Stifel Financial Corp (NYSE: SF) is -9.08% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $72.78 and a high of $120.64 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will make a comeback and enjoy potential growth. Why not look at analysts view on what the future holds for the stock. The SF stock was last observed hovering at around $98.43 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -1.98%.
Currently trading at $96.45, the stock is -8.79% and -11.33% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 0.98 million and changing -2.01% at the moment leaves the stock -0.43% off its SMA200. SF registered 27.77% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 13.42%.
The stock witnessed a -14.80% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -15.21%, and is -9.17% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 3.91% over the week and 2.99% over the month.
Stifel Financial Corp (SF) has around 9000 employees, a market worth around $10.01B and $5.95B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 15.42 and Fwd P/E is 10.12. Profit margin for the company is 11.66%. Distance from 52-week low is 32.52% and -20.05% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (9.74%).
with sales reaching $1.32B over the same period.The EPS is expected to grow by 21.25% this year, but quarterly earnings will post 12.66% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to grow 13.28% in year-over-year returns.
Stifel Financial Corp (SF) Top Institutional Holders
The shares outstanding are 102.17M, and float is at 100.28M with Short Float at 1.25%.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 10.39 million shares valued at $874.34 million. The investor’s holdings represent 9.9643% of the SF Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 9.25 million shares valued at $778.31 million to account for 8.8699 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are FMR LLC which holds 6.7 million shares representing 6.4251% and valued at over $563.79 million, while CAPITAL RESEARCH GLOBAL INVESTORS holds 3.3328 of the shares totaling 3.47 million with a market value of $292.09 million.
Stifel Financial Corp (SF) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by WEISEL THOMAS W, the company’s Director. SEC filings show that WEISEL THOMAS W sold 13,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Nov 22 ’24 at a price of $115.01 per share for a total of $1.5 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 13178.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Nov 18 ’24, Nesi Victor (Co-President) disposed off 10,500 shares at an average price of $113.82 for $1.2 million. The insider now directly holds 44,232 shares of Stifel Financial Corp (SF).
