Jefferies Financial Group Inc (NYSE: JEF) started the day on Wednesday, with a price increase of 0.02% at $44.60, before settling in for the price of $44.59 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, JEF posted a 52-week range of $28.81-$47.39.
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It was noted that the giant of the Financial sector posted annual sales growth of 9.89% over the last 5 years. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was -1.01%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 178.79%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $210.63 million, simultaneously with a float of $155.84 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $9.46 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $42.95, while the 200-day Moving Average is $38.18.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc (JEF) Ownership Facts and Figures
Now let’s turn our focus to how large-scale investors are working with this stock of the Capital Markets Industry. Jefferies Financial Group Inc’s current insider ownership accounts for 26.51%, in contrast to 63.77% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Apr 24 ’24, this organization’s CEO sold 1,500,000 shares at the rate of 43.50, making the entire transaction reach 65,250,900 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 15,314,150. Preceding that transaction, on Aug 04 ’23, Company’s Chairman of the Board sold 134,217 for 35.79, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 4,803,224. This particular insider is now the holder of 15,744,184 in total.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc (JEF) Earnings and Revenue Records
Jefferies Financial Group Inc’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 178.79% and is forecasted to reach 4.11 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 18.00% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the -1.01% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc (NYSE: JEF) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Jefferies Financial Group Inc (JEF). The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 0.97. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $36.46, and its Beta score is 1.35. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 1.13. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 181.94.
In the same vein, JEF’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 1.22, a figure that is expected to reach 0.72 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 4.11 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Jefferies Financial Group Inc (JEF)
If we take a close look at the recent performances of Jefferies Financial Group Inc (NYSE: JEF), its last 5-days Average volume was 1.43 million that shows progress from its year to date volume of 1.07 million. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 92.64% While, its Average True Range was 1.00.
Raw Stochastic average of Jefferies Financial Group Inc (JEF) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 77.39%, which indicates a major fall in contrast to 98.48% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 24.56% that was higher than 21.92% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
