Can Buying Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF) Still Be Worthwhile?

Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE:SF) does about 606.93K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 757500 shares change hands in Tuesday trading. The company now has a market cap of 8.05B USD. Its current market price is $78.60, marking an increase of 0.05% compared to the previous close of $78.56. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $84.23 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $54.81.

Stifel Financial Corp. (SF) has a 20-day trading average at $80.47 and the current price is -6.68% off the 52-week high compared with 43.40% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $79.26 and its 200-day simple moving average is $70.18. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 1.49%, which increases to 1.51% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 43.71 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $87.67, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 10.35% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on January 04, 2024 when TD Cowen initiated the stock to “Outperform” and issued a price target of $83. Citigroup initiated its price target at $60.

Stifel Financial Corp. (SF) stock is up 1.34% over the week and -5.89% over the past month. Its price is 13.67% year-to-date and 33.70% over the past year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 10.35 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of 6.79% and return on equity of 9.97%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 17.88 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 10.00. The beta has a value of 1.11. Price to book ratio is 1.76 and price to sales ratio is 1.51.