Jefferies Financial Group (NYSE:JEF) Vs. IBKR, CS, RJF, HOOD, MKTX, NMR, SEIC, SF, FUTU, and VIRT
Should you be buying Jefferies Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Jefferies Financial Group include Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), Credit Suisse Group (CS), Raymond James (RJF), Robinhood Markets (HOOD), MarketAxess (MKTX), Nomura (NMR), SEI Investments (SEIC), Stifel Financial (SF), Futu (FUTU), and Virtu Financial (VIRT). These companies are all part of the "security brokers & dealers" industry.
Jefferies Financial Group vs.
Jefferies Financial Group (NYSE:JEF) and Credit Suisse Group (NYSE:CS) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation and profitability.
Credit Suisse Group has higher revenue and earnings than Jefferies Financial Group.
In the previous week, Credit Suisse Group had 9 more articles in the media than Jefferies Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Credit Suisse Group and 4 mentions for Jefferies Financial Group. Credit Suisse Group's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Jefferies Financial Group's score of 0.16 indicating that Credit Suisse Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Jefferies Financial Group has a beta of 1.47, meaning that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Credit Suisse Group has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Credit Suisse Group received 175 more outperform votes than Jefferies Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.27% of users gave Credit Suisse Group an outperform vote while only 56.89% of users gave Jefferies Financial Group an outperform vote.
Jefferies Financial Group currently has a consensus price target of $44.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.75%. Credit Suisse Group has a consensus price target of $9.01, indicating a potential downside of 6.11%. Given Jefferies Financial Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Jefferies Financial Group is more favorable than Credit Suisse Group.
68.9% of Jefferies Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.2% of Credit Suisse Group shares are held by institutional investors. 17.1% of Jefferies Financial Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Jefferies Financial Group has a net margin of 20.11% compared to Credit Suisse Group's net margin of 0.26%. Jefferies Financial Group's return on equity of 16.76% beat Credit Suisse Group's return on equity.
Jefferies Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Credit Suisse Group pays an annual dividend of $0.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Jefferies Financial Group pays out 16.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Jefferies Financial Group beats Credit Suisse Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding JEF and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment >-1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Jefferies Financial Group (NYSE:JEF) vs. Its Competitors
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