Jefferies Financial Group is a capital markets business based in the US. Jefferies Financial Group shares (JEF) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $49.27 – an increase of 5.28% over the previous week. Jefferies Financial Group employs 7,701 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $6.9 billion.
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| Latest market close | $49.27 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $39.28 - $82.21 |
| 50-day moving average | $55.33 |
| 200-day moving average | $64.08 |
| Wall St. target price | $57.00 |
| PE ratio | 16.4789 |
| Dividend yield | $1.4 (3.42%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $2.84 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $49.27 from 2025-05-02
| 1 week (2025-04-25) | 5.28% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-04-04) | 14.21% |
| 3 months (2025-02-04) | -34.07% |
| 6 months (2024-11-04) | -22.81% |
| 1 year (2024-05-03) | 9.83% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-05-03) | 72.13% |
| 3 years (2022-05-03) | 91.92% |
| 5 years (2020-05-01) | 401.77% |
Valuing Jefferies Financial Group stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Jefferies Financial Group's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Jefferies Financial Group's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 16x. In other words, Jefferies Financial Group shares trade at around 16x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Jefferies Financial Group's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $2.5 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Jefferies Financial Group's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $6.9 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 9.48% |
| Gross profit TTM | $5.4 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 1.04% |
| Return on equity TTM | 6.8% |
| Profit margin | 10.54% |
| Book value | $49.48 |
| Market Capitalization | $9.7 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like Jefferies Financial Group.
When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.
Total ESG risk: 31.53
Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and Jefferies Financial Group's overall score of 31.53 (as at 12/31/2018) is pretty weak – landing it in it in the 65th percentile of companies rated in the same sector.
ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like Jefferies Financial Group is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).
Environmental score: 0.14/100
Social score: 12.09/100
Governance score: 9.79/100
Controversy score: 2/5
ESG scores also evaluate any incidences of controversy that a company has been involved in. Jefferies Financial Group scored a 2 out of 5 for controversy – the second-highest score possible, reflecting that Jefferies Financial Group has, for the most part, managed to keep its nose clean.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc was last rated for ESG on: 2019-01-01.
| Total ESG score | 31.53 |
|---|---|
| Total ESG percentile | 65.02 |
| Environmental score | 0.14 |
| Social score | 12.09 |
| Governance score | 9.79 |
| Level of controversy | 2 |
Dividend payout ratio: 51.51% of net profits
Recently Jefferies Financial Group has paid out, on average, around 100% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Jefferies Financial Group shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Jefferies Financial Group's case, that would currently equate to about $1.4 per share.
Jefferies Financial Group's payout ratio would broadly be considered high, and as such this stock could appeal to those looking to generate an income. Bear in mind however that companies should normally also look to re-invest a decent amount of net profits to ensure future growth.
Jefferies Financial Group's most recent dividend payout was on 28 May 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 18 May 2025 (the "ex-dividend date").
Jefferies Financial Group's shares were split on a 1046:1000 basis on 16 January 2023 . So if you had owned 1000 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1046 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Jefferies Financial Group shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 4.4% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Jefferies Financial Group shares which in turn could have impacted Jefferies Financial Group's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Jefferies Financial Group's shares have ranged in value from as little as $39.28 up to $82.2135. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Jefferies Financial Group's is 1.267. This would suggest that Jefferies Financial Group's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Jefferies Financial Group Inc. operates as an investment banking and capital markets firm in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific. The company operates in two segments, Investment Banking and Capital Markets, and Asset Management. It provides investment banking, advisory services with respect to mergers or acquisitions, debt financing, restructurings or recapitalizations, and private capital advisory transactions; underwriting and placement services related to corporate debt, municipal debts, mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities, equity and equity-linked securities, and loan syndication services; and corporate lending services. The company also offers financing, securities lending, and other prime brokerage services; equities research, sales, and trading services; wealth management services; and online foreign exchange trading services. In addition, it provides investment grade distressed debt securities, U. S.
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