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Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (XNYS:JEF) In-Depth Stock/Fundamental/Options Analysis Today

Primary Facts

JEF

Name:

JEFFERIES FINANCIAL GROUP INC. (XNYS:JEF)

Sector:

- 1242958.00K

Industry:

Financial Conglomerates

CEO:

Mr. Richard Handler

Total Employees:

5,556

Our Technological Advancement Rating

Our Rating:

B

Technological advancement compared to industry is -12.39% lower

ANALYSIS OF ALL CRITICAL FACTORS & RISKS RELATED TO THE STOCK & FUNDAMENTAL/LONG-TERM ANALYSIS OF JEFFERIES FINANCIAL GROUP INC.(JEF) AS PER DATA ANALYSIS OF LAST 3 YEARS AND COMPARISON WITH COMPETITORS/PEERS, AND FINANCIAL CONGLOMERATES INDUSTRY. DATE: 07/09/2022

Primary Targets/Price Insights

Previous Close ($) :

31.5

One Month Price Target:

$31.75

Six Month Price Target :

$32.97

Likely Price in One Year's Time:

Ticker:

$34.44

Likely Trading Range Today Under (Normal Volatility)
 

$31.39

Price Upper limit ($) :

$31.67

Price Lower limit ($) :

Crash Risk Prep/Key Price Levels (High Volatility/Risk)

Price, as per data analysis, isn't likely to fall below:

Today:

$29.8

                                                               This week:

$27.7

                                                        This month :

$23.9

Other Primary facts

Market Cap:

7.41B

Market Cap Classification:

Mid Cap

Number of Shares

IPO Date:

232.45M

Best/Worst Daily Performance (Last 3+ Years)
 

Highest Daily Appreciation:

11.62%

-13.38%

Worst Daily Decline:

Our Options Trading Entry Points

Iron Condor entry points for options expiring in 1 week's time

Low risk (<2%) entry points

Buy Call:

Sell Call:

Buy Put:

Sell Put:

$39.38

$35.73

$23.62

$27.27

Medium risk (<10%) entry points

Buy Call

Sell Call

$34.54

Buy Put:

Sell Put:

$33.76

$28.45

$29.24

These entry points can be used for other strategies, such as butterflies, straddles, etc.

Risk-Adjusted returns (Sharpe Ratio) of

JEF

Sharpe Ratio:

3.22%

Comparison:

JEF, is amongst the top 20% stocks with highest risk-adjusted returns

Sharpe ratio is 571.09% higher than the industry

& ratio is 41.27% higher than the market/S&P 500 average

Average Returns/Yield of

JEF

Daily returns:

0.09%

Weekly returns:

0.47%

Monthly returns:

1.90%

Yearly returns:

1.02%

Comparison of returns:

Average annual returns/yield (last 3 years) is 2137.36% above industry average

Classification:

JEF, is amongst the top 40% highest yielding stocks in terms of daily returns

Results of T-Test of Returns:

0.49

Statistical test of Returns:

JEF has yielded returns statistically similar to the market

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Volatility (measured by Standard Deviation)

Daily Volatility:

2.67%

Weekly Volatility:

5.97%

Monthly Volatility:

11.95%

Yearly Volatility:

41.39%

Volitlilty of last five days (Measured by Standard Deviation) 

Average Volatility of this Week:

0.52%

Volatility in last five trading days has been -80.57% below long-term volatility

Value at Risk Analysis (VaR)

Daily VaR:

-5.39%

Weekly VaR:

-12.06%

Monthly VaR:

-24.11%

How Much Can the price of

JEF

Decline in a Recession?

Likely price decline in a recession: 

Base case (decline):

-20%

Worst case (decline):

-83.53%

This translates to price declining to:

$25.13

This translates to price declining to:

$5.19

Severe Crash Probability

Risk of crash in next 6/12 months: High (50-70%)

What is Value at Risk (VaR)?

VaR explained figure

Risk Fundamentals

JEF is a 70.19% riskier investment compared to the market/S&P 500 & is 45.80% riskier than Nasdaq (IXIC)

Risk (measured by volatility) is -13.00% below industry average

Overall, it is amongst the top 50% most risky stocks

Beta Examination of

JEF

Beta in relation to market/S&P 500--1.39

Expected beta in 1 year's time:

0.8

Expected beta in 3 year's time:

1.132

Unlevered (debt free) Beta:

0.825

Beta in relation to Nasdaq (XNAS):

0.896

Beta in relation to all global stocks::

0.915

Beta Comparison & Analysis

Beta of competitors/peers::

0.962

Beta is 44.45% higher than peers

Average Industry Beta: 

1.541

Beta is -9.79% below industry average

Sustainable Growth Rate Analysis

Sustainable growth rate for this stock/firm:

13.70%

Sustainable growth rate is -63.46% below industry average

Alpha provided | Alpha Analysis 

Alpha provided:

0.101

Alpha is -179.61% below industry average alpha yield

Alpha is 643% higher than market/& is unsustainably high

Analysis of Cost of Capital of

JEF

Equity cost of capital:

0.127

Equity cost of capital is -7.54% below industry mean WACC

Unlevered (without debt) cost of capital:  

7.52%

Before-tax cost of debt:

-

After-tax cost of debt:

-

Overall debt rating:

-

Weighted average cost of capital (WACC):

-

-

Key Per-Share Metrics & Analysis

Revenue per share:

$35.62

Revenue growth rate per share of (3Y):

0.69

Annual revenue growth rate is 167.89% above the industry average

EPS:

$5.20

Expected Annual growth rate of  EPS (3Y):

25.79%

Expected future EPS growth rate is -49.19% lower than the Financial Conglomerates industry

Free cash flow (FCF) per share:

$6.47

Balance sheet equity growth per share: 71.27%

Equity growth rate per share is -88.79% lower than the industry

Debt per share

$40.61

EBITDA per share

$8.60

Valuation Analysis Today of

JEF

P/E Ratio:

7.15

P/E Ratio of Competitors/Peers:

19.78

P/E ratio is -63.84% lower than main peers & is -75.19% lower than the industry

Stock price/value with industry average P/E ratio: $149.91

JEF is -78.99% undervalued if valued using industry average P/E ratio

Share value as per dividend discount (DDM) model: $112.01

Present value of the expected future dividends only: $42.54

P/S (Price to Sales ratio):

0.88

Price to sales ratio is -28.27% below the industry mean

P/B (Price to book value ratio):

0.69

Price to free cash flow: 4.87

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Net income growth rate (3Y):

1130.36%

Net income growth rate is 73.51% higher than the average industry net income growth rate

Dividend Analysis

Dividend payout rate: 5.09%

Dividend yeild: 3.49%

Previous Dividend: $0.30

Previous adjusted dividend: $0.30

Previous Dividend: $1.10

Expected next dividend best case: $0.35

Expected next dividend worst case: $0.25

Average dividend payment (long-term): $0.20

Average dividend increase/decrease (growth rate) % per period: 9.83%

Expected next dividend payment date: 25/08/2022

Expected next dividend record date: 15/08/2022

Expected next dividend declaration date: 27/06/2022

Previous dividend payment date: 27/05/2022

Previous dividend record date: 16/05/2022

Previous dividend declaration date: 28/03/2022

Dividend History:

2022-05-13--$0.30

2021-11-12--$0.25

2021-05-14--$0.20

2022-02-11--$0.30

2021-08-13--$0.25

2021-02-11--$0.20

Dividend growth rate is -91.70% lower than the industry average

In-depth Debt & Leverage Analysis

Debt to equity ratio:

88.92%

Net debt to equity ratio:

97.41%

Debt to assets ratio:

15.72%

Net debt to assets ratio:

17.22%

Debt-to-asset ratio is -81.08% below industry average

Ability to repay debt:

Interest coverage ratio:

-

-

Looking forward:

Debt growth rate:

1.80%

Annual debt growth is -100% lower than industry average debt growth rate

Debt repayment rate in last quarter: 15.05%

Analysis of Key Statistics  

Correlation of price movement with the market:

0.734

Statistical significance of correlation:

JEF has a statistically significant correlation with the market

Average Correlation of  the industry with the market:

0.652

Stock price is 12.58% more correlated with the market, compared to the industry average correlation

R Squared (percentage of price movement explained by movement of the market): 

0.652

Correlation of price movement with Nasdaq (^IXIC):

0.037

Covariance  of price movement with the market:

0.058

Kurtosis 

3.822

Returns have moderate fat-tails (leptokurtic), i.e., returns considerably higher or lower than the mean returns are more probable, compared to assets with normally distributed returns

Skewness of returns:

-0.239

Returns are, approximately, symmetrical

Fundamental Analysis & Dupont Analysis of

JEF

Gross Profit Margin Ratio:

165%

Operating Profit Margin Ratio:

23.67%

Operating profit margin is -9.06% lower than the industry

Net Profit Margin Ratio:

165%

Effective Tax Rate:

22.91%

Effective tax rate is -12.97% lower than the industry

Dupont Method

Net Profit Margin

Return on Equity Ratio (ROE):

×

ROA

=

×

13.38%

Return on equity (ROE) is -70.90% lower than the industry

Financial Leverage

Asset Turnover Ratio (ROA):

2.36%

Return on assets (ROA) is -58.77% lower than the industry

Financial Leverage:

1.2x

Current Ratio:

0.98

Current ratio is -66.77% below industry average

Cash Conversion Cycle (days):

387

Cash conversion cycle is 2960.53% above industry average

The remaining useful life of property plant & equipment is: 0.0 years

Stock based compensation to net income ratio:

0.69%

In-depth Efficiency  Analysis

Revenue generated per employee:

1.5M

Each employee generates 32% more revenue than industry average revenue per employee

EBITDA generated per employee: 

359.8K

Each employee generates 57% more EBITDA than industry average revenue per employee

Profit generated per employee: 

255.5K

Each employee generates 75% more net income/profit than industry average revenue per employee

Free cash flow (FCF) generated per employee: 

- 223.7K

Each employee generates 459% more free cash flow than industry average revenue per employee

Assets/Capital per employee

7.3M

Each employee generates 459% more free cash flow than industry average revenue per employee

Research & Development (R&D) Analysis

-

-

Competitors/Peer firms of 

JEF

VOYA FINANCIAL, INC. (XNYS:VOYA)

RENAISSANCERE HOLDINGS LTD. (XNYS:RNR)

REINSURANCE GROUP OF AMERICA, INCORPORATED (XNYS:RGA)

Sprott Physical Gold Trust (ARCX:PHYS)

RNR-PE

ARES MANAGEMENT CORPORATION (XNYS:ARES)

VOYA-PB

OLD REPUBLIC INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (XNYS:ORI)

CULLEN/FROST BANKERS, INC. (XNYS:CFR)

Current Analyst Ratings

Strong buy�0%

Buy�0%

Hold�0%

Sell�0%

Strong sell�0%

Overall analyst sentiment is: -

Income Statement

Period:

TTM

Date:

2/28/22

Revenue:

8.28B

Cost of Revenue:

Gross Profit:

R&D Expense

General & Admin Expenses:

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Sales and Marketing Expenses

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Income Tax Expense:

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Balance Sheet

Date:

Calendar Year:

Period:

Cash & Cash Equivalents:

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Cash & Short Term Investments:

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Inventory:

Other Current Assets:

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Intangible Assets: 

Long Term Investments: 

Tax Assets: 

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Total Assets: 

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Retained Earnings:

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss:

Other Total Stockholders' Equity:

Total Stockholders' Equity:

Total Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity:

Total Investments:

Total Debt:

Net Debt:

4.86B

3.42B

-

-

1.29B

-

164.59M

1.46B

213.98M

-

156.24M

2.00B

1.96B

1.42B

1.85B

422.85M

1.42B

Statement of Cash Flow

Date:

Period:

47.40M

Differed Income Tax :

- 67271.00K

Stock Based Compensation :

9.75M

Change in Working Capital :

- 1378457.00K

Accounts Receivables:

- 479872.00K

Other Working Capital:

-

Other Non-Cash Items:

- 154725.00K

Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities:

- 1215328.00K

Investments in PP&E:

- 27630.00K

Net Acquisitions:

-

Purchases of Investments:

-

Sales/Maturities of Investments:

Other Investing Activities:

​Net Cash Used for Investing Activities:

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Free Cash Flow (FCF):

2/28/22

2022

Q1

8.50B

-

8.50B

10.08B

-

838.09M

19.42B

909.57M

1.75B

148.98M

35.30B

-

2.51B

40.62B

-

60.04B

-

9.40B

-

-

10.43B

19.83B

9.44B

20.08B

29.52B

-

49.35B

240.17M

8.19B

- 330308.0K

2.39B

February 28, 2022 at 7:00:00 AM

6.32B

10.62B

59.96B

-

18.84B

10.3B

-

- 77448.00K

- 105078.00K

- 1671637.00K

-

- 338058.00K

- 72331.00K

998.65M

- 1083380.00K

- 467.00K

- 2404253.00K

9.42B

11.83B

- 1215328.00K

- 27630.00K

- 1242958.00K

Our Proprietary Portfolio Rating

Our Rating:

B

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Price Forecast/Expected Price in Next 5 Years of

JEF

2023

2024

2025

2026

2027

$34.61

$71.68

$78.38

$85.70

$93.70

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