As on Wednesday, Jefferies Financial Group Inc (NYSE: JEF) started slowly as it slid -7.88% to $54.44, before settling in for the price of $59.1 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, JEF posted a 52-week range of $39.28-$82.68.
The company of the Financial sector’s yearbook sales growth during the past 5- year span was recorded -0.32%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was -0.32%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is -2.45%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $206.28 million, simultaneously with a float of $164.02 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $11.23 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $62.89, while the 200-day Moving Average is $60.16.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc (JEF) Ownership Facts and Figures
Another important factor to analyze is how key investors are playing towards the stock of the Capital Markets industry. Jefferies Financial Group Inc’s current insider ownership accounts for 20.49%, in contrast to 70.94% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Nov 06 ’24, this organization’s President sold 393,397 shares at the rate of 72.17, making the entire transaction reach 28,393,256 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 560,507. Preceding that transaction, on Nov 06 ’24, Company’s CEO sold 400,000 for 72.26, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 28,902,360. This particular insider is now the holder of 14,971,288 in total.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc (JEF) Earnings and Revenue Records
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.96 per share during the current fiscal year.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc’s EPS decrease for this current 12-month fiscal period is -2.45% and is forecasted to reach 4.39 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 23.22% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the -0.32% 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). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 1.55. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $18.73, and its Beta score is 1.55. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 1.30. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 24.31.
In the same vein, JEF’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 2.91, a figure that is expected to reach 0.93 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 4.39 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Jefferies Financial Group Inc (JEF)
Through scrutinizing the latest numbers posted by the [Jefferies Financial Group Inc, JEF], it can be observed that its last 5-days Average volume of 3.3 million was better the volume of 1.85 million, it posted the year before. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 1.89% While, its Average True Range was 13.50.
Raw Stochastic average of Jefferies Financial Group Inc (JEF) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 30.13%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 0.84% 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 2.58 that was higher than 1.61 volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
