Jefferies Financial Group In is scored 34 for moat and 27 for management. The management score rests on a return on invested capital of 0.9% and a gross margin of 59.7% — figures that describe capital earning less than it costs to employ. The balance sheet carries debt at 2.25x equity, which magnifies both the returns above and the risk beneath them.
The price anchors are built on deliberately conservative assumptions. Growth is modelled at 9.2% a year, the rate measured from the filings. The exit multiple assumed is 18.5x. That produces an intrinsic value of $40.39, a 10-CAP price of $89.52 and a payback time price of $108.82, with the value zone set at the highest of the three, $108.82. Today's price of $45.25 sits inside that zone.
The price sits inside the value zone, but the business scores 34 for moat and 27 for management. Cheap and good are different tests, and only one of them is passed here.
| Price | $45.25 |
| Market cap | $9.2B |
| P/E ratio | 12.4x |
| Return on invested capital | 0.9% |
| Gross margin | 59.7% |
| Debt to equity | 2.25x |
| Free cash flow yield | -13.9% |
| Growth rate used | 9.2% |
| Growth rate measured | 9.0% |
| Exit multiple assumed | 18.5x |
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| Tradeweb Markets Inc-Class A (TW) | 94 | $80.10 |
| Robinhood Markets, Inc. (HOOD) | 72 | $34.05 |
Every number above is built on assumptions that can be changed. In Moatly you can move the growth rate, the exit multiple and the margin of safety and watch every figure recalculate, so you are testing your own view of Jefferies Financial Group In rather than accepting ours.