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Company snapshot — Steadfast Group Ltd

SDF.AU in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Steadfast Group runs a network of insurance broker and agency businesses across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Europe and the United States, selling both business and personal cover. It also owns an underwriting agency arm, a law firm focused on insurance disputes, and units that supply technology, back-office processing, risk assessment and financing services to brokers in its network. The group is based in Sydney and earns from broker commissions, agency margins and the services it sells to its own network members.
Where it sits in the stack
Steadfast sits outside our AI-build-out index; it belongs to the Financial Services sector, in the insurance brokerage sleeve of our wider coverage universe rather than any layer of the compute stack.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group list carries no entry for Steadfast; the market sometimes names Marsh McLennan and Aon as broadly comparable insurance brokers, though both operate at a larger, global scale.
Why Closelook tracks it
Steadfast holds no seat in our index and carries no Closelook score yet; the diary has not quoted it in any edition so far.
What the diary watches
Whether the group keeps adding broker and agency businesses to its network, since that consolidation, more than underlying premium growth, has shaped its recent size.

Steadfast Group Ltd (SDF.AU) trades on the AU exchange in Australia.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for SDF.AU, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Insurance Brokers · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Insurance Brokers

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against SDF.AU on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 3.66%, semi-annual · buybacks 3 m AUD in FY2026

Dividends and capital return

What SDF.AU pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 0.21 AUD per share · a 3.66% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 2 distributions, paid twice a year 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +7.5% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.19 AUD per share
  • Last distribution 0.13 AUD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-02
  • By calendar year 2025: 0.19 AUD (partial) · 2026: 0.21 AUD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-03-03
  • Dividends paid, FY2026 187 m AUD 82% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2026 3 m AUD 0.1% of today's market value
  • Share count +0.4% in FY2026
  • Capital returned 190 m AUD in a year of negative free cash flow dividends and buybacks together

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is Steadfast Group Ltd (SDF.AU)?

Steadfast Group Ltd trades as SDF.AU on the AU exchange (Australia) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is SDF.AU in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Steadfast Group Ltd is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

Where does SDF.AU trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +5.9% vs the 50-day and +21.1% vs the 200-day average, 10.6% below the 52-week high and +51.1% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 40 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Steadfast Group Ltd do?

Steadfast Group runs a network of insurance broker and agency businesses across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Europe and the United States, selling both business and personal cover. It also owns an underwriting agency arm, a law firm focused on insurance disputes, and units that supply technology, back-office processing, risk assessment and financing services to brokers in its network. The group is based in Sydney and earns from broker commissions, agency margins and the services it sells to its own network members. Closelook's peer group list carries no entry for Steadfast; the market sometimes names Marsh McLennan and Aon as broadly comparable insurance brokers, though both operate at a larger, global scale.

Where does Steadfast Group Ltd sit in the AI build-out?

Steadfast sits outside our AI-build-out index; it belongs to the Financial Services sector, in the insurance brokerage sleeve of our wider coverage universe rather than any layer of the compute stack. Steadfast holds no seat in our index and carries no Closelook score yet; the diary has not quoted it in any edition so far.

Does Steadfast Group Ltd pay a dividend?

Steadfast Group Ltd has paid 0.21 AUD per share over the last twelve months, paid twice a year, a trailing yield of 3.66% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.13 AUD on 2026-09-02. In fiscal 2026 the company paid 187 m AUD in dividends and bought back 3 m AUD of its own shares. The share count rose 0.4% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for SDF.AU, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Insurance Brokers, then Financial Services. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.