Jefferies Financial Group Inc.

JEF Financial Capital Markets

Jefferies Financial Group Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended November 2025) was $7.3 billion, up 4.39% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+8.52%
EPS
+17.3%
Free cash flow
+1,563.1%
Total debt
+21.4%

Quarter to August 2026, against a year earlier

48.90 2.27 −4.44%
Market cap
$11.2B
P/E
12.7×
Fwd P/E
12.4×
Dividend yield
3.27%
F-score
4/9
Altman Z
n/a
Beneish M
n/a
Dividend safety
n/a

Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (JEF) Debt to equity

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Jefferies Financial Group Inc.'s debt to equity at the end of the quarter to 31 August 2026 was 2.1×, up 0.4× from fiscal 2025 (1.7×). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.9× (fiscal 2018) to 1.7× (fiscal 2025) — the current reading is the highest in ten years. That is above the Capital Markets industry median of 0.1× and above the Financial sector median of 0.2×.

Debt to equity, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
FY2025 1.7× 10.22%
FY2024 1.6× 33.52%
FY2023 1.2× 19.52%
FY2022 1.0× (2.18%)
FY2021 1.0× (6.49%)
FY2020 1.1× 4.83%
FY2019 1.0× 9.48%
FY2018 0.9× (11.35%)
FY2017 1.1× 12.48%
FY2017 0.9× (4.95%)

Quarterly newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
Aug 2026 2.1× 4.89%
May 2026 2.0× 6.70%
Feb 2026 1.9× 7.84%
Nov 2025 1.7× (1.73%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 0.9× High 1.7×
Ten-year median 1.0×
Current reading's percentile 100

Debt to equity against peers

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EVR Evercore Inc compare 0.2×
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FUTU Futu Holdings Limited Sponsored ADR compare 0.4×
VIRT Virtu Financial, Inc. compare 0.9×
IREN IREN Limited compare 1.8×
JEF Jefferies Financial Group Inc. 2.1×
Capital Markets industry median 0.1×
Financial sector median 0.2×
Market median 0.1×

What Debt to equity is

Debt to Equity Ratio shows how much a company relies on borrowed money compared with the money its shareholders have in the business.

(Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt) ÷ Shareholders Equity (Total)

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