Company: SFB
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-094691
Chunk: 33

Company: STIFEL FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
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 the Company’s current financial performance. These non-GAAPamounts exclude litigation-related expenses associated with previously disclosed legal matters and certain compensation and non-compensationoperating expenses associated with acquisitions. A limitation of utilizing the non-GAAPmeasures described above is that the GAAP accounting effects of these merger-related charges do in fact reflect the underlying financial results of the Company’s business and these effects should not be ignored in evaluating and analyzing its financial results. Therefore, the Company believes that GAAP measures of net revenues, income before income taxes, net income, compensation expense ratios, pre-taxmargin and diluted earnings per share and the same respective non-GAAPmeasures of the Company’s financial performance should be considered together.

| Proxy Statement for the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders |     | 47 |

SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE The following table presents summary information concerning compensation earned in the 2024, 2023, and 2022 fiscal years by our CEO, CFO and each of our other three most highly compensated executive officers employed at the end of 2024 for services rendered to us and our subsidiaries. Pursuant to SEC rules, the 2024 Summary Compensation Table is required to include for a particular year only those equity-based awards granted during that year, rather than awards granted after that year’s end, even if awarded for services in that year. SEC rules require disclosure of cash incentive compensation to be included in the year earned, even if payment is made after year-end. A summary of the Committee’s decisions on the compensation awarded to our named executive officers for 2024 performance (which, in accordance with SEC rules, are in large part not reflected in the 2024 Summary Compensation Table) can be found in the “Compensation Discussion and Analysis” beginning on page 23.

| Name and Principal Position                                           |     | Year |      |     | Salary ($) |         |     | Bonus    ($) (1) |           |     | Stock Awards ($) (2) |           |     | All Other   Compen- 
          sation (3) |         |     |  Total ($) |            |
| Ronald J. Kruszewski  Chairman and  Chief Executive Officer           |     |      | 2024 |     |            | 200,000 |     |                  | 5,920,000 |     |                      | 9,040,000 |     |                     | 922,515 |     |