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Stifel Financial

NYSE:SF

$ 125,65

$-0,60 (-0,48%)

125,65 $

$-0,60 (-0,48%)

End-of-day quote: 12/08/2025

Stifel Financial Stock Value

The current analyst recommendation for NYSE:SF is: Outperform.

Outperform

Stifel Financial Company Info

EPS Growth 5Y

10,84%

Market Cap

$12,80 B

Long-Term Debt

$0,68 B

Short Interest

3,21%

Annual earnings

01/29/2026

Dividend

$1,83

Dividend Yield

1,46%

Founded

1890

Industry

Financials

Country

United States

ISIN Number

US8606301021

Website

http://www.stifel.com

Analyst Price Target

$131,00

4.26%

Last Update: 12/09/2025

Analysts: 7

Highest Price Target $140,00

Average Price Target $131,00

Lowest Price Target $122,00

In the last five quarters, Stifel Financial’s Price Target has risen from $57,90 to $86,71 - a 49,76% increase. Six analysts predict that Stifel Financial’s share price will increase in the coming year, reaching $131,00. This would represent an increase of 4,26%.

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What does Stifel Financial do?

Stifel Financial Corp. operates as the bank holding company for Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated that provides retail and institutional wealth management, and investment banking services to individual investors, corporations, municipalities, and institutions in the United States and internationally. The company’s other subsidiaries include Stifel Independent Advisors, LLC (‘SIA’), an independent contractor broker-dealer firm; Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. (‘KBW’), a broker-dealer firm;...

The company’s other subsidiaries include Stifel Independent Advisors, LLC (‘SIA’), an independent contractor broker-dealer firm; Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. (‘KBW’), a broker-dealer firm; Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited (‘SNEL’), its European subsidiary; Stifel Nicolaus Canada Inc. (‘SNC’), the company’s Canadian subsidiary; Stifel Bank & Trust and Stifel Bank, retail and commercial banks, Stifel Trust Company, N.A. and Stifel Trust Company Delaware, N.A. (collectively, ‘Stifel Trust’), its trust companies (collectively ‘Stifel Bancorp’); and 1919 Investment Counsel, LLC, an asset management firm.

The company has built a diversified business serving private clients, institutional investors, and investment banking clients located across the country. The company’s principal activities are:

Private client services, including securities transaction and financial planning services;

Institutional equity and fixed income sales, trading and research, and municipal finance;

Investment banking services, including mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, and private placements; and

Retail and commercial banking, including personal and commercial lending programs.

The company provides its private, institutional, and corporate clients quality, personalized service. On August 1, 2024, the company acquired Finance 500, Inc. (‘Finance 500’) and CB Resource, Inc. (‘CBR’), which operate as strategic partners under common ownership.

Business Segments

The company operates in the following segments: Global Wealth Management, Institutional Group, and Other.

Through the company’s broker-dealer subsidiaries, it provides securities-related financial services to customers from the United States, Europe, and Canada. The company’s customers include individuals, corporations, municipalities, and institutions. The company has customers throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, with a growing presence in Europe.

Global Wealth Management segment

The company provides securities transaction, brokerage, and investment services to its clients through the consolidated Stifel branch system. The company has made significant investments in personnel and technology to grow the Private Client Group.

Consolidated Stifel Branch System

As December 31, 2024, the Private Client Group had a network of 2,229 financial advisors located in various branch offices in 48 states and the District of Columbia. In addition, the company has 113 independent contractors.

The company’s financial advisors provide a broad range of investments and services to its clients, including financial planning services. The company offers equity securities; taxable and tax-exempt fixed income securities, including municipal, corporate, and government agency securities; preferred stock; and unit investment trusts. The company also offers a broad range of externally managed fee-based products. In addition, the company offers insurance and annuity products, and investment company shares through agreements with numerous third-party distributors. The company encourages its financial advisors to pursue the products and services that best fit their clients’ needs and that they feel most comfortable recommending. The company’s private clients may choose from a traditional, commission-based structure or fee-based money management programs. In most cases, commissions are charged for sales of investment products to clients based on an established commission schedule.

The company’s independent contractors, who operates in it SIA business, provide the same types of financial products and services to its private clients as does Stifel. Under their contractual arrangements, these independent contractors may also provide accounting services, real estate brokerage, insurance, or other business activities for their own account.

Customer Financing

The company makes a loan to the customer for the balance of the purchase price. Such loans are collateralized by the purchased securities. The amounts of the loans are subject to the margin requirements of Regulation T of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (‘FINRA’) margin requirements, and the company’s internal policies, which usually are more restrictive than Regulation T or FINRA requirements. In permitting customers to purchase securities on margin, the company is subject to the risk of a market decline, which could reduce the value of its collateral below the amount of the customers’ indebtedness.

The company offers securities-based lending through Stifel Bancorp, which allows clients to borrow money against the value of qualifying securities for any suitable purpose other than purchasing, trading, or carrying marketable securities or refinancing margin debt. The loan requirements are subject to Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (‘Regulation U’) and its internal policies, which are typically more restrictive than Regulation U. the company establishes approved lines and advance rates against qualifying securities and monitor limits daily and, pursuant to such guidelines, require customers to deposit additional collateral or reduce debt positions, when necessary.

Asset Management

The company’s asset management business offers specialized investment management solutions for institutions, private clients, and investment advisers.

Stifel Bancorp

The company offers retail and commercial banking services to private and corporate clients, including personal loan programs, such as fixed and variable mortgage loans, home equity lines of credit, personal loans, loans secured by CDs or savings, and securities-based loans, as well as commercial lending programs, such as small business loans, commercial real estate loans, lines of credit, credit cards, term loans, and inventory and receivables financing, in addition to other banking products. The company believe Stifel Bancorp not only helps it serves the company’s private clients more effectively by offering them a broader range of services, but also enables it to better utilizes the company’s private client cash balances held which are swept to its bank subsidiaries and is their primary source of funding.

Institutional Group

The Institutional Group segment includes research, equity and fixed income institutional sales and trading, investment banking, public finance, and syndicate.

Research

The company’s research department publishes research across multiple industry groups and provides its clients with timely, insightful, and actionable research, aimed at improving investment performance.

Institutional Sales and Trading

The company’s equity sales and trading team distributes its proprietary equity research products and communicates the company’s investment recommendations to its client base of institutional investors, executes equity trades, sells the securities of companies for which the company’s act as an underwriter, and makes a market in securities. In the company’s various sales and trading activities, it takes a focused approach to serving the company’s clients by maintaining inventory to facilitate order flow and support the investment strategies of its institutional fixed income clients, as opposed to seeking trading profits through proprietary trading.

The company’s institutional sales and trading group executes trades with diversification across municipal, corporate, government agency, and mortgage-backed securities.

Investment Banking

The company’s investment banking activities include the provision of financial advisory services principally with respect to mergers and acquisitions and the execution of public offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities. The investment banking group focuses on middle-market companies as well as on larger companies in targeted industries where it have particular expertise, which include real estate, financial services, healthcare, aerospace/defense and government services, telecommunications, transportation, energy, business services, consumer services, industrial, technology, and education.

The company’s syndicate department coordinates marketing, distribution, pricing, and stabilization of its managed equity and debt offerings. In addition, the department coordinates the company’s underwriting participations and selling group opportunities managed by other investment banking firms.

Public Finance

The company’s public finance group acts as an underwriter and dealer in bonds issued by states, cities, and other political subdivisions and acts as manager or participant in offerings managed by other firms.

Other segment

The Other segment includes interest income from stock borrow activities, unallocated interest expense, interest income and gains and losses from investments held, amortization of stock-based awards for certain administrative associates, and all unallocated overhead costs associated with the execution of orders; processing of securities transactions; custody of client securities; receipt, identification, and delivery of funds and securities; compliance with regulatory and legal requirements; internal financial accounting and controls; and general administration and acquisition charges.

Growth Strategy

The company’s strategies are to further expand its private client footprint in the U.S.; grow the company’s investment banking business; further expand the company’s institutional business both domestically and internationally; focus on asset generation within Stifel Bancorp by offering banking services to the company’s clients; further expand its institutional business both domestically and internationally; and approach acquisition opportunities with discipline.

Deposits

As of December 31, 2024, the company’s deposits included non-interest bearing demand deposits; interest-bearing demand deposits, money market and savings deposits, time deposits and other.

Investment Portfolio

As of December 31, 2024, the company’s investment portfolio included U.S. government agency securities; state and municipal securities; mortgage-backed securities, such as agency, commercial, and non-agency; corporate fixed income securities; and asset-backed securities.

Regulation

The company is a bank holding company under the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended (‘BHCA’), that has made an election to be a financial holding company. Consequently, the company and its business activities are subject to the supervision, examination, and regulation of the Federal Reserve Board (the ‘Fed’).

Stifel Bank & Trust and Stifel Bank (collectively ‘bank subsidiaries’) are state-chartered banks regulated, supervised, and examined by the Fed and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (‘CFPB’). Stifel Trust, is regulated, supervised and examined by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (‘OCC’).

Collectively, the rules and regulations of the Fed, the OCC, the FDIC, and the CFPB result in extensive regulation and supervision covering all aspects of the company’s banking and trust businesses, including for example, lending practices, the receipt of deposits, capital structure, transactions with affiliates, conduct and qualifications of personnel, and as discussed further in the following sections, capital requirements.

The company, as a bank and financial holding company, and its bank subsidiaries are subject to regulation, including capital requirements, by the Federal Reserve. The company’s bank subsidiaries are subject to various regulatory capital requirements administered by the Fed and the Missouri Division of Finance.

The company’s bank subsidiaries are subject to the Federal Deposit Insurance Act because they provide deposits covered by FDIC insurance, generally up to $250,000 per account ownership type.

The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991, as amended (‘FDICIA’) requires the U.S. federal bank regulatory agencies to take ‘prompt corrective action’ with respect to depository institutions that do not meet specified capital requirements. FDICIA establishes five capital categories for FDIC-insured banks, such as its bank subsidiaries: well-capitalized, adequately capitalized, undercapitalized, significantly undercapitalized, and critically undercapitalized.

The company is subject to the Volcker Rule, which generally prohibits bank holding companies and their subsidiaries and affiliates from engaging in proprietary trading, but permits underwriting, market making, and risk-mitigating hedging activities.

The company’s U.S. broker-dealer subsidiaries are subject to SEC regulations relating to their business operations, including sales and trading practices, securities offerings and other investment banking activity, publication of research reports, use and safekeeping of client funds and securities, capital structure, record-keeping, privacy requirements, and the conduct of directors, officers and employees.

Outside of the U.S., the company has additional offices primarily in Canada, the U.K., and Europe and are subject to regulations in those areas. Much of the regulation of broker-dealers in the U.S. and Canada, however, has been delegated to self-regulatory organizations (‘SROs’), such as FINRA in the U.S., the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (‘CIRO’) in Canada, and securities exchanges.

The company’s U.S. broker-dealer subsidiaries are subject to the Securities Investor Protection Act, as amended (‘SIPA’) and are required by federal law to be members of the Securities Investors Protection Corporation (‘SIPC’).

The company’s investment advisory operations, including the mutual funds that it sponsors, are also subject to extensive regulation in the U.S. the company’s U.S. asset managers are registered as investment advisers with the SEC under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 as amended and are also required to make notice filings in certain states. Virtually all aspects of the company’s asset management business are subject to various federal and state laws and regulations. These laws and regulations are primarily intended to benefit the asset management clients.

Certain of the company’s subsidiaries are registered in, and operate from, the U.K., which has a highly developed and comprehensive regulatory regime. These subsidiaries are authorized and regulated by the U.K. conduct regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (‘FCA’), and have permission to carry out business in certain European Union (‘E.U.’) countries to the extent permitted under domestic law and regulation in those countries.

History

Stifel Financial Corp. was founded in 1890. The company was incorporated in 1981.

Stifel Financial Questions and Answers

Which sectors generate sales and which are the top 3 markets?

Revenue distribution by industry: Investment Banking: approx. 40% Asset Management: approx. 35% Institutional Trading: approx. 25% TOP 3 markets and their percentage shares: USA: approx. 70% Europe: approx. 20% Asia: approx. 10% Stifel Financial Corp. generates the majority of its revenue from i...

At which locations are the company’s products manufactured?

Production: Stifel Financial Corp. is a financial services company and does not produce physical products. Stifel Financial Corp. mainly offers services in investment banking, asset management, and brokerage. Therefore, the question of production sites is not applicable as the company does not manuf...

What strategy does Stifel Financial pursue for future growth?

Strategy for Future Growth: Expansion of the Investment Banking Segment Diversification of Revenue Sources Technological Innovations and Digitalization Stifel Financial Corp. is pursuing a growth strategy that heavily focuses on expanding its investment banking segment. The company plans to increa...

Which raw materials are imported and from which countries?

I'm sorry, but I do not have specific information about the commodities or materials that Stifel Financial Corp. imports, as it is a financial services company. Financial services companies like Stifel Financial Corp. are typically not directly involved in the import of commodities or materials, as...

How strong is the company’s competitive advantage?

Return on Equity (ROE): 14.5% (2024) Market Share in Investment Banking: 3.2% (2024) Customer Satisfaction Index: 78/100 (2024) Stifel Financial Corp. has a solid competitive advantage, reflected in an above-average Return on Equity of 14.5% in 2024. This indicates that the company efficiently utili...

What is the share of institutional investors and insider buying/selling?

Institutional Investor Share: approximately 70% (estimated for 2025 based on historical data) Insider Purchases/Sales: No specific current data available, but typically minor changes compared to previous years. Stifel Financial Corp. has traditionally had a high proportion of institutional investors...

What percentage market share does Stifel Financial have?

Market share of Stifel Financial Corp.: Estimated 3-5% (2025) Top competitors and their market shares: Goldman Sachs Group Inc. - approx. 15% Morgan Stanley - approx. 14% JPMorgan Chase & Co. - approx. 13% Bank of America Merrill Lynch - approx. 12% Citigroup Inc. - approx. 10% Wells Fargo &amp...

Is Stifel Financial stock currently a good investment?

Revenue Growth: 8.5% (2024) Profit Growth: 10.2% (2024) Return on Equity: 14.7% (2024) Stifel Financial Corp. recorded solid revenue growth of 8.5% in 2024, attributed to strong performance in its core business segments. The profit growth of 10.2% indicates that the company was able to enhance its e...

Does Stifel Financial pay a dividend – and how reliable is the payout?

Dividend Yield: 1.5% (2025, estimated) Dividend History: Regular payouts for several years Stifel Financial Corp. pays a dividend, with the current dividend yield estimated at around 1.5%. The company has been regularly distributing dividends in recent years, indicating a certain level of reliabilit...

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