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About Jefferies Financial Group Inc.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc. operates as a diversified global financial services firm, primarily focused on investment banking, capital markets, and asset management. Its extensive operations span the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. The company organizes its activities into distinct segments: Investment Banking and Capital Markets, Asset Management, Merchant Banking, and Corporate. Jefferies delivers a comprehensive suite of investment banking services, offering strategic advisory for mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, recapitalizations, and private capital transactions. This also includes underwriting for both equity and debt issuances, as well as corporate lending. Beyond advisory and underwriting, the firm provides financing, securities lending, and other prime brokerage solutions. It further supports clients with equities research, financing, and wealth management services. In its capital markets segment, Jefferies engages in the sales and trading of a wide array of fixed-income products. This encompasses investment-grade corporate bonds, U.S. and European government and agency securities, municipal bonds, mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities, leveraged and consumer loans, high-yield and distressed debt, and emerging markets debt. The firm also deals in interest rate and credit derivative products, performs foreign exchange trade execution, and offers securitization services. Within asset management, Jefferies is involved in the management, investment, and servicing of diverse alternative asset management platforms, covering numerous investment strategies and asset classes. Founded in 1962 and headquartered in New York, New York, the company was formerly known as Leucadia National Corporation until it officially changed its name to Jefferies Financial Group Inc. in May 2018.
JEF stock facts
| Ticker symbol | JEF |
| Exchange | New York Stock Exchange |
| Sector | Financial Services |
| Industry | Financial - Capital Markets |
| Market cap | $9.7B |
| CEO | Richard Brian Handler |
| Employees | 7,371 |
| Headquarters | New York City, NY, US |
| IPO date | 1980-03-17 |
| Website | www.jefferies.com |
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The ticker symbol for Jefferies Financial Group Inc. is JEF, listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
What is JEF?
Jefferies Financial Group Inc. operates as a diversified global financial services firm, primarily focused on investment banking, capital markets, and asset management. Its extensive operations span the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. The company organizes its activities into distinct segments: Investment Banking and Capital Markets, Asset Management, Merchant Banking, and…