Raymond James Financial, Inc (NYSE:RJF) does about 1.22M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1412719 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 32.44B USD. Its current market price is $158.98, marking a decrease of -0.56% compared to the previous close of $159.87. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $171.38 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $104.24. The script in recent trading has seen the stock touch a high of $150 and a low of $138.
Raymond James Financial, Inc (RJF) has a 20-day trading average at $157.62 and the current price is -7.24% off the 52-week high compared with 52.52% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $158.60 and its 200-day simple moving average is $130.91. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.02%, which decreases to 1.94% 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 52.84 to suggest the stock is neutral.
8 analysts observing the Raymond James Financial, Inc (RJF) stock have set the 12-month price targets for the company’s shares at between $138 and $150. The consensus objective for the share price is $167.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 4.8% over the period. The median price target is -10.4% away from the current levels at $144.
FactSet Research has provided data showing that 8 brokerages have issued ratings for the stock. 0 analysts have rated it as a sell, while 0 advise that it is a overweight. 5 analysts have rated it as a buy and 3 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Buy and Wall Street’s advice is for investors to Moderate Buy the stock.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on January 07, 2025 when JP Morgan downgraded the stock to “Neutral” and issued a price target of between $151 and $166. Goldman upgraded the stock to “Buy” from Neutral on January 06, 2025 at a price target of $161-$185. Wells Fargo downgraded its price target at $152-$169.
The current price level is 0.86%, 0.24%, and 21.44% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the RJF price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. Raymond James Financial, Inc (RJF) stock is up 2.35% over the week and -3.96% over the past month. Its price is 2.35% year-to-date and 41.90% over the past year.
Its 12-month price target is $144. To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 4.8 percent from here. Of course, the average price target is just what the average analysts believe a stock will be worth in the next 52 weeks, and is only one metric. There are analysts with lower targets than the average, including one bearish Wall Street research firm advocating investors to wait for the price to pull back to $138, given the recent momentum. And then, on the bullish side of things, one analyst is expecting the stock to peak at $150.
The company has a return on investment of 13.58% and return on equity of 18.86%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 16.39 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 13.79. The beta has a value of 1.04. Price to book ratio is 2.79 and price to sales ratio is 2.17.
