Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (JEF)

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Jefferies Financial Group Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2017-04-17) (its current reports).

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Jefferies Financial Group Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $12 billion in fiscal 2015 to $11 billion in fiscal 2025, down 0.8% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 67% from fiscal 2015 to fiscal 2016; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-11-30, Jefferies Financial Group Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 4.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 74% of its net income over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 2 sales and 4 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-30, buying about $1.3 billion (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-11-30, Jefferies Financial Group Inc. earned about 6 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 14 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 86 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.4% over the year (the filed statements).

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Jefferies Financial Group Inc.'s standing among 29 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $11 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 29% by size; a net margin of 6.3% ranks in the bottom 36%; revenue growth of 14.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 48% (its annual reports).

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Jefferies Financial Group Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Handler, Richard B (CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2023-07-28, 3.3 years (bottom 36% of its family); the 13 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 7.9 years (top 36%); 2 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 13 people in charge now (top 12%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Jefferies Financial Group Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $14 billion against debt of $16 billion leaves -2.4% of its assets as net cash, bottom 19% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -15.7% of revenue (bottom 19%); a gross margin of 98.2% (top 8%) (its annual report).

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Jefferies Financial Group Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 14.8% a year over the last three filed years against -0.8% over all 10, speeding up (top 9% of its family); the newest year grew 2.9% (bottom 9%); research spending grew 70.8% a year (top 6%); capital spending grew -2.6% a year (bottom 48%) (its annual reports). Jefferies Financial Group Inc. reported 6 product lines in fiscal 2025: Investment Banking at $3.8 billion (35%), Interest Revenue at $3.4 billion (31%), Principal Transactions Revenue at $1.6 billion (15%), and 3 more; 3 of 6 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Jefferies Financial Group Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $11 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 15.1% below the $13 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 18% of its family); net income of $682 million against a prior three-year average of $587 million (bottom 33%); a net margin of 6.3% against 7.1% before (bottom 30%) (its annual reports).