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

Jefferies Financial Group is a full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that was founded in 1962. After nearly 30 years of focusing on institutional trading services, it entered the investment banking industry in the early 1990s, which ultimately grew into the core business. In 2013, Jefferies merged with Leucadia, a manufacturing-focused holding company. Since merging, Jefferies became the bedrock of the business as the bulk of the legacy portfolio was sold off and the parent company was renamed to match the subsidiary. Within the investment banking landscape, Jefferies predominately serves the North American middle market and has captured considerable market share over the past decade.

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

As of January 21, 2026, JEF stock price climbed to $62.33 with 136,577 million shares trading.

JEF has a beta of 1.78, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. JEF has a correlation of 0.45 to the broad based SPY ETF.

JEF has a market cap of $12.85 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Jefferies Financial Group reported $2 billion in Revenue and $.96 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $106 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.06.

In the last 3 years, JEF traded as high as $82.68 and as low as $28.34.

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

JEF has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -15.6% while the SPY ETF gained +15.7%. However, in the short term, JEF had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +16.1% vs +2.2% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, JEF shares have been beat by the market, returning -5.9% compared to an SPY return of -1.1%.

JEF support price is $59.92 and resistance is $62.27 (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.