Raymond James unit teams up with FNZ to digitize wealth management in Canada, aiming to boost client service and advisor support.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., May 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On May 21, 2025, the Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF) Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend on shares of its common stock of $0.50 per share, payable July 15, 2025 to shareholders of record on July 1, 2025.
Raymond James Financial gets its prior buy rating from last fall reaffirmed. Positives are macro/sector and company factors that could positively impact the top-line growth, along with proven dividend growth and operating cash flow. Although the firm's valuation has increased, my future price targets point to further potential growth in the share price, as a BoA analyst recently also forecasted.
Weak IB performance and higher expenses hurt RJF's fiscal Q2 earnings.
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While the top- and bottom-line numbers for Raymond James Financial (RJF) give a sense of how the business performed in the quarter ended March 2025, it could be worth looking at how some of its key metrics compare to Wall Street estimates and year-ago values.
Raymond James Financial, Inc. (RJF) came out with quarterly earnings of $2.42 per share, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.44 per share. This compares to earnings of $2.31 per share a year ago.
Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF) today reported net revenues of $3.40 billion and net income available to common shareholders of $493 million, or $2.36 per diluted share, for the fiscal second quarter ended March 31, 2025. Excluding $19 million of expenses related to acquisitions, quarterly adjusted net income available to common shareholders was $507 million(1), or $2.42 per diluted share(1).
Higher IB and trading fee income are likely to support RJF's second-quarter fiscal 2025 results, while higher expenses and lower NII are likely to hurt.
Beyond analysts' top -and-bottom-line estimates for Raymond James Financial (RJF), evaluate projections for some of its key metrics to gain a better insight into how the business might have performed for the quarter ended March 2025.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., April 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Raymond James continues its investment in artificial intelligence as a crucial component of service excellence with the launch of its proprietary AI Search technology. Powered by generative artificial intelligence, AI Search enables both financial advisors and associates to ask intuitive, natural language questions to the firm's vast internal knowledge base and receive precise, tailored information in return, according to Stuart Feld, newly appointed chief artificial intelligence officer.
Raymond James Financial (RJF) doesn't possess the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations.