B. Riley Financial (NASDAQ:RILY) Updates FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

B. Riley Financial (NASDAQ:RILY) issued an update on its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Friday morning. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 8.980-9.160 for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $960.2 million-$971.7 million. B. Riley Financial also updated its Q4 2025 guidance to 1.960-2.140 EPS.

B. Riley Financial Stock Performance

RILY stock opened at $9.20 on Friday. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $5.88 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $5.71. The company has a market capitalization of $281.52 million, a P/E ratio of 1.30 and a beta of 1.24. B. Riley Financial has a 52-week low of $2.67 and a 52-week high of $10.97.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several analysts have recently issued reports on the stock. Wall Street Zen upgraded shares of B. Riley Financial from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Saturday, December 20th. Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a “sell (e+)” rating on shares of B. Riley Financial in a research report on Monday, December 29th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Sell rating, According to MarketBeat.com, B. Riley Financial has an average rating of “Sell”.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the stock. XTX Topco Ltd increased its stake in shares of B. Riley Financial by 4.2% during the 2nd quarter. XTX Topco Ltd now owns 62,517 shares of the asset manager’s stock worth $186,000 after purchasing an additional 2,531 shares during the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE grew its holdings in B. Riley Financial by 237.2% during the third quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 6,963 shares of the asset manager’s stock valued at $42,000 after purchasing an additional 4,898 shares during the period. Engineers Gate Manager LP increased its position in B. Riley Financial by 70.0% in the second quarter. Engineers Gate Manager LP now owns 17,106 shares of the asset manager’s stock worth $51,000 after buying an additional 7,044 shares during the last quarter. Russell Investments Group Ltd. raised its stake in shares of B. Riley Financial by 144.9% in the second quarter. Russell Investments Group Ltd. now owns 14,504 shares of the asset manager’s stock valued at $43,000 after buying an additional 8,582 shares during the period. Finally, Vanguard Group Inc. raised its stake in shares of B. Riley Financial by 1.2% in the third quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 851,840 shares of the asset manager’s stock valued at $5,090,000 after buying an additional 10,189 shares during the period. 50.20% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

B. Riley Financial Company Profile

B. Riley Financial, Inc, headquartered in Los Angeles, California, is a diversified financial services company offering a broad range of advisory and investment solutions to individual, corporate and institutional clients. Since its founding in 1997 by Bryant E. Riley, the firm has expanded its capabilities across two primary segments: financial solutions and operations solutions. Its financial solutions segment provides investment banking services, equity research, merger and acquisition advisory, corporate finance, restructuring advisory and private capital solutions.

In addition to traditional investment banking, B.