Raymond James Financial (RJF)
Forward P/E is 11.39x against a peer median of 14.09x, a ratio of 0.81x — below the fair range — with trailing P/E 13.66x and PEG 0.60. Latest-quarter revenue grew 15.6% year over year (PRIMARY, EDGAR), below the cluster median but strongly positive, so the value-trap check does not apply: revenue is not shrinking and the cluster median growth is positive. Delivered demand check: the Investment banking & brokerage group's median latest-quarter revenue growth was 24.0% year over year (SEC filings) — demand rising.
What would change this label: The fair band is 12.68x to 16.20x (0.90x to 1.15x the peer median of 14.09x). Move to FAIRLY PRICED if the forward P/E rises to 12.68x or above at unchanged estimates, or if revenue growth turns negative while PEG rises above 1.2. Move to OVERVALUED if the forward P/E rises above 16.20x without a matching upgrade to growth.
Raymond James provides wealth management and brokerage services, and the shares trade at about 11 times next year's expected earnings, below similar companies at about 14 times. Sales grew 15.6% in the latest quarter, a solid pace. Cheaper than its peers on solid growth makes the shares look undervalued.
Both lines start at 100 on 2020-09-01. Over the full window Raymond James Financial returned +214.15% and the S&P 500 +118.28% (price returns; dividends not reinvested). Worst peak-to-trough fall for Raymond James Financial: -32.7% (2022-11-10 to 2023-05-04). Source: Nasdaq official daily history.
What the label rests on
Forward P/E is 11.39x against a peer median of 14.09x, a ratio of 0.81x — below the fair range — with trailing P/E 13.66x and PEG 0.60. Latest-quarter revenue grew 15.6% year over year (PRIMARY, EDGAR), below the cluster median but strongly positive, so the value-trap check does not apply: revenue is not shrinking and the cluster median growth is positive. Delivered demand check: the Investment banking & brokerage group's median latest-quarter revenue growth was 24.0% year over year (SEC filings) — demand rising. The company’s forward P/E is 11.4× against a peer median of 14.1×. Its own history: UNVERIFIED — no sourced range available. Sector demand read: Delivered demand check: the Investment banking & brokerage group's median latest-quarter revenue growth was 24.0% year over year (SEC filings) — demand rising. Latest-quarter sales growth was +15.6% versus a year earlier (SEC filings).
| Company | Price (Oct 28, 2026) | Forward P/E | Trailing P/E |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raymond James Financial (RJF) | $156.85 | 11.4× | 13.7× |
| IBKR | $82.03 | 25.7× | 31.3× |
| HOOD | $91.14 | 33.0× | 42.0× |
| SCHW | $88.59 | 11.8× | 15.1× |
| GS | $920.00 | 12.8× | 13.2× |
| MS | $188.15 | 14.1× | 14.9× |
| Peer median | 14.1× |
Multiples: stockanalysis.com (SECONDARY, S&P Global data), fetched Oct 28, 2026. Peer set chosen by sector; the median is the middle value of the set. The label and its numbers were recorded in the programme’s label registry on Oct 28, 2026 and will be scored at 6 and 12 months.
Sales, profit and cash
This company does not report a gross-profit line in its SEC facts (normal for banks, payment networks and some health insurers), so profit is shown as net income instead — gross margin is marked UNVERIFIED-absent rather than estimated.
Free cash flow = cash from operations minus spending on plant and equipment, both from the company’s SEC cash-flow statement. Gaps are quarters where that spending line is not separately tagged in the filings — shown as gaps, never estimated.
| Quarter | Sales | Gross margin | Net income | EPS (GAAP, diluted) | Free cash flow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q/E Jun 2026 2026-06-30 | $3.9B | — | $595M | 3.01 | $-308M |
| Q/E Mar 2026 2026-03-31 | $3.9B | — | $544M | 2.72 | $1.1B |
| Q/E Dec 2025 2025-12-31 | $3.7B | — | $563M | 2.79 | $-56M |
| Q/E Sep 2025 2025-09-30 | $3.7B | — | $604M | — | $752M |
| Q/E Jun 2025 2025-06-30 | $3.4B | — | $436M | 2.12 | $634M |
| Q/E Mar 2025 2025-03-31 | $3.4B | — | $495M | 2.36 | $71M |
| Q/E Dec 2024 2024-12-31 | $3.5B | — | $600M | 2.86 | $789M |
| Q/E Sep 2024 2024-09-30 | $3.5B | — | $602M | — | $460M |
| Q/E Jun 2024 2024-06-30 | $3.2B | — | $492M | 2.31 | $655M |
| Q/E Mar 2024 2024-03-31 | $3.1B | — | $476M | 2.22 | $342M |
| Q/E Dec 2023 2023-12-31 | $3.0B | — | $498M | 2.32 | $493M |
| Q/E Sep 2023 2023-09-30 | $3.1B | — | $434M | — | $383M |
The last twelve reported quarters. Full 24-quarter history sits in the data pack behind this page. A dash means the figure is not tagged as a standalone quarter in the company’s SEC facts (the usual case is the fourth quarter, which many companies only report inside the full-year filing) — it is missing, not zero.
Earnings: getting better or worse?
Each box is one quarter’s earnings per share (EPS). Green means EPS was higher than the same quarter a year earlier; red means lower; a dash means the figure is not tagged in the filings.
Basis: GAAP diluted EPS from SEC company facts, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
Key facts
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Company (legal name in filings) | RAYMOND JAMES FINANCIAL INC |
| Chief executive | Paul Shoukry (source: https://news.utampa.edu/2026/ceo-of-raymond-james-shares--the-power-of-personal--with-student) |
| Sector | Financials — Investment Banking & Brokerage — provides wealth management, brokerage and investment banking services |
| Share price (Oct 28, 2026) | $156.85 |
| Market value (market cap) | $30.4B — share price times shares outstanding of 192,361,711 (SEC filings; SEC EDGAR dei EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding (latest)) |
| Sales, last twelve months | $15.2B |
| Net income, last twelve months | $2.3B |
| Free cash flow, last twelve months | $1.4B |
| Latest reported quarter | Q/E Jun 2026 (of 24 quarters in the data pack) |
| Six-year price return vs S&P 500 | +214.15% vs +118.28% |
| Worst peak-to-trough fall | -32.7% (2022-11-10 to 2023-05-04) |
What we could not verify
- Gross profit / gross margin: not tagged as a standalone line in this company's EDGAR company facts (common for banks, payment networks and some healthcare payers) — shown as UNVERIFIED-absent; the page charts revenue and net income instead.
- TTM GAAP diluted EPS could not be summed from company facts because at least one of the last four quarters (typically Q4) has no standalone tagged EPS; trailing P/E is therefore taken from the labelled secondary source in valuation_label.md.
- Own-history P/E range not yet compiled for this company in the Phase 1 batch run; the label rests on peer-median, growth and PEG evidence.
- Wikipedia infobox still lists Paul Reilly as chairman and CEO (stale); Paul Shoukry became CEO Feb 20, 2025 per Raymond James transition release, confirmed as current CEO in Oct 2026 UTampa article
- Guidance record (each quarter scored against the guidance the company gave the quarter before) is not yet compiled for this company — it is a Phase 2 layer. The earnings strip below therefore uses reported EPS versus a year earlier, which is fully sourced from filings.
The IT factor — the most exciting thing the market is overlooking — is not assessed on an X-Ray page. It belongs to the Deep Dive (Phase 2), where it gets the evidence standard it needs. Leadership-era scoring (the six years split by chief executive) is likewise a Phase 2 layer; this page names the current chief executive only, from a sourced profile.
Sources
- SEC EDGAR submissions — Filing index; company legal name.
https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0000720005.json - SEC EDGAR company facts — Quarterly financial spine: revenue, gross profit, net income, GAAP diluted EPS, operating cash flow, PP&E capex, buybacks, dividends, diluted shares.
https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0000720005.json - Nasdaq official daily history — Daily closes for the company; SPY (assetclass=etf) saved as raw/nasdaq_spy_raw.json over identical dates.
https://api.nasdaq.com/api/quote/RJF/historical?assetclass=stocks - Valuation multiples and peer figures — stockanalysis.com (SECONDARY, S&P Global data), fetched Oct 28, 2026; see valuation_label.md in the data pack.
Conventions: earliest-filed value per period, as first reported; cash-flow years-to-date differenced quarter by quarter; EPS never differenced; free cash flow = operating cash flow minus plant-and-equipment spending. This page is a dated snapshot — updates are new versions, never silent edits.