Jefferies Financial Group Inc (NYSE: JEF) on Monday, plunged -3.02% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $76.89. Within the past 52 weeks, JEF’s price has moved between $39.58 and $82.68.
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A company in the Financial sector has jumped its sales by 18.51% annually for the last half of the decade. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 49.00%. With a float of $154.44 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $205.50 million.
In an organization with 7822 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 75.27%, operating margin of 30.32%, and the pretax margin is 9.42%.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc (JEF) Insider Updates
Observing investor behavior towards Capital Markets industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Jefferies Financial Group Inc is 25.06%, while institutional ownership is 67.47%. 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) Performance Highlights and Predictions
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 49.00% per share during the next fiscal year.
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 1.45. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 174.80.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.98, a number that is poised to hit 1.10 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 5.90 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 1.12 million. That was inferior than the volume of 1.74 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 58.67%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 2.33.
During the past 100 days, Jefferies Financial Group Inc’s (JEF) raw stochastic average was set at 70.32%, which indicates a significant increase from 47.63% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 29.30% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 33.44% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $77.47, while its 200-day Moving Average is $60.73. However, in the short run, Jefferies Financial Group Inc’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $75.46. Second resistance stands at $76.35. The third major resistance level sits at $77.54. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $73.38, it is likely to go to the next support level at $72.19. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $71.30.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc (NYSE: JEF) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 15.37 billion based on 206,095K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 7,035 M and income totals 743,380 K. The company made 1,957 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 232,160 K in sales during its previous quarter.
