Taking the lead: Stifel Financial Corp. (SF)

With 0.74 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.5 million shares. During the session, the Capital Markets company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $104.79 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $102.765. The 52-week range on SF shows that it touched its highest point at $103.32 and its lowest point at $54.81 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $105.50. With its current market cap of 10.69 billion, SF has annualized dividend of $1.62 while the current yield stands at 1.55%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.09.

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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 SF was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.81%, but this was up by 12.31% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 18.19% while six-month performance rose 32.81%. The stock gained 78.36% in the past year, while it has gained 50.79% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for SF yields 5.53 with Next year EPS estimates of 7.75. For the next quarter, that number is 1.94. This implies an EPS growth rate of 40.48% for this year and 17.91% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 14.18% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 3.18%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 101.06 million SF shares are outstanding with a float of 98.94 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-09-30, short shares totaled 2.12 million, which was 206.99999999999997 higher than short shares on 1724976000. In addition to Mr. Ronald James Kruszewski as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. James Mark Zemlyak serves as its Co-President & Head of Global Wealth Management.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.86813 of SF’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.