$JEF
Jefferies Financial Group Inc. Stock $jef

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2020 Q1 Form 10-Q Financial Statement

#000009622320000025 Filed on April 08, 2020

Income Statement

Concept	2020 Q1	2019 Q1
Revenue	$1.692B	$1.195B
YoY Change	41.61%	2.92%
Cost Of Revenue	$72.44M	$66.92M
YoY Change	8.25%	-18.32%
Gross Profit	$1.620B	$1.128B
YoY Change	43.59%	4.53%
Gross Profit Margin	95.72%	94.4%
Selling, General & Admin	$968.0M	$630.7M
YoY Change	53.48%	-11.91%
% of Gross Profit	59.76%	55.91%
Research & Development
YoY Change
% of Gross Profit
Depreciation & Amortization	$39.47M	$33.93M
YoY Change	16.31%	20.5%
% of Gross Profit	2.44%	3.01%
Operating Expenses	$1.007B	$664.6M
YoY Change	51.58%	-10.68%
Operating Profit	$612.4M	$463.5M
YoY Change	32.13%	38.32%
Interest Expense	$21.55M	$23.02M
YoY Change	-6.36%	7.07%
% of Operating Profit	3.52%	4.97%
Other Income/Expense, Net
YoY Change
Pretax Income	$157.8M	$49.32M
YoY Change	219.96%	30.6%
Income Tax	$45.80M	$2.300M
% Of Pretax Income	29.03%	4.66%
Net Earnings	$113.0M	$44.81M
YoY Change	152.19%	-64.01%
Net Earnings / Revenue	6.68%	3.75%
Basic Earnings Per Share	$0.37	$0.14
Diluted Earnings Per Share	$0.37	$0.14
COMMON SHARES
Basic Shares Outstanding	302.4M shares	315.2M shares
Diluted Shares Outstanding	308.3M shares	318.8M shares

Balance Sheet

Concept	2020 Q1	2019 Q1
SHORT-TERM ASSETS
Cash & Short-Term Investments	$6.711B	$5.517B
YoY Change	21.64%	7.23%
Cash & Equivalents	$6.711B	$5.517B
Short-Term Investments
Other Short-Term Assets
YoY Change
Inventory
Prepaid Expenses
Receivables
Other Receivables
Total Short-Term Assets	$13.95B	$12.75B
YoY Change	9.41%	7.51%
LONG-TERM ASSETS
Property, Plant & Equipment	$929.0M
YoY Change
Goodwill	$1.739B	$1.705B
YoY Change	2.01%	-1.09%
Intangibles	$178.8M	$185.8M
YoY Change	-3.8%	-74.44%
Long-Term Investments	$1.563B	$2.381B
YoY Change	-34.37%	6.63%
Other Assets	$742.0M	$1.263B
YoY Change	-41.25%	-20.06%
Total Long-Term Assets	$37.83B	$36.21B
YoY Change	4.47%	-2.51%
TOTAL ASSETS
Total Short-Term Assets	$13.95B	$12.75B
Total Long-Term Assets	$37.83B	$36.21B
Total Assets	$51.78B	$48.96B
YoY Change	5.76%	-0.09%
SHORT-TERM LIABILITIES
YoY Change
Accounts Payable	$9.447B	$7.294B
YoY Change	29.52%	-0.57%
Accrued Expenses	$607.0M
YoY Change
Deferred Revenue
YoY Change
Short-Term Debt	$623.2M	$530.5M
YoY Change	17.47%	13.34%
Long-Term Debt Due
YoY Change
Total Short-Term Liabilities	$20.99B	$19.37B
YoY Change	8.39%	5.1%
LONG-TERM LIABILITIES
Long-Term Debt	$11.50B	$9.338B
YoY Change	23.13%	-5.49%
Other Long-Term Liabilities	$9.879B	$10.28B
YoY Change	-3.88%	2.86%
Total Long-Term Liabilities	$21.38B	$19.62B
YoY Change	8.98%	-1.29%
TOTAL LIABILITIES
Total Short-Term Liabilities	$20.99B	$19.37B
Total Long-Term Liabilities	$21.38B	$19.62B
Total Liabilities	$42.24B	$38.86B
YoY Change	8.71%	1.79%
SHAREHOLDERS EQUITY
Retained Earnings	$6.001B	$5.615B
YoY Change	6.87%	16.17%
Common Stock	$3.607B	$3.979B
YoY Change	-9.36%	-21.49%
Preferred Stock
YoY Change
Treasury Stock (at cost)
YoY Change
Treasury Stock Shares	39.35M shares	18.66M shares
Shareholders Equity	$9.349B	$9.933B
YoY Change
Total Liabilities & Shareholders Equity	$51.78B	$48.96B
YoY Change	5.76%	-0.09%

Cashflow Statement

Concept	2020 Q1	2019 Q1
OPERATING ACTIVITIES
Net Income	$113.0M	$44.81M
YoY Change	152.19%	-64.01%
Depreciation, Depletion And Amortization	$39.47M	$33.93M
YoY Change	16.31%	20.5%
Cash From Operating Activities	-$918.1M	-$784.0M
YoY Change	17.11%	93.45%
INVESTING ACTIVITIES
Capital Expenditures	-$61.00M	-$46.10M
YoY Change	32.32%	8.98%
Acquisitions
YoY Change
Other Investing Activities	-$2.560M	$0.00
YoY Change		-100.0%
Cash From Investing Activities	-$49.31M	$1.075B
YoY Change	-104.59%	-518.62%
FINANCING ACTIVITIES
Cash Dividend Paid
YoY Change
Common Stock Issuance & Retirement, Net	$310.2M	$214.7M
YoY Change	44.5%	7850.41%
Debt Paid & Issued, Net
YoY Change
Cash From Financing Activities	-$316.2M	-$38.34M
YoY Change	724.7%	-104.38%
NET CHANGE
Cash From Operating Activities	-$918.1M	-$784.0M
Cash From Investing Activities	-$49.31M	$1.075B
Cash From Financing Activities	-$316.2M	-$38.34M
Net Change In Cash	-$1.286B	$265.8M
YoY Change	-584.09%	23.56%
FREE CASH FLOW
Cash From Operating Activities	-$918.1M	-$784.0M
Capital Expenditures	-$61.00M	-$46.10M
Free Cash Flow	-$857.1M	-$737.9M
YoY Change	16.16%	103.29%

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CY2020Q1	us-gaap	Nature Of Operations NatureOfOperations	Nature of Operations<div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br/></span></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:10px;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">Jefferies Financial Group Inc. ("Jefferies," "we," "our" or the "Company") is a diversified financial services company engaged in investment banking and capital markets, asset management and direct investing. Jefferies Group LLC ("Jefferies Group"), our largest subsidiary, is the largest independent full-service global investment banking firm headquartered in the U.S. </span></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:10px;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">Jefferies Group operates in </span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><span>two</span></span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> business segments: Investment Banking and Capital Markets and Asset Management. Investment Banking and Capital Markets includes investment banking, capital markets and other related services. Investment banking provides underwriting and financial advisory services to clients across most industry sectors in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Capital markets businesses operate across the spectrum of equities, fixed income and foreign exchange products. Related services include, among other things, prime brokerage and equity finance, research and strategy, corporate lending and real estate finance. </span></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:10px;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">Our Asset Management segment includes both the operations of Leucadia Asset Management ("LAM") as well as the asset management operations within Jefferies Group. Within Asset Management, we manage, invest in and provide services to a diverse group of alternative asset management platforms across a spectrum of investment strategies and asset classes. Asset Management offers institutional clients an innovative range of investment strategies through its affiliated managers.</span></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">Merchant Banking is where we own a portfolio of businesses and investments, including Linkem (fixed wireless broadband services in Italy); Vitesse Energy, LLC ("Vitesse Energy Finance") and JETX Energy, LLC ("JETX Energy") (oil and gas production and development); real estate, primarily including HomeFed LLC ("HomeFed"); Idaho Timber (manufacturing); FXCM Group, LLC ("FXCM") (provider of online foreign exchange trading services); and The We Company (global network of workspaces). Our Merchant Banking businesses and investments also included National Beef Packing Company, LLC ("National Beef") (beef processing), prior to its sale in November 2019 and Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. ("Spectrum Brands") (consumer products), prior to its distribution to shareholders in October 2019. The structure of each of our investments was tailored to the unique opportunity each transaction presented. Our investments may be reflected in our consolidated results as consolidated subsidiaries, equity investments, securities or in other ways, depending on the structure of our specific holdings.</span></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br/></span></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">We own approximately </span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><span>42%</span></span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> of the common shares of Linkem, as well as convertible preferred shares which, if converted, would increase our ownership to approximately </span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><span>54%</span></span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> of Linkem's common equity at </span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">February 29, 2020</span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">. Linkem provides residential broadband services in Italy using LTE technologies deployed over the 3.5 GHz spectrum band. Linkem is accounted for under the equity method. </span></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br/></span></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">Vitesse Energy Finance is our </span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><span>97%</span></span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> owned consolidated subsidiary that acquires and invests in non-operated working interests and royalties predominantly in the Bakken Shale oil field in North Dakota. JETX Energy is our </span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><span>98%</span></span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> owned consolidated subsidiary that currently has non-operated working interests and acreage in east Texas.</span></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;padding-top:16px;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">HomeFed is our consolidated subsidiary that owns and develops residential and mixed use real estate properties. Prior to July 1, 2019, we owned approximately </span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><span>70%</span></span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> of HomeFed and accounted for it under the equity method. On July 1, 2019, we completed a merger with HomeFed by which we acquired the remaining common stock of HomeFed. From July 1, 2019, the results of HomeFed are reflected on a consolidated basis.</span></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">Idaho Timber is our consolidated subsidiary engaged in the manufacture and distribution of various wood products.</span></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br/></span></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">Our investment in FXCM and associated companies consist of a senior secured term loan due February 15, 2021, (</span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><span>$71.6 million</span></span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> principal outstanding at </span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">February 29, 2020</span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">); a </span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><span>50%</span></span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> voting interest in FXCM and rights to a majority of all distributions in respect of the equity of FXCM.</span></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;padding-top:16px;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">We invested </span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><span>$9.0 million</span></span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> in 2013 in The We Company, which creates collaborative office communities, and have received </span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><span>$31.0 million</span></span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> in cash to date. We own less than </span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><span>1%</span></span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"> of The We Company. Our interest in The We Company is reflected in Financial instruments owned, at fair value in our financial statements.</span></div>
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