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Company snapshot — Stifel Financial Corporation

SF 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
Stifel Financial is the holding company for Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, a broker-dealer that runs wealth management and investment banking businesses. It serves individual investors through brokerage and financial planning, and serves companies, municipalities and institutions through equity and fixed income sales, trading, research and underwriting. It also runs a smaller banking arm offering commercial and personal lending and deposit accounts. It is based in Saint Louis, Missouri, and works across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and other markets.
Where it sits in the stack
Stifel carries no seat in our AI build-out index, so it sits outside that stack; it belongs to the capital markets sleeve of our broader financial services universe, alongside other diversified brokerage and advisory firms.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group has not been defined for this name; the market most often compares it with Raymond James, another diversified wealth management and investment banking firm of similar scale.
Why Closelook tracks it
Stifel holds a seat in the Russell 1000 but carries no Closelook score and no index seat in our build-out coverage, so the diary has not built any module view or quote history for it yet.
What the diary watches
Whether wealth management flows and investment banking fee income diverge, since a shift in that mix would change how the diary reads the stock relative to peers.

Stifel Financial Corporation (SF) trades on US exchanges.

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 SF, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Capital Markets · United States · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Capital Markets · United States

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 SF on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 1.76%, quarterly · last 0.34 USD on 2026-09-01

Dividends and capital return

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

  • Trailing 12 months 1.33 USD per share · a 1.76% yield on the 2026-09-17 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-17
  • Change on the year +10.3% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 1.20 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.34 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-01
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.24 USD (partial) · 2024: 1.13 USD · 2025: 1.23 USD · 2026: 1.02 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-11-30

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 Stifel Financial Corporation (SF)?

Stifel Financial Corporation trades as SF on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is SF in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Stifel Financial Corporation is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

Where does SF trade against its moving averages?

Mixed moving-average stack: Trades -6.4% vs the 50-day and -3.5% vs the 200-day average, 15.1% below the 52-week high and +11.4% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 18 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Stifel Financial Corporation do?

Stifel Financial is the holding company for Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, a broker-dealer that runs wealth management and investment banking businesses. It serves individual investors through brokerage and financial planning, and serves companies, municipalities and institutions through equity and fixed income sales, trading, research and underwriting. It also runs a smaller banking arm offering commercial and personal lending and deposit accounts. Closelook's peer group has not been defined for this name; the market most often compares it with Raymond James, another diversified wealth management and investment banking firm of similar scale.

Where does Stifel Financial Corporation sit in the AI build-out?

Stifel carries no seat in our AI build-out index, so it sits outside that stack; it belongs to the capital markets sleeve of our broader financial services universe, alongside other diversified brokerage and advisory firms. Stifel holds a seat in the Russell 1000 but carries no Closelook score and no index seat in our build-out coverage, so the diary has not built any module view or quote history for it yet.

Does Stifel Financial Corporation pay a dividend?

Stifel Financial Corporation has paid 1.33 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 1.76% on the 2026-09-17 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.34 USD on 2026-09-01. 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 SF, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Capital Markets. 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.