profit from every $100 of sales.
$0$100
Stifel Financial
$72.75+0.68% today
-10.6% in 1 year
1-year low $66.061-year high $88.81
Trading in the middle of its range for the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2022 to 2025.
0%20% a year
You pay $15.88 for every $1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
Not measured for banks and insurers: deposits and policy reserves count as debt, so the usual debt test says nothing about them.
Money in, money out
What Stifel Financial sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from $4.33 billion in 2022 to $5.46 billion in 2025, with $684 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Stifel Financial handed back 46% of the cash it generated last year.
Buybacks $245M$244M
Free cash flow 2025$1.1B
Bought back its own shares$245M
Paid as dividends$244M
Cash vs. debt$2.6B vs. $1.5B
Stifel Financial vs. similar companies
Stifel Financial grows the slowest of these 5 and is priced in the middle for its profits.
| Company | Profit from $100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per $1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stifel Financial | 15.9× · Fair price | ||
 Raymond James Financial | 15.2× · Fair price | ||
 Tradeweb Markets | 35.0× · Expensive | ||
 Nomura Holdings | 13.3× · Cheap | ||
 LPL Financial Holdings | 26.4× · Fair price |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Stifel Financial's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of USD | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,334 | 4,291 | 4,907 | 5,464 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 885 | 707 | 928 | – | |
| 1,157 | 1,598 | 1,996 | 1,784 | |
| 662 | 523 | 731 | 684 | |
| 3.55 | 2.85 | 4.17 | 3.91 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 20.4% | 16.5% | 18.9% | – | |
| 15.3% | 12.2% | 14.9% | 12.5% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of USD | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 37,196 | 37,727 | 39,896 | 41,271 |
| Cash | 2,200 | 3,577 | 2,918 | 2,569 |
| Total debt | 1,175 | 2,001 | 1,544 | 1,528 |
| Total liabilities | 31,868 | 32,433 | 34,209 | 35,293 |
| 5,328 | 5,294 | 5,687 | 5,977 | |
| 176 | 170 | 166 | 165 | |
| 13.2% | 16.4% | 20.9% | 17.8% | |
| 12.4% | 9.9% | 12.9% | 11.4% |
Cash flow
| In millions of USD | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,157 | 499 | 490 | 1,117 | |
| 82 | 52 | 74 | 62 | |
| 1,075 | 447 | 417 | 1,055 | |
| Dividends paid | 171 | 200 | 227 | 244 |
| 106 | 444 | 144 | 245 | |
| 136 | 140 | 154 | 164 |
This is a bank or insurer, so cash-flow and debt ratios are left out: borrowing and lending is the business itself. Price to book and return on equity are the measures that matter here.
Valuation
- 15.9×
- 11.6×
- 4.76
- 1.3×
- 2.0×
- 6.3%
- 2.1%
Profitability
- 12.5%
- 10.6%
- 8.8%
- 15.1%
- 2.1%
Growth
- +8.0%
- +3.3%
- +30.1%
- −1.1%
How it ranks in Financial Services
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Top 25%of 688
Bottom 48%of 540
Bottom 40%of 900
Top 48%of 908
Top 26%of 941
What analysts expect
- Average price target
- $93.44
- Range
- $89.00 – $99.33
- 1 analysts
These targets were collected on May 20, 2026 and our analyst feed has not updated since, so we no longer compare them with today's price.
Recent earnings
Our results feed has not updated since May 21, 2026. Results reported after that are not in this table yet.
| Date | EPS | Expected | Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 2026 | 1.45 | 1.39 | +4.3% |
| Jan 28, 2026 | 1.75 | 1.65 | +6.1% |
| Oct 22, 2025 | 1.95 | 1.85 | +5.4% |
| Jul 30, 2025 | 1.71 | 1.61 | +6.2% |
| Apr 23, 2025 | 0.49 | 1.64 | −70.1% |
| Jan 29, 2025 | 2.23 | 1.97 | +13.2% |
| Oct 23, 2024 | 1.50 | 1.60 | −6.3% |
| Jul 24, 2024 | 1.60 | 1.54 | +3.9% |
2.1%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$21a year at today's yield, before tax
+30.1%2020 to 2025
Raised1 yearin a row, in our data
Paid per share, each year
$0.13 in 2017 → $1.69 in 2025
How safe it looks
35.6% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 23.1%
News
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Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
3/7Passes 3 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
66Pass
Benjamin Graham
66Pass
Philip Fisher
63Pass
Peter Lynch
23No pass
Joel Greenblatt
52No pass
Charlie Munger
55No pass
Terry Smith
53No pass
Questions about Stifel Financial
Is Stifel Financial a good stock to buy?
A solid business at a fair price. 3 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Stifel Financial AI analysis
What does Stifel Financial do?
Stifel Financial Corp., a financial services and bank holding company, provides retail and institutional wealth management, and investment banking services to individual investors, corporations, municipalities, and institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, the rest of Europe, and Canada. It is in Financial - Capital Markets, based in Saint Louis, MO, United States, with 8,900 employees.
Does Stifel Financial pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 2.1% a year, about 36% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out $244 million in dividends.
Is Stifel Financial stock halal?
No. Stifel Financial does not pass our halal screen: it owns a bank and offers margin loans, and interest is about 30% of its gross revenue. How we check
How has Stifel Financial stock done over the past year?
Down 10.6% over the past twelve months, to $72.75. It traded between $66.06 and $88.81 and is 18.1% below its high.
Who are Stifel Financial's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Raymond James Financial, Tradeweb Markets, Nomura Holdings and LPL Financial Holdings. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Stifel Financial's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.