Stifel Financial Corporation (SF) Dividends

SF Price Forecast Based on Dividend Discount Model

For dividend yielding stocks, the Dividend Discount Model (DDM) is a common valuation tool; it attempts to extrapolate a fair share price based primarily on the dividend the stock provides relative to a number of other quantiative aspects of its business. As for SF, the dividend discount model StockNews created for the company implies a negative return of 84.63%. To help understand and contextualize the model's evaluation of SF, investors may wish to consider are:

• In comparison to other US listed dividend yielding stocks in the Financial Services sector, the expected return of -84.63%, based on the stock's current share price and target price based on a dividend discount model, is greater than 3.89% of the DDM-forecasted return of its its sector peers.
• Compared to all dividend issuing stocks in our set, SF has a discount rate lower than 3.89% of them (a lower discount rate is associated with lower risk).
• Beta tells us how volatile a stock's price is relative to the broader equity index; as for SF, approximately 5.74% of US-listed dividend issuers had a higher beta, and thus may have greater price volatility.
• As other dividend issuers in the Financial Services sector, SF's equity discount rate is less than 6.81% of those stocks.

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