Stifel Financial Corp (SF)

Investment bank and wealth manager, 2,300 advisors. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 24, 2026. Ranked 72 of the 101 Financial Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

A brokerage and investment bank whose filing states over 9,000 associates with 2,300 financial advisors and no count by business, so the securities pattern leads with a tenth at its bank by description.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 36% now, 61% at the end of 2027, 71% at the end of 2028, 73% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 73% desk work, 23% people work and 4% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 26% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 63% becomes checking a model's work and 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

9,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated: associates are located primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and Canada, with no count by country.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had over 9,000 associates, including more than 2,300 financial advisors, located primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and Canada.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: Over 9,000 associates as of December 31, 2025, including more than 2,300 financial advisors; located primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and Canada; an on-site health clinic and fitness center at the St. Louis headquarters.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Morgan Stanley (MS, 83,000 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028
• State Street Corporation (STT, 52,000 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028
• Bank of New York Mellon Corp (BNY, 48,100 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028
• The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS, 47,400 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028
• S&P Global Inc. (SPGI, 44,500 employees)32% now, 70% by 2028
• The Charles Schwab Corporation (SCHW, 33,000 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028
• BlackRock, Inc. (BLK, 24,900 employees)35% now, 71% by 2028
• Northern Trust Corporation (NTRS, 23,800 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

38 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing recounts state privacy laws on the development and deployment of AI and the EU's Artificial Intelligence Act as compliance challenges for firms using AI-related technologies.

• “Certain U.S. states have recently enacted privacy and data protection regulation related to the development and deployment of artificial intelligence ("AI").”
• “These laws intersect with existing privacy laws and present challenges for firms using AI-related technologies, particularly in cases where personal information is processed requiring notice disclosure and, in certain cases, consent for use of AI.”
• “Artificial Intelligence Act, which has tiered compliance dates, poses further challenges for organizations in managing transparency, fairness, and accountability for AI use.”
• “Sliney leads our company's technology and operational areas with emphasis on cloud, data, and AI capabilities.”
• “Furthermore, both financial institutions and their non-banking competitors face the risk that payments processing and other services could be significantly disrupted by technologies (e.g., AI, online trading platforms, digital payment technologies) that require no intermediation.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20221median 0
• Fiscal 20231median 1
• Fiscal 202417median 4
• Fiscal 202538median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The U.S. share is not stated.
• No count by business: the bank's share is by description (c).

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-067130, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.