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We have scored 72 news catalysts on Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (JEF) over the past 12 months. The biggest single-day move next to one of them came Feb 27, 2026, when JEF closed −9.3%: “Dow tumbles 500 points as growing AI anxiety, hot inflation rattle Wall Street”. Coverage across the window leans negative (average ticker sentiment −0.33). Most of the impact sits in price momentum and institutional appeal.
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Market cap
11.2B
P/E
—
EPS
—
Beta
1.49
52W range
35.53-71.04
Day range
54.13–56.13
Open
54.56
Prev close
54.26
Volume
1.8M
Avg volume
2.1M
Dividend
1.60
IPO
1980-03-17
Jefferies Financial Group Inc. operates as a diversified global financial services firm, primarily focused on investment banking, capital markets, and asset management. Its extensive operations span the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. The company organizes its activities into distinct segments: Investment Banking and Capital Markets, Asset Management, Merchant Banking, and Corporate. Jefferies delivers a comprehensive suite of investment banking services, offering strategic advisory for mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, recapitalizations, and private capital transactions. This also includes underwriting for both equity and debt issuances, as well as corporate lending. Beyond advisory and underwriting, the firm provides financing, securities lending, and other prime brokerage solutions. It further supports clients with equities research, financing, and wealth management services. In its capital markets segment, Jefferies engages in the sales and trading of a wide array of fixed-income products. This encompasses investment-grade corporate bonds, U.S. and European government and agency securities, municipal bonds, mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities, leveraged and consumer loans, high-yield and distressed debt, and emerging markets debt. The firm also deals in interest rate and credit derivative products, performs foreign exchange trade execution, and offers securitization services. Within asset management, Jefferies is involved in the management, investment, and servicing of diverse alternative asset management platforms, covering numerous investment strategies and asset classes. Founded in 1962 and headquartered in New York, New York, the company was formerly known as Leucadia National Corporation until it officially changed its name to Jefferies Financial Group Inc. in May 2018.
Analysts publish price targets on JEF, and they disagree. Where the share price actually sits among them shows which of their arguments the market is buying — and which it is ignoring.
5 analyst price targets from $50 to $87
as of 2026-09-02
The market is 20% below the median target — more cautious than the analysts.
The reconstruction
The price sits at the 20th percentile of published models, leaning bearish and declining to pay for the sustained investment-banking recovery that four bull targets assume.
What the disagreement turns on
Whether the investment-banking revenue surge is a temporary spike or a durable step-change to a higher earnings base — and the wired data can only confirm the historical unit volume trend, not the forward pipeline.
The price pays for
It declines to pay for
Written by a language model from the published models, the reported segments and a reverse-DCF — not a recommendation, and not a house view.
Claim by claim
Computed at $51.98 on 2026-09-02 — the quote has since moved +6%, so read this as a record of what was priced in then, not now.
Daily OHLCV with SMA overlays and session pivots. Draw your levels and trendlines on it, or ask the AI analyst what the price is reacting to.
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