SF Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Stifel Financial | NYSE:SF)

Stifel Financial is a diversified financial-services provider that generates revenue from wealth management, investment banking, and lending. The firm was founded in 1890 as a St. Louis-based full-service brokerage but has been transformed under CEO Ronald Kruszewski through a slew of acquisitions into a globally competitive wealth manager, investment bank, and retail and institutional brokerage. The firm generated $5.5 billion in revenue in 2025, with roughly two-thirds derived from wealth management and one-third derived from investment banking and trading.

Stifel Financial trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol SF.

As of February 5, 2026, SF stock price declined to $128.04 with 1,025,830 million shares trading.

SF has a beta of 1.34, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. SF has a correlation of 0.58 to the broad based SPY ETF.

SF has a market cap of $13.02 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Stifel Financial reported $2 billion in Revenue and $2.63 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $58 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.13.

In the last 3 years, SF traded as high as $134.74 and as low as $53.48.

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

SF has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +14.7%, while the SPY ETF gained +13.4%. In the last 3 month period, SF beat the market returning +7.6%, while SPY returned +0.3%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks SF has underperformed the stock market by returning -2.2%, while SPY returned -1.6%.

SF support price is $126.46 and resistance is $131.29 (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 SF shares will trade within this expected range on the day.