Investment Brokerage: Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE:SF), Investment Technology Group (NYSE:ITG), Greenhill & Co., Inc. (NYSE:GHL), SWS Group Inc (NYSE:SWS)

Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE:SF), SVP Stephen Chad Estep unloaded 1,380 shares of Stifel Financial Corp. stock on the open market in a transaction dated Tuesday, June 17th. The shares were sold at an average price of $47.00, for a total transaction of $64,860.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the senior vice president now directly owns 909 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $42,723. Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE:SF), net profit margin is 9.80% and weekly performance is 2.27%. On last trading day company shares ended up $48.18. Analysts mean target price for the company is $47.67. Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE:SF), distance from 50-day simple moving average (SMA50) is 3.97%.

Zacks downgraded shares of Investment Technology Group (NYSE:ITG), from an outperform rating to a neutral rating in a report issued on Tuesday. They currently have $19.30 target price on the stock. Investment Technology Group (NYSE:ITG), advanced 0.41% in last trading session and ended the day on $17.06. ITG, return on assets is 1.30%. Investment Technology Group (NYSE:ITG), quarterly performance is -15.96%.

Sandler O’Neill upgraded shares of Greenhill & Co., Inc. (NYSE:GHL), from a hold rating to a buy rating in a report issued on Wednesday,TheFlyOnTheWall.com reports. Greenhill & Co., Inc. (NYSE:GHL), shares moved up 0.79% in last trading session and was closed at $48.23, while trading in range of $47.98 – 48.55. Greenhill & Co., Inc. (NYSE:GHL), year to date (YTD) performance is -15.28%.

TheStreet upgraded shares of SWS Group Inc (NYSE:SWS), from a sell rating to a hold rating in a research report sent to investors on Thursday morning, AnalystRatingsNetwork reports. SWS Group Inc (NYSE:SWS), ended the last trading day at $7.40. Company weekly volatility is calculated as 1.83% and price to cash ratio as 2.79. SWS Group Inc (NYSE:SWS),showed a positive weekly performance of 2.35%.