Jefferies Financial Group Inc (NYSE: JEF) on Monday, soared 3.55% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $71.50. Within the past 52 weeks, JEF’s price has moved between $33.16 and $72.76.
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A company in the Financial sector has jumped its sales by 9.89% annually for the last half of the decade. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 169.02%. With a float of $153.81 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $210.63 million.
In an organization with 7564 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 83.39%, operating margin of 42.49%, and the pretax margin is 8.08%.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc (JEF) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Observing investor behavior towards Capital Markets industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Jefferies Financial Group Inc is 25.15%, while institutional ownership is 65.62%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 06 ’24, was worth 28,393,256. In this transaction President of this company sold 393,397 shares at a rate of $72.17, taking the stock ownership to the 560,507 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 06 ’24, when Company’s CEO sold 400,000 for $72.26, making the entire transaction worth $28,902,360. This insider now owns 14,971,288 shares in total.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc (JEF) Latest Financial update
As on 8/31/2024, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported 0.29 earnings per share (EPS) for the period falling under the consensus outlook (set at 0.34) by -0.05. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.17 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 169.02% 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 1.61. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 23.51.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.34, a number that is poised to hit 0.85 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 4.46 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Jefferies Financial Group Inc (JEF)
Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 2.35 million. That was better than the volume of 1.26 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 82.43%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.90.
During the past 100 days, Jefferies Financial Group Inc’s (JEF) raw stochastic average was set at 94.22%, which indicates a significant increase from 85.71% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 48.42% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 30.27% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $63.04, while its 200-day Moving Average is $51.20. However, in the short run, Jefferies Financial Group Inc’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $75.50. Second resistance stands at $76.96. The third major resistance level sits at $78.11. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $72.89, it is likely to go to the next support level at $71.74. The third support level lies at $70.28 if the price breaches the second support level.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc (NYSE: JEF) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 15.45 billion based on 205,499K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 4,700 M and income totals 277,690 K. The company made 1,684 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 187,910 K in sales during its previous quarter.
