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 and internationally. It operates in three segments: Global Wealth Management, Institutional Group, and Other. The company provides private client services, including securities transaction and financial planning services; institutional equity and fixed income sales, trading and research, and municipal finance services; investment banking services, such as mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, and private placements; and retail and commercial banking services comprising personal and commercial lending programs, as well as deposit accounts. It participates in and manages underwritings for corporate and public finance; and offers financial advisory and securities brokerage services. The company was founded in 1890 and is headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri.

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In trading on Monday, shares of Stifel Financial Corporation's 4.50% Dep Shares Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock Series D (Symbol: SF.PRD) were yielding above the 6.5% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $1.125), with shares changing hands as low as $17.12 on the day. This compares to an average yield of 6.53% in the "Financial" preferred stock category, according to Preferred Stock Channel. As of last close, SF.PRD was trading at a 29.96% discount to its liquidation preference amount, versus the average discount of 11.00% in the "Financial" category. Investors should keep in mind that the shares are not cumulative, meaning that in the event of a missed payment, the company does not have to pay the balance of missed dividends to preferred shareholders before resuming a common dividend.
The chart below shows the one year performance of SF.PRD shares, versus SF:
Below is a dividend history chart for SF.PRD, showing historical dividend payments on Stifel Financial Corporation's 4.50% Dep Shares Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock Series D:
In Monday trading, Stifel Financial Corporation's 4.50% Dep Shares Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock Series D (Symbol: SF.PRD) is currently down about 2.2% on the day, while the common shares (Symbol: SF) are off about 0.1%.
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Stifel Financial's Preferred Stock Series D Yield Pushes Past 6.5%

Stifel Financial Corp. SF reported key operating results as of May 31, 2025, highlighting year-over-year increases in client and fee-based assets, despite volatility in equity markets.
Breakdown of SF’s May Operating Results
The company’s total client assets increased 8% year over year and 3% from the prior month’s level in May 2025, reaching $501.4 million. This is driven by market appreciation and the successful recruitment of financial advisors.
Fee-based client assets rose 13% year over year and 4% sequentially in May to $199.1 million.
Private Client Group's fee-based client assets were $173.6 million as of May 31, 2025, up 12% from the year-ago quarter and 5% from the previous month’s level.
Bank loans, net (including loans held for sale), were $21.2 million as of May 2025, up 7% year over year but down 2% sequentially.
Client money market and insured product balances decreased 2% on a year-over-year basis and nearly 1% on a sequential basis in May due to a lower Smart rate balance, as the Sweep deposit balance also witnessed a slight decline.
Final Words on Stifel
SF’s May total client assets and fee-based assets increased, indicating strong growth in client engagement and portfolio value. Further, a rise in bank loans, net, implies a positive trend in lending activities and revenue growth from this segment. However, declining client money market and insured product balances suggest a decline in liquidity and possibly a negative market perception.
In April, the investment banking activity was negatively affected by the market volatility. However, as the market stabilized, its momentum increased, and the investment banking pipeline strengthened throughout the quarter. Though IB revenue is expected to decrease in the second quarter of 2025, management remains cautiously optimistic for the full year 2025.
SF’s Zacks Rank & Price Performance
In the past year, Stifel shares have risen 25.5% underperforming the industry’s rise of 40.6%.
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Performance of Other Finance Stocks in May
LPL Financial LPLA witnessed a rise in total brokerage and advisory assets in May 2025. The metric was $1.85 trillion, which grew 3.7% from the prior month and 26.5% year over year.
LPLA reported a total client cash balance of $49.2 billion in May, down 5% from the prior month but up 10.6% from May 2024. Of the total balance, $33.4 billion was insured cash, $10.6 billion was deposit cash, and the remainder consisted of money-market sweep and client cash balances.
Charles Schwab SCHW also released its monthly activity report for May 2025. The company’s total client assets were $10.35 trillion, up 12.4% from May 2024 and 4.6% from April 2025.
SCHW’s Client assets receiving ongoing advisory services were $5.24 trillion, growing 12.6% from the year-ago period and 3.9% from the prior month.
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Stifel Reports Y/Y Rise in Client & Fee-Based Assets for May 2025

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, on 6/2/25, First Financial Bancorp (Symbol: FFBC), Principal Financial Group Inc (Symbol: PFG), and Stifel Financial Corporation (Symbol: SF) will all trade ex-dividend for their respective upcoming dividends. First Financial Bancorp will pay its quarterly dividend of $0.24 on 6/16/25, Principal Financial Group Inc will pay its quarterly dividend of $0.76 on 6/27/25, and Stifel Financial Corporation will pay its quarterly dividend of $0.46 on 6/16/25. As a percentage of FFBC's recent stock price of $24.13, this dividend works out to approximately 0.99%, so look for shares of First Financial Bancorp to trade 0.99% lower — all else being equal — when FFBC shares open for trading on 6/2/25. Similarly, investors should look for PFG to open 0.98% lower in price and for SF to open 0.49% lower, all else being equal.
Below are dividend history charts for FFBC, PFG, and SF, showing historical dividends prior to the most recent ones declared.
First Financial Bancorp (Symbol: FFBC):
Principal Financial Group Inc (Symbol: PFG):
Stifel Financial Corporation (Symbol: SF):
In general, dividends are not always predictable, following the ups and downs of company profits over time. Therefore, a good first due diligence step in forming an expectation of annual yield going forward, is looking at the history above, for a sense of stability over time. This can help in judging whether the most recent dividends from these companies are likely to continue. If they do continue, the current estimated yields on annualized basis would be 3.98% for First Financial Bancorp, 3.91% for Principal Financial Group Inc, and 1.95% for Stifel Financial Corporation.
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In Thursday trading, First Financial Bancorp shares are currently down about 1.6%, Principal Financial Group Inc shares are off about 1.6%, and Stifel Financial Corporation shares are off about 1.1% on the day.
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Stifel Financial Corp. SF reported key operating results for April 30, 2025, highlighting year-over-year increases in client and fee-based assets for April despite volatility in equity markets.
Breakdown of SF’s April Operating Results
The company’s total client assets rose 7% year over year in April 2025 to $485.6 million, attributed to market appreciation and the successful recruitment of financial advisors. Despite market volatility, total client and fee-based assets remained steady compared with March 2025.
Fee-based client assets rose 11% year over year in April to $190.5 million, while the metric remained relatively steady on a sequential basis.
Private Client Group's fee-based client assets were $166 million as of April 30, 2025, up 11% from the year-ago quarter while remaining relatively flat with the prior quarter.
Bank loans, net (including loans held for sale) were $21.5 million as of April 2025, up 8% year over year and 1% sequentially.
Client money market and insured product balances decreased 1% on a year-over-year basis and 5% on a sequential basis in April as both smart rate and sweep deposits were negatively impacted by typical seasonality.
Our Take on Stifel
SF’s April total client assets and fee-based assets increased, indicating strong growth in client engagement and portfolio value. Further, a rise in Bank loans, net, implies a positive trend in lending activities and revenue growth from this segment. However, declining client money market and insured product balances suggest a decline in liquidity and possibly a negative market perception.
SF’s Zacks Rank & Price Performance
In the past six months, Stifel shares have declined 19.2% against the industry’s rise of 0.8%.
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Currently, SF carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
Performance of Other Finance Stocks in April
Charles Schwab SCHW released its monthly activity report for April 2025. The company’s total client assets were $9.89 trillion, up 12% from April 2024 and stable sequentially. This was led by volatile markets during the month.
SCHW’s client assets receiving ongoing advisory services were $5.04 trillion, growing 12% from the year-ago period and relatively stable with the prior month.
Robinhood Markets, Inc. HOOD released the monthly operating data for April 2025. It reported a rise in equity, options and crypto DARTs from the year-ago period.
HOOD’s total Platform Assets at the end of April 2025 were $232 billion, surging 88% year over year and growing 5% from March 2025.
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Stifel Reports Y/Y Rise in Client & Fee-Based Assets for April 2025

Chicago, Illinois-based Kellanova (K) manufactures and markets snacks and convenience foods. Valued at a market cap of $28.6 billion, the company’s principal products consist of snacks, such as crackers, savory snacks, toaster pastries, cereal bars, granola bars, and bites; and convenience foods, including ready-to-eat cereals, frozen waffles, veggie foods, and noodles. It sells its products under various well-known brands, including Kellogg's, Cheez-It, Pringles, Austin, Parati, RXBAR, and Eggo, to name a few.
Shares of this snacks and convenience food manufacturing company have considerably outpaced the broader market over the past 52 weeks. K has rallied 33.9% over this time frame, while the broader S&P 500 Index ($SPX) has gained 8.6%. Moreover, on a YTD basis, the stock is up 2%, compared to SPX’s 4.3% drop.
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Zooming in further, Kellanova has also outpaced the First Trust Nasdaq Food & Beverage ETF’s (FTXG) 8.6% decline over the past 52 weeks and 1.7% loss on a YTD basis.
On May 1, Kellanova’s shares closed up marginally after its Q1 earnings release. The company posted revenue of $3.1 billion, which declined 3.7% from the year-ago quarter, primarily due to unfavourable currency translation and widespread category softness. However, strong performance in its emerging markets helped drive a slight increase in its organic revenues.
On the earnings front, its adjusted EPS declined 10.9% year-over-year to $0.90, while its adjusted operating profit dropped 13.2% from the prior-year period. The decline in net sales and adjusted operating profit across most of its reportable segments, driven by ongoing macroeconomic and industry-related challenges, weighed on the company's overall performance.
For the current fiscal year, ending in December, analysts expect K’s EPS to decline 1.3% year over year to $3.81. The company’s earnings surprise history is mixed. It exceeded the consensus estimates in three of the last four quarters, while missing on another occasion.
Among the 16 analysts covering the stock, the consensus rating is a “Hold” which is based on all 16 “Hold” ratings.
This configuration is slightly less bullish than two months ago, with one analyst suggesting a “Moderate Buy” rating.
On May 5, Matthew Smith, CFA from Stifel Financial Corp. (SF) maintained a “Hold” rating on Kellanova, with a price target of $83.50, the Street-high price target, which indicates a 1.1% potential upside from the current levels.
As of writing, the company is trading above its mean price target of $81.47.
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Kellanova Stock Outlook: Is Wall Street Bullish or Bearish?

On Wednesday, optimism was in the air on the stock market, as investors were hopeful that the current tariff war might not be as damaging as feared. They were selective about the stocks they piled into, however, and one they avoided was Stifel Financial (NYSE: SF).
This was due almost entirely to the investment bank's first-quarter earnings report, which the market found wanting. Investors traded Stifel down by almost 4% in reaction, on a day when the S&P 500 index posted a nearly 2% improvement.
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Wealth management woes
For the quarter, Stifel's net revenue came in at just under $1.26 billion, which bettered the $1.16 billion in the same period a year ago. Yet that result was under the consensus analyst estimate of $1.3 billion.
The company whiffed far more badly on its bottom line result. Its non-GAAP (adjusted) net income fell dramatically over that one-year stretch, landing at $54.2 million ($0.49 per share) from Q1 2024's more than $163 million. Analysts had estimated a far higher per-share number, specifically $1.74.
One big culprit for the profitability decline was Stifel's global wealth management business -- the source of most of its revenue. What the company described as "higher litigation-related expenses" drove down the unit's pre-tax net income, to $126 million. In the same period of 2024, that profit was $290 million.
Looking forward to the future
In the earnings release, Stifel pointed out that the $1.26 billion top line is a new record for the first quarter. Admirably, the company acknowledged the setback in global wealth management, and it waxed bullish about the coming months despite the current macroeconomic headwinds.
"We remain optimistic about long-term growth, emphasizing the resilience of U.S. financial markets and the value our advice-driven model delivers during periods of uncertainty," CEO Ronald Kruszewski said.
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Why Stifel Financial Stock Was Down on Wednesday

Goldman Sachs (GS) shares soared 11.8% in the last trading session to close at $516.87. The move was backed by solid volume with far more shares changing hands than in a normal session. This compares to the stock's 13% loss over the past four weeks.
Goldman Sachs witnessed a strong price increase driven by the President Donald Trump's announcement on April 9, 2025, of a 90-day suspension of tariffs for most trading partners, excluding China. The tariff suspension eased immediate worries about escalating trade wars, fostering a more favorable economic outlook. The expectation of improved economic conditions and increased market activity bolstered investors’ confidence in investment banking stocks like Goldman Sachs.
This investment bank is expected to post quarterly earnings of $12.72 per share in its upcoming report, which represents a year-over-year change of +9.8%. Revenues are expected to be $15.16 billion, up 6.6% from the year-ago quarter.
While earnings and revenue growth expectations are important in evaluating the potential strength in a stock, empirical research shows a strong correlation between trends in earnings estimate revisions and near-term stock price movements.
For Goldman, the consensus EPS estimate for the quarter has been revised 4.7% lower over the last 30 days to the current level. And a negative trend in earnings estimate revisions doesn't usually translate into price appreciation. So, make sure to keep an eye on GS going forward to see if this recent jump can turn into more strength down the road.
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Goldman is a member of the Zacks Financial - Investment Bank industry. One other stock in the same industry, Stifel Financial (SF), finished the last trading session 12.9% higher at $86.34. SF has returned -18.5% over the past month.
For Stifel, the consensus EPS estimate for the upcoming report has remained unchanged over the past month at $1.85. This represents a change of +24.2% from what the company reported a year ago. Stifel currently has a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
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Goldman (GS) Surges 11.8%: Is This an Indication of Further Gains?

Not for the first time this young month, Lumentum Holdings (NASDAQ: LITE) was a highflier on the stock exchange Monday. Shares of the optical electronics specialist closed the day more than 5% higher in price, thanks to two bullish new analyst notes -- one of which involved a recommendation upgrade. The stock's rise provided a welcome contrast to the S&P 500 index, which fell by 0.2%.
A pair of positive pundits
Of the two new pundit publications, it was naturally the one with the upgrade that had the greater impact. Before market open that day, Northland analyst Tim Savageaux changed his recommendation on Lumentum to outperform (i.e., buy) from his previous market perform (hold). His price target on the company is $70 per share, which is 34% higher than the stock's current level.
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Another boost from the world of punditry came from researchers at Stifel. On Monday, that company published its take on last week's Optica Executive Forum at the Optical Fiber Communications industry conference.
Stifel was generally quite bullish on what it heard and saw at the event. According to reports it wrote that with the increasing workloads requiring effective, low-latency data transmission will support companies in the optical field.
It put the kibosh on the idea that optical transceivers are obsolete; in the Stifel team's view, they are the only workable option for coping with sharply increasing bandwidth requirements.
A fine position to be in
Lumentum, then, is a company that is in the right time and place to take advantage of those dynamics. Judging by how its stock has done in recent trading sessions, it seems that many investors agree with Stifel's conclusions. This is doubtlessly a company worth watching.
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Why Lumentum Holdings Stock Bounced 5% Higher Today

Shares of the electric carmaker Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) once again found the red today, as stocks extended their sell-off and another analyst lowered his price target on the stock. Tesla is trading about 5% lower as of 11:08 a.m. ET.
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Stifel Financial analyst Stephen Gengaro issued a report this morning, lowering his price target on Tesla by $19 to $455. This still implies over 72% upside, and Gengaro maintained his buy rating on the stock. Gengaro's near-term concerns are shared by a growing chorus of analysts who expect Tesla to report weaker first-quarter deliveries due to a slow launch of Tesla's new Model Y, a potential hit from CEO Elon Musk's foray into politics, and reports of vandalism to Tesla vehicles.
Still, Gengaro is bullish long-term and thinks current headwinds are near-term issues. "The ramp of the new Model Y, the best-selling car in the world in 2024, is clearly a short-term sales headwind," Gengaro said in his note. "As Model Y production ramps in 2025, we expect sales to accelerate."
Gengaro is also bullish on the upcoming launch of Tesla's unsupervised full-self-driving technology in Austin and the launch of a lower-cost vehicle later this year. Gengaro also thinks that the company's energy storage division could be another catalyst not baked into the stock price yet.
Weighing the risk-reward
Bearish analysts are more concerned about first-quarter deliveries, while bullish analysts are looking ahead to catalysts powered by Tesla's potential artificial intelligence capabilities, which Musk expects to power new businesses like self-driving and robotics. Those may pan out, but with Tesla still trading at 93 times forward earnings, I'm avoiding the stock for now.
At this kind of valuation, unexpected bad news from tariffs, the company's first-quarter earnings, or delays in future business launches could lead to big sell-offs, which is why I still don't like the risk-reward setup.
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Why Tesla Stock Is Down Again Today

Onetime investors' pet stock Freshpet (NASDAQ: FRPT) wasn't such a good boy over the past few days. On the back of a recommendation downgrade from one analyst and price target cuts from two others, investors sold out of the stock in recent trading sessions. That left it with a nearly 11% decline in price week-to-date as of Thursday evening, according to data compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Bye buy, says analyst
Of the three events, the most consequential was the downgrade. This occurred on Tuesday when Oppenheimer's Rupesh Parikh moved his Freshpet recommendation down one peg to perform (hold, in other words) from his former outperform (buy). In doing so, Parikh removed his $140 per share price target; it has not yet been replaced.
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According to reports, the analyst's new take on Freshpet is based on his observation that management has sounded more subdued about the company's prospects. He also characterized the company's latest guidance as "disappointing" and wrote that investors would be wise to wait for signs of top-line improvements.
This was compounded by those twin price target cuts, both of which were enacted at the beginning of the week.
Of the two, the more drastic was made by JPMorgan Chase prognosticator Ken Goldman, who now feels that Freshpet is fairly valued at $102 per share rather than his previous price target of $154. His peer Mark Astrachan of Stifel lowered his to $135 per share from $155. Both men kept their existing recommendations on the stock intact; these were neutral and buy, respectively.
A stock market treat?
I wouldn't necessarily bail from Freshpet, even though the stock has been in the investor doghouse since publishing its fourth-quarter and full-year results in February. I think its business strategy centered on healthy food products for our four-legged friends is a solid one, and the company is proving that it can grow its business robustly. This might be a good "buy on weakness" candidate.
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