Jefferies Financial Group Inc [NYSE: JEF] closed the trading session at $1920000.0 on 2025-06-26.
The stocks have a year to date performance of 21.04 percent and weekly performance of 5.39 percent. The stock has been moved at -26.41 percent over the last six months. The stock has performed 12.72 percent around the most recent 30 days and changed -6.97 percent over the most recent 3-months.
If compared to the average trading volume of 1.92M shares, JEF reached to a volume of 4392781 in the most recent trading day, which is why market watchdogs consider the stock to be active.
Here’s what leading stock market gurus have to say about Jefferies Financial Group Inc [JEF]:
Based on careful and fact-backed analyses by Wall Street experts, the current consensus on the target price for JEF shares is $58.50 per share. Analysis on target price and performance of stocks is usually carefully studied by market experts, and the current Wall Street consensus on JEF stock is a recommendation set at 2.40. This rating represents a strong Buy recommendation, on the scale from 1 to 5, where 5 would mean strong sell, 4 represents Sell, 3 is Hold, and 2 indicates Buy.
Morgan Stanley have made an estimate for Jefferies Financial Group Inc shares, keeping their opinion on the stock as Equal-Weight, with their previous recommendation back on April 07, 2025. The new note on the price target was released on March 19, 2025, representing the official price target for Jefferies Financial Group Inc stock. Previously, the target price had yet another raise from $67 to $97, while Morgan Stanley kept a Overweight rating on JEF stock.
The Price to Book ratio for the last quarter was 1.12, with the Price to Cash per share for the same quarter was set at 62.26. Price to Free Cash Flow for JEF in the course of the last twelve months was 6.62 with Quick ratio for the last quarter at 1.46.
JEF stock trade performance evaluation
Jefferies Financial Group Inc [JEF] gain into the green zone at the end of the last week, gaining into a positive trend and gaining by 5.39. With this latest performance, JEF shares gained by 12.72% in over the last four-week period, additionally sinking by -26.41% over the last 6 months – not to mention a drop of -28.46% in the past year of trading.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc [JEF]: An insightful look at the core fundamentals
Operating Margin for any stock indicates how profitable investing would be, and Jefferies Financial Group Inc [JEF] shares currently have an operating margin of 39.11% and a Gross Margin at 89.76%. Jefferies Financial Group Inc’s Net Margin is presently recorded at 6.51%.
Return on Equity for this stock inclined to 0.91%, with Return on Assets sitting at 0.91%.
Earnings per share (EPS) analysis for Jefferies Financial Group Inc [JEF] stock
The progress of the company may be observed through the prism of EPS growth rate, while Wall Street analysts are focusing on predicting the 5-year EPS growth rate for JEF. When it comes to the mentioned value, analysts are expecting to see the 5-year EPS growth rate for Jefferies Financial Group Inc go to 23.45%.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc [JEF]: Institutional Ownership
The top three institutional holders of JEF stocks are: BLACKROCK INC. with ownership of 16.04 million shares, which is approximately 7.2904%. VANGUARD GROUP INC, holding 15.69 million shares of the stock with an approximate value of $$780.91 million in JEF stocks shares; and VANGUARD GROUP INC, currently with $$350.8 million in JEF stock with ownership which is approximately 3.2049%.
