Compare Stocks: PTY, HLI, JEF, and VIRT

Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
HLI Houlihan Lokey	$128.55 +3.0%	$130.24	$112.83 ▼ $204.18	$8.62B	1	882,680 shs	525,885 shs
JEF Jefferies Financial Group	$44.90 +2.3%	$50.23	$35.53 ▼ $66.60	$8.30B	1.57	2.75 million shs	2.66 million shs
PTY Pimco Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	$10.76 +1.5%	$11.37	$10.56 ▼ $14.29	$2.35B	0.79	1.99 million shs	1.69 million shs
VIRT Virtu Financial	$57.51 +3.7%	$59.56	$31.55 ▼ $68.76	$8.61B	0.65	1.37 million shs	1.49 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
HLI Houlihan Lokey	+2.89%	+2.22%	-3.77%	-8.26%	-33.42%
JEF Jefferies Financial Group	+2.38%	+1.21%	-8.06%	-18.29%	-17.80%
PTY Pimco Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	+1.51%	-1.65%	-4.36%	-9.28%	-24.39%
VIRT Virtu Financial	+3.64%	-0.64%	-0.57%	+3.11%	+71.06%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
HLI Houlihan Lokey	$128.55 +3.0%	$130.24	$112.83 ▼ $204.18	$8.62B	1	882,680 shs	525,885 shs
JEF Jefferies Financial Group	$44.90 +2.3%	$50.23	$35.53 ▼ $66.60	$8.30B	1.57	2.75 million shs	2.66 million shs
PTY Pimco Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	$10.76 +1.5%	$11.37	$10.56 ▼ $14.29	$2.35B	0.79	1.99 million shs	1.69 million shs
VIRT Virtu Financial	$57.51 +3.7%	$59.56	$31.55 ▼ $68.76	$8.61B	0.65	1.37 million shs	1.49 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
HLI Houlihan Lokey	+2.89%	+2.22%	-3.77%	-8.26%	-33.42%
JEF Jefferies Financial Group	+2.38%	+1.21%	-8.06%	-18.29%	-17.80%
PTY Pimco Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	+1.51%	-1.65%	-4.36%	-9.28%	-24.39%
VIRT Virtu Financial	+3.64%	-0.64%	-0.57%	+3.11%	+71.06%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
HLI Houlihan Lokey	2.64	Moderate Buy	$161.38	25.54% Upside
JEF Jefferies Financial Group	2.29	Hold	$56.86	26.62% Upside
PTY Pimco Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	0.00	N/A	N/A	N/A
VIRT Virtu Financial	2.50	Moderate Buy	$63.60	10.59% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest PTY, HLI, JEF, and VIRT Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
10/13/2026	HLI Houlihan Lokey	Zacks Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Upgrade	Strong Sell ➝ Hold
10/9/2026	HLI Houlihan Lokey	Citigroup Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Upgrade	Outperform
10/9/2026	HLI Houlihan Lokey	Citizens Jmp Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Upgrade	Market Perform ➝ Outperform	$175.00
10/9/2026	VIRT Virtu Financial	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Lower Price Target	Underweight	$57.00 ➝ $56.00
10/8/2026	HLI Houlihan Lokey	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Lower Price Target	Overweight	$177.00 ➝ $165.00
10/7/2026	HLI Houlihan Lokey	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Boost Price Target	Neutral	$147.00 ➝ $154.00
10/5/2026	VIRT Virtu Financial	Evercore Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Upgrade	Outperform
10/5/2026	VIRT Virtu Financial	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Upgrade	Neutral ➝ Overweight	$84.00
10/2/2026	VIRT Virtu Financial	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Reiterated Rating	Overweight
9/29/2026	JEF Jefferies Financial Group	Oppenheimer Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Lower Price Target	Outperform	$76.00 ➝ $71.00
9/29/2026	JEF Jefferies Financial Group	Capital One Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Set Price Target		$50.00

(Data available from 10/16/2023 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
HLI Houlihan Lokey	$2.62B	3.39	$8.32 per share	15.45	$33.71 per share	3.81
JEF Jefferies Financial Group	$10.82B	0.78	$4.66 per share	9.64	$56.86 per share	0.79
PTY Pimco Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
VIRT Virtu Financial	$3.63B	2.46	$6.45 per share	8.91	$12.90 per share	4.46

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
HLI Houlihan Lokey	$425.70M	$5.95	21.60	14.61	1.63	16.10%	20.20%	11.71%	12/31/2026 (Confirmed)
JEF Jefferies Financial Group	$710.47M	$3.65	12.30	9.49	N/A	7.50%	9.24%	1.27%	N/A
PTY Pimco Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
VIRT Virtu Financial	$468.36M	$6.02	9.29	9.19	0.41	13.50%	49.06%	4.28%	11/5/2026 (Estimated)

Latest PTY, HLI, JEF, and VIRT Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
11/5/2026	Q3 2026	VIRT Virtu Financial	$1.48	N/A	N/A	N/A	$625.87 million	N/A
10/28/2026	Q2 2027	HLI Houlihan Lokey	$1.63	N/A	N/A	N/A	$625.88 million	N/A
7/30/2026	Q2 2026	VIRT Virtu Financial	$1.81	$1.82	+$0.01	$1.63	$687.23 million	$1.19 billion
7/29/2026	Q1 2027	HLI Houlihan Lokey	$1.64	$1.35	-$0.29	$1.15	$602.38 million	$511.00 million

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
HLI Houlihan Lokey	$2.80	2.18%	+13.05%	47.06%	9 Years
JEF Jefferies Financial Group	$1.60	3.56%	+21.67%	43.84%	2 Years
PTY Pimco Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	$1.43	13.30%	N/A	N/A	N/A
VIRT Virtu Financial	$0.96	1.67%	N/A	15.95%	N/A

Latest PTY, HLI, JEF, and VIRT Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
9/28/2026	JEF Jefferies Financial Group	quarterly	$0.40	3.39%	11/16/2026	11/16/2026	11/25/2026
10/1/2026	PTY Pimco Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	monthly	$0.1188	13.25%	10/13/2026	10/13/2026	11/2/2026
9/1/2026	PTY Pimco Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	monthly	$0.1188	12.47%	9/11/2026	9/11/2026	10/1/2026
7/29/2026	HLI Houlihan Lokey	quarterly	$0.70	2.11%	9/1/2026	9/1/2026	9/15/2026
7/30/2026	VIRT Virtu Financial	quarterly	$0.24	1.47%	9/1/2026	9/1/2026	9/15/2026
8/3/2026	PTY Pimco Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	monthly	$0.1188	12.13%	8/13/2026	8/13/2026	9/1/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
HLI Houlihan Lokey	N/A	1.36	1.36
JEF Jefferies Financial Group	2.09	1.02	0.98
PTY Pimco Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
VIRT Virtu Financial	0.87	0.45	0.45

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
HLI Houlihan Lokey	78.07%
JEF Jefferies Financial Group	60.88%
PTY Pimco Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	10.25%
VIRT Virtu Financial	45.78%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
HLI Houlihan Lokey	22.53%
JEF Jefferies Financial Group	19.90%
PTY Pimco Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	N/A
VIRT Virtu Financial	46.76%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
HLI Houlihan Lokey	2,800	69.06 million	53.50 million	Optionable
JEF Jefferies Financial Group	7,787	189.09 million	151.46 million	Optionable
PTY Pimco Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	147,000	221.88 million	N/A	Not Optionable
VIRT Virtu Financial	1,027	155.20 million	82.63 million	N/A

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JPMorgan upgrades Virtu Financial stock to Overweight

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JP Morgan Upgrades Virtu Financial to Overweight from Neutral

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PTY, HLI, JEF, and VIRT Company Descriptions

Houlihan Lokey NYSE:HLI

$128.54 +3.77 (+3.02%)

Closing price 10/15/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$128.51 -0.03 (-0.03%)

As of 10/15/2026 07:30 PM Eastern

Houlihan Lokey, Inc., an investment banking company, provides merger and acquisition (M&A), capital market, financial restructuring, and financial and valuation advisory services worldwide. It operates in three segments: Corporate Finance, Financial Restructuring, and Financial and Valuation Advisory. The Corporate Finance segment offers general financial advisory services; and advises public and private institutions on buy-side and sell-side transactions, leveraged loans, private mezzanine debt, high-yield debt, initial public offerings, follow-ons, convertibles, equity private placements, private equity, and liability management transactions, as well as advise financial sponsors on various transactions. The Financial Restructuring segment advises debtors, creditors, and other parties-in-interest related to recapitalization/deleveraging transactions. It also provides a range of advisory services, including structuring, negotiation, and confirmation of plans of reorganization; structuring and analysis of exchange offers; corporate viability assessment; dispute resolution and expert testimony; and procuring debtor-in-possession financing. The Financial and Valuation Advisory segment offers valuations of various assets, such as companies, illiquid debt and equity securities, and intellectual property. It also provides fairness opinions in connection with M&A and other transactions, solvency opinions in connection with corporate spin-offs and dividend recapitalizations, and other types of financial opinions. In addition, this segment offers dispute resolution services. It serves corporations, financial sponsors, and government agencies. The company was incorporated in 1972 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Jefferies Financial Group NYSE:JEF

$44.90 +0.99 (+2.26%)

Closing price 10/15/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$44.75 -0.15 (-0.34%)

As of 10/15/2026 07:30 PM Eastern

Jefferies Financial Group Inc. operates as an investment banking and capital markets firm in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific. The company operates in two segments, Investment Banking and Capital Markets, and Asset Management. It provides investment banking, advisory services with respect to mergers or acquisitions, debt financing, restructurings or recapitalizations, and private capital advisory transactions; underwriting and placement services related to corporate debt, municipal bonds, mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities, equity and equity-linked securities, and loan syndication services; and corporate lending services. The company also offers financing, securities lending, and other prime brokerage services; equities research, sales, and trading services; wealth management services; and online foreign exchange trading services. In addition, it provides investment grade distressed debt securities, U.S. and European government and agency securities, municipal bonds, leveraged loans, emerging markets debt, and interest rate and credit index derivative products; and manages and offers services to a diverse group of alternative asset management platforms across a spectrum of investment strategies and asset classes. The company was formerly known as Leucadia National Corporation and changed its name to Jefferies Financial Group Inc. in May 2018. Jefferies Financial Group Inc. was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Pimco Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund NYSE:PTY

$10.76 +0.16 (+1.46%)

Closing price 10/15/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$10.77 +0.02 (+0.18%)

As of 10/15/2026 07:58 PM Eastern

PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund is a closed-ended fixed income mutual fund launched and managed by Allianz Global Investors Fund Management LLC. It is co-managed by Pacific Investment Management Company LLC. The fund invests in fixed income markets across the globe. It invests in corporate debt obligations rated in the lowest investment grade category Baa or BBB and in the highest non-investment grade category Ba or BB. The fund focuses on intermediate maturity bonds across multiple industries and sectors. It employs fundamental analysis along with top-down approach to make its fixed income investments. The fund uses in-house research to make its investments. PIMCO Corporate Opportunity Fund was founded on December 27, 2002 and is domiciled in United States.

Virtu Financial NYSE:VIRT

$57.51 +2.03 (+3.66%)

Closing price 10/15/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$57.40 -0.11 (-0.20%)

As of 10/15/2026 07:30 PM Eastern

Virtu Financial, Inc., a financial services company, provides data, analytics, and connectivity products to clients worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Market Making and Execution Services. Its product suite includes offerings in execution, liquidity sourcing, analytics and broker-neutral, and multi-dealer platforms in workflow technology. The company's solutions enable clients to trade on various venues across countries and in multiple asset classes, including global equities, ETFs, foreign exchange, futures, fixed income, cryptocurrencies, and other commodities. Its analytics platform provides a range of pre- and post-trade services, data products, and compliance tools for clients to invest, trade, and manage risk across markets. Virtu Financial, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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