.27%$370M paid
Payout ratio: 42%
Buybacks, 12 months: $440M3.9% of market cap
Share count, 1 year: +0.4%diluted shares vs a year ago
Stock-based comp: $116M

Trailing 12 months to Aug 31, 2026; balance sheet at Aug 31, 2026. From Jefferies Financial Group’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.

Valuation details

MV $45.41

How

Market ValueAverage paid since the Sep 28 filing, 24 trading days

$45.41price +2%

Fair value estimaten/a — Financials model: Trailing net income not tagged in SEC XBRL data

n/a

FCF valueNot meaningful for banks and insurers

n/a

Setup & signals

No setup armed

All setups

No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.

Momentum & 52-week range

RSI 49 · 5 days +3.0%

$46.12nowMV

52-wk low $36.02high $66.26

Off 52-wk high−30.4%

5 days+3.0%

vs 50-day avg−4.5%

vs 200-day avg−9.4%

RSI (14)49

Market cap$11B

The business

Sales +8%

Return on equity9%
Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+8%

Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.

JEF is outside our quality screen

One text when a published rule fires on one of the 333 quality companies we track: the ticker, the price, the stop and a link to the numbers. Nothing else.