Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE:SF) price on current trading day, rose 1.15% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $95.85.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $94.76, moving within a range at $94.67 and $96.895. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.093 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 20.34. Turning to its 52-week performance, $94.98 and $54.81 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, SF moved 12.28% over the past month.
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Stifel Financial Corp.’s market cap currently stands at around $9.83 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2024-Oct-23. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 1.62, with its dividend yield at 1.69%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 1.2B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 1.17B and 1.23B respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 14.70% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 4.86B, representing a 11.70% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that SF is a 100% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Buy category.
3 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 1 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 2 recommend SF as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
The technical evaluation for the stock shows the PEG ratio is 1.43, with SF’s current price about 6.53% and 10.39% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 74.88, while 7-day volatility ratio is 1.89% and 2.02% in the 30-day chart. Further, Stifel Financial Corp. (SF) has a beta value of 1.09, and an average true range (ATR) of 1.80. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $94.5, forecast between a low of $89 and high of $102. Looking at the price targets, the low is 7.15% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -6.42%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a 1.41% jump to $94.5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE:SF), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 0.43 over the past 10 days and 534.34K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 101.06 million shares.
The 3.49% of Stifel Financial Corp.’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 85.81% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 1.99 million on 2024-09-13, giving us a short ratio of 5.82. The data shows that as of 2024-09-13 short interest in Stifel Financial Corp. (SF) stood at 200.99999999999997 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 1.94 million registered in 2024-08-15. Current price change has pushed the stock 38.61% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the SF stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
