Stifel Financial Corp (NYSE: SF) is -21.14% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $73.27 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 $85.70 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -2.05%.
Currently trading at $83.65, the stock is -6.98% and -14.68% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.12 million and changing -2.39% at the moment leaves the stock -15.03% off its SMA200. SF registered 12.46% gain for a year compared to 6-month loss of -14.90%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $98.0396 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $98.44405.
The stock witnessed a -13.11% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -23.98%, and is -3.12% 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 4.54% over the week and 5.22% over the month.
Stifel Financial Corp (SF) has around 9000 employees, a market worth around $8.68B and $5.95B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 13.37 and Fwd P/E is 9.41. Profit margin for the company is 11.66%. Distance from 52-week low is 14.17% and -30.66% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (9.74%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 10.71% this year
670.0 institutions hold shares in Stifel Financial Corp (SF), with institutional investors hold 89.09% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 102.17M, and float is at 100.32M with Short Float at 2.29%. Institutions hold 86.42% of the Float.
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 8.8805 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are FMR LLC which holds 6.7 million shares representing 6.4329 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).
