On Tuesday, Jefferies Financial Group Inc (NYSE: JEF) was -3.13% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $81.75. A 52-week range for JEF has been $37.95 – $82.04.
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Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Financial sector was 11.41%. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 173.95%. With a float of $153.74 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $205.50 million.
Considering the fact that the conglomerate employs 7564 people, you should pay attention to its efficiency factor. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 83.39%, operating margin of 41.87%, and the pretax margin is 8.08%.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc (JEF) Insider Activity
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Jefferies Financial Group Inc stocks. The insider ownership of Jefferies Financial Group Inc is 25.19%, while institutional ownership is 67.75%. 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) Earnings and Forecasts
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.1 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 173.95% 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
You can see what Jefferies Financial Group Inc (JEF) is doing with its current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.70. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 24.77.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.34, a number that is poised to hit 0.91 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 4.62 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Jefferies Financial Group Inc (JEF)
Compared to the last year’s volume of 1.27 million, its volume of 1.23 million showed lagged in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 72.48%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.81.
During the past 100 days, Jefferies Financial Group Inc’s (JEF) raw stochastic average was set at 90.90%, which indicates a significant increase from 48.09% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 21.56% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 28.59% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $71.83, while its 200-day Moving Average is $55.78. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $80.34 in the near term. At $81.50, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $82.26. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $78.42, it is likely to go to the next support level at $77.66. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $76.50.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc (NYSE: JEF) Key Stats
There are 205,499K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 16.27 billion. As of now, sales total 4,700 M while income totals 277,690 K. Its latest quarter income was 1,684 M while its last quarter net income were 187,910 K.
