JEF Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Jefferies Financial Group | NYSE:JEF)

Jefferies Financial Group Inc is a diversified financial services company. It has two reportable segments; Investment Banking and Capital Markets which is also the majority revenue generating segment, includes securities, commodities, corporate lending, futures and foreign exchange capital markets activities and its investment banking business, which provides underwriting and financial advisory services to clients across different sectors. The Asset Management reportable business segment provides alternative investment management services to investors in the U.S. and overseas and generates investment income from capital invested in and managed by it or its affiliated asset managers.

Jefferies Financial Group trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol JEF.

As of January 6, 2025, JEF stock price climbed to $81.31 with 2,262,725 million shares trading.

JEF has a beta of 1.07, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. JEF has a correlation of 0.27 to the broad based SPY ETF.

JEF has a market cap of $16.71 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Jefferies Financial Group reported $2 billion in Revenue and $.78 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-26 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.01.

In the last 3 years, JEF traded as high as $82.68 and as low as $25.88.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that JEF belongs to (by Net Assets): IJH, VTI, VB, VBR, VXF.

JEF has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +107.2% while the SPY ETF gained +28.5%. JEF has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +30.6% and +6.7%, respectively, while the SPY returned +5.2% and +0.7%, respectively.

JEF support price is $79.54 and resistance is $82.46 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that JEF shares will trade within this expected range on the day.