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 the merger, Jefferies became the core of the combined 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 July 17, 2026, JEF stock price declined to $55.21 with 745,077 million shares trading.

JEF has a beta of 2.17, 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 $12.73 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Jefferies Financial Group reported $2 billion in Revenue and $1.03 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-77 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.18.

In the last 3 years, JEF traded as high as $82.68 and as low as $31.38.

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 return of +3.3%, while SPY returned +20.7%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in JEF shares. However, JEF has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +19.4% and +4.9%, while SPY returned +6.6% and +0.2%, respectively. This indicates JEF has been having a stronger performance recently.

JEF support price is $54.17 and resistance is $57.43 (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.