Jefferies Financial Group (JEF) is GoodHaven Capital Management’s Biggest Detractor

Investment management company GoodHaven Capital Management released its second-quarter 2022 investor letter. A copy of the same can be downloaded here. At the end of the first half of the year 2022, the fund outperformed the S&P 500 index declining by 3.86% compared to 8.85% for S&P 500 Index. The fund has been performing well over the last 2 semi-annual fiscal years. You can check the top 5 holdings of the fund to know its best picks in 2022.

GoodHaven Capital Management discussed stocks like Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (NYSE:JEF) in the second quarter investor letter. Headquartered in New York, New York, Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (NYSE:JEF) is an investment banking and financial services company. On August 25, 2022, Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (NYSE:JEF)  stock closed at $33.69 per share. One-month return of Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (NYSE:JEF) was 3.44% and its shares lost 10.49% of their value over the last 52 weeks. Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (NYSE:JEF)  has a market capitalization of $7.831 trillion.

Here is what GoodHaven Capital Management specifically said about Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (NYSE:JEF):

Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (NYSE:JEF) was our next biggest dollar detractor, and had also been a strong contributor in prior periods. As we have previously mentioned, while Jefferies has become a better business it is still a cyclical business, and that some moderating earnings after the recent boom were to be expected. In the first six months of their fiscal 2022, Jefferies earned a ROATE (Return on Adjusted Tangible Equity) of over 11%, reasonable given the very material slowdown in the capital markets lately. They also repurchased over $620 million of their shares at $34+ per share and Jefferies’ stock now trades below tangible book value/share. Given the obvious slowdown in capital raising transactions industry wide, we expect continued muted results in the near-term but also continued share buybacks. Our long-term enthusiasm remains, as does our view of the material upside for the shares from recent levels.”

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Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (NYSE:JEF) is not on our list of 30 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds. As per our database, 29 hedge fund portfolios held Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (NYSE:JEF) at the end of the first quarter which was 33 in the previous quarter.

We discussed Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (NYSE:JEF) in another article and shared the list of stocks that Izzy Englander sold in Q3 2021. In addition, please check out our hedge fund investor letters Q2 2022 page for more investor letters from hedge funds and other leading investors.

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