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) Return on equity

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Jefferies Financial Group Inc.'s return on equity over the twelve months to 31 August 2026 was 8.06%, up 2.0 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (6.05%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 1.21% (fiscal 2016) to 16.7% (fiscal 2021); the current reading is higher than 54% of that period. That is above the Capital Markets industry median of 0.00% and below the Financial sector median of 9.01%.

Return on equity, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Return on equity Change (points)
FY2025 6.05% (0.63)
FY2024 6.68% 4.06
FY2023 2.62% (4.83)
FY2022 7.45% (9.21)
FY2021 16.7% 8.58
FY2020 8.08% (1.67)
FY2019 9.75% (0.36)
FY2018 10.1% 8.46
FY2017 1.65% 0.01
FY2017 1.64% 0.41

Against its own ten years

Low 1.21% High 16.7%
Ten-year median 6.05%
Current reading's percentile 54

Return on equity against peers

Company Return on equity
FUTU Futu Holdings Limited Sponsored ADR compare 30.9%
VIRT Virtu Financial, Inc. compare 26.2%
XP XP Inc. compare 22.8%
HLI Houlihan Lokey, Inc. compare 17.7%
JEF Jefferies Financial Group Inc. 8.06%
EVR Evercore Inc compare 0.00%
SF Stifel Financial Corporation compare 0.00%
IREN IREN Limited compare −23.4%
BMNR BitMine Immersion Technologies, Inc. compare −151.2%
Capital Markets industry median 0.00%
Financial sector median 9.01%
Market median 0.51%

What Return on equity is

ROE shows how much profit a company earns for its shareholders on the equity they have in the business.

Annual: Net Income Allotted to Shareholders ÷ Average Common Equity; TTM: Net Income Allotted to Shareholders ÷ Average Common Equity (latest quarter)

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