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Jefferies Financial Average Equity is projected to increase significantly based on the last few years of reporting. The past year's Average Equity was at 10.36 Billion. The current year Free Cash Flow is expected to grow to about 748 M, whereas Earnings before Tax are forecasted to decline to about 780.7 M. As some conservative investors are getting more into financial services space, Jefferies Financial Group could be a your radar. What exactly are Jefferies Financial shareholders getting in May? In this post, I will also go over some essential variables affecting Jefferies Financial's products, and show how it may impact Jefferies Financial outlook for active traders this year.

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Is Jefferies Financial (NYSE:JEF) undervalued?

On a scale of 0 to 100, Jefferies Financial holds a performance score of 8. The company retains a Market Volatility (i.e. Beta) of -0.378, which attests to possible diversification benefits within a given portfolio. Let's try to break down what Jefferies's beta means in this case. As returns on the market increase, returns on owning Jefferies Financial are expected to decrease at a much lower rate. During the bear market, Jefferies Financial is likely to outperform the market. Although it is vital to follow Jefferies Financial current price history, it is good to be conservative about what you can do with the information regarding equity current price movements. The philosophy towards determining future performance of any stock is to evaluate the business as a whole together with its past performance, including all available fundamental and technical indicators. By evaluating Jefferies Financial technical indicators, you can presently evaluate if the expected return of 0.25% will be sustainable into the future. Please utilizes Jefferies Financial information ratio, value at risk, kurtosis, as well as the relationship between the sortino ratio and semi variance to make a quick decision on whether Jefferies Financial Group current trending patterns will revert.

And What about dividends?

A dividend is the distribution of a portion of Jefferies Financial earnings, decided and managed by the company's board of directors and paid to a class of its shareholders. Note, announcements of dividend payouts are generally accompanied by a proportional increase or decrease in a company's stock price. Jefferies Financial dividend payments follow a chronological order of events, and the associated dates are important to determine the shareholders who qualify for receiving the dividend payment. Jefferies one year expected dividend income is about $0.27 per share.

Jefferies Financial Dividend Yield is projected to slightly decrease based on the last few years of reporting. The past year's Dividend Yield was at 0.012. The current year Dividends per Basic Common Share is expected to grow to 0.47, whereas Payment of Dividends and Other Cash Distributions is forecasted to decline to (126.7 M).

	Last Reported	Projected for 2021
Preferred Dividends Income Statement Impact	4.4 M	4.8 M
Payment of Dividends and Other Cash Distributions	-117.4 M	-126.7 M
Dividend Yield	0.012	0.0123
Dividends per Basic Common Share	0.33	0.47

Investing in dividend-paying stocks, such as Jefferies Financial Group is one of the few strategies that are good for long-term investment. Ex-dividend dates are significant because investors in Jefferies Financial must own a stock before its ex-dividend date to receive its next dividend.

This type of analysis is very useful when you want to generate a past dividend schedule and payout information for Jefferies Financial. Then that information in the form of graph and calendar can be used to fully explain how Du Pont dividends can provide a real clue to its valuation.

How important is Jefferies Financial's Liquidity

Jefferies Financial financial leverage refers to using borrowed capital as a funding source to finance Jefferies Financial Group ongoing operations. It is usually used to expand the firm's asset base and generate returns on borrowed capital. Jefferies Financial financial leverage is typically calculated by taking the company's all interest-bearing debt and dividing it by total capital. So the higher the debt-to-capital ratio (i.e., financial leverage), the riskier the company. Please check the breakdown between Jefferies Financial's total debt and its cash.

How Jefferies utilizes its cash?

To perform a cash flow analysis of Jefferies Financial, investors first need to understand how to read the cash flow statement. A cash flow statement shows the amount of cash Jefferies Financial is receiving and how much cash it distributes out in a given period. The Jefferies Financial cash flow statement breaks down these inflows and outflows into different buckets, including operating activities, investing activities, and financing activities.

Jefferies Financial Net Cash Flow from Operations is projected to increase significantly based on the last few years of reporting. The past year's Net Cash Flow from Operations was at 788.29 Million

What did Jefferies Financial file with SEC?

The SEC filings are financial statements or other formal documents of Jefferies Financial Group that are regularly submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Public companies, certain insiders, and broker-dealers are required to make SEC filings and fintech professionals rely on these filings for information about companies they are evaluating for investment purposes. Please note, most SEC filings are available online through the SEC's EDGAR database.

Please check here for more information.

Please note, although all public domestic companies are required to submit their filings via EDGAR, not all public companies are available through our service. Also, keep in mind that the actual annual reports to Jefferies shareholders may or may not be submitted as SEC does not always require it.

	31st of March 2021 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers	View
	24th of March 2021 Financial Statements and Exhibits. Results of Operations and Financial Condition	View
	10th of March 2021 Unclassified Corporate Event	View

What is driving Jefferies Financial Investor Appetite?

The asset utilization indicator refers to the revenue earned for every dollar of assets a company currently reports. Jefferies Financial has an asset utilization ratio of 22.21 percent. This indicates that the company is making $0.22 for each dollar of assets. An increasing asset utilization means that Jefferies Financial Group is more efficient with each dollar of assets it utilizes for everyday operations.

	2016	2017	2019	2021 (projected)
Book Value per Share	28.13	28.37	36.82	31.78
Asset Turnover	0.068	0.086	0.12	0.0883

Book Value per Share Asset Turnover

Jefferies Financial will most likely finish below $31 in 60 days

Latest maximum drawdown is at 10.47. Jefferies Financial Group has relatively low volatility with skewness of 0.12 and kurtosis of -0.27. However, we advise all investors to independently investigate Jefferies Financial Group to ensure all accessible information is consistent with the expectations about its upside potential and future expected returns. Understanding different market volatility trends often help investors to time the market. Properly using volatility indicators enable traders to measure Jefferies Financial's stock risk against market volatility during both bullying and bearish trends. The higher level of volatility that comes with bear markets can directly impact Jefferies Financial's stock price while adding stress to investors as they watch their shares' value plummet. This usually forces investors to rebalance their portfolios by buying different stocks as prices fall.

Our Conclusion on Jefferies Financial

Although some other companies in the financial conglomerates industry are either recovering or due for a correction, Jefferies Financial may not be performing as strong as the other in terms of long-term growth potentials. On the whole, as of the 6th of April 2021, our analysis shows that Jefferies Financial almost neglects market trends. The firm is overvalued and projects below average chance of bankruptcy for the next 2 years. Our concluding 30 days 'Buy-vs-Sell' recommendation on the firm is Hold.

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Achuva Shats is a Member of Macroaxs Editorial Board. Achuva writes about retail product and service companies from the perspective of a regular consumer and sophisticated investor at the same time. She is passionate about corporate ethics and equality in the workforce View Profile

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