With 1.27 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 2.04 million shares. During the session, the Capital Markets company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $47.43 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $46.4. The 52-week range on JEF shows that it touched its highest point at $82.68 and its lowest point at $39.28 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $57.00. With its current market cap of 9.68 billion, JEF has annualized dividend of $1.40 while the current yield stands at 2.98%. JEF paid its most recent dividend on 1739491200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1747612800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.46.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of JEF was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 12.91%, but this was down by -13.62% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -37.31% while six-month performance fell -26.91%. The stock gained 5.27% in the past year, while it has lost -40.11% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for JEF yields 2.89 with Next year EPS estimates of 4.41. For the next quarter, that number is 0.58. This implies an EPS growth rate of -9.45% for this year and 63.04% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 24.79% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -0.32%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 206.25 million JEF shares are outstanding with a float of 164.32 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-04-15, short shares totaled 3.11 million, which was 150.999995 higher than short shares on 1741910400. In addition to Mr. Joseph Saul Steinberg as the firm’s Co-Founder & Chairman, Mr. Richard Brian Handler serves as its CEO & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.72979 of JEF’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2025-02-28, JEF reported revenue of $2472864000.0 and operating income of $1117468000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $1063905000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.57.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for JEF since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With JEF analysts setting a high price target of 75.0 and a low target of 41.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 57.0. Based on these targets, JEF could surge 59.74% to reach the target high and fall by -12.67% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 21.41% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $3.40975 being high and $2.79455 being low. For JEF, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.08342. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.03 and the low estimate is $0.51. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.74.
