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 $5.0 billion in revenue in 2024, 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 December 19, 2025, SF stock price climbed to $127.41 with 1,142,681 million shares trading.

SF has a beta of 1.44, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. SF has a correlation of 0.61 to the broad based SPY ETF.

SF has a market cap of $12.97 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Stifel Financial reported $1 billion in Revenue and $1.95 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $104 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.07.

In the last 3 years, SF traded as high as $133.08 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 price return of +26.4% while the SPY ETF gained +18.1%. SF has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +11.2% and +0.9%, respectively, while the SPY returned +2.8% and -0.5%, respectively.

SF support price is $122.54 and resistance is $127.36 (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.