Jefferies Financial Group Inc (NYSE: JEF) on Tuesday, plunged -1.00% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $56.88. Within the past 52 weeks, JEF’s price has moved between $31.38 and $59.97.
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During the last 5-year period, the sales growth of Financial Sector giant was 9.89%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 174.85%. With a float of $161.77 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $210.63 million.
Let’s determine the extent of company efficiency that accounts for 7564 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 83.67%, operating margin of 37.29%, and the pretax margin is 8.21%.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc (JEF) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock
Observing investor behavior towards Capital Markets industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Jefferies Financial Group Inc is 21.28%, while institutional ownership is 69.61%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Aug 15 ’24, was worth 5,413,000. Before that another transaction happened on May 14 ’24, when Company’s President sold 165,396 for $46.25, making the entire transaction worth $7,649,433. This insider now owns 2,425,954 shares in total.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc (JEF) Recent Fiscal highlights
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 174.85% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 18.00% during the next five years compared to -1.01% drop over the previous five years of trading.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc (NYSE: JEF) Trading Performance Indicators
Jefferies Financial Group Inc (JEF) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.30.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.82, a number that is poised to hit 0.80 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 4.36 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Jefferies Financial Group Inc (JEF)
Looking closely at Jefferies Financial Group Inc (NYSE: JEF), its last 5-days average volume was 1.21 million, which is a jump from its year-to-date volume of 1.15 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 15.81%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.40.
During the past 100 days, Jefferies Financial Group Inc’s (JEF) raw stochastic average was set at 80.44%, which indicates a significant increase from 17.94% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 29.22% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 26.71% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $55.65, while its 200-day Moving Average is $45.63. However, in the short run, Jefferies Financial Group Inc’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $57.03. Second resistance stands at $57.75. The third major resistance level sits at $58.51. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $55.55, it is likely to go to the next support level at $54.79. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $54.07.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc (NYSE: JEF) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 11.57 billion based on 205,491K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 4,700 M and income totals 277,690 K. The company made 1,656 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 159,480 K in sales during its previous quarter.
