Stifel Financial Corporation

SF Financial Capital Markets

Stifel Financial Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $5.5 billion, up 11.3% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
−0.22%
EPS
+13.3%
Free cash flow
−90.9%
Total debt
+26.6%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

71.78 1.16 −1.59%
Market cap
$10.8B
P/E
11.8×
Fwd P/E
11.4×
Dividend yield
1.85%
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
n/a
Beneish M
n/a
Dividend safety
n/a

Stifel Financial Corporation (SF) Operating margin

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Stifel Financial Corporation's operating margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 21.2%, up 5.5 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (15.8%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 5.54% (fiscal 2016) to 22.5% (fiscal 2021); the current reading is higher than 36% of that period. That is above the Capital Markets industry median of 0.00% and above the Financial sector median of 0.00%.

Operating margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2025 15.8% (2.93)
FY2024 18.7% 2.43
FY2023 16.3% (3.91)
FY2022 20.2% (2.37)
FY2021 22.5% 5.18
FY2020 17.4% (0.60)
FY2019 18.0% 0.28
FY2018 17.7% 8.46
FY2017 9.21% 3.67
FY2016 5.54% (0.53)

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 22.6% 1.99
Jun 2026 20.6% (1.42)
Mar 2026 22.1% 2.33
Dec 2025 19.7% (0.28)
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Against its own ten years

Low 5.54% High 22.5%
Ten-year median 17.4%
Current reading's percentile 91

Operating margin against peers

Company Operating margin
FUTU Futu Holdings Limited Sponsored ADR compare 62.0%
VIRT Virtu Financial, Inc. compare 49.3%
XP XP Inc. compare 33.6%
JEF Jefferies Financial Group Inc. compare 23.4%
EVR Evercore Inc compare 22.5%
SF Stifel Financial Corporation 21.2%
HLI Houlihan Lokey, Inc. compare 20.3%
IREN IREN Limited compare −54.2%
BMNR BitMine Immersion Technologies, Inc. compare −14,505.1%
Capital Markets industry median 0.00%
Financial sector median 0.00%
Market median 0.00%

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

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