Company: SFB
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-094691
Chunk: 46

Company: STIFEL FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 46
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’s non-PEONEO CAPs with the following measures of financial performance, against the covered fiscal years: Total Shareholder Return (TSR), Net Income and Non-GAAP Pre-TaxNet Income. The first chart also illustrates the relationship between Company TSR and Peer Group TSR, as presented in the Pay versus Performance table. TSR figures are rounded to the nearest dollar. All other figures are rounded to the nearest hundred-thousand dollars.

| CAP versus Company TSRand peer Group TSR |     | CAP versus Net Income (Loss) |     | CAP versus Non-GAAPNet Income (Loss) |

COMPENSATION COMMITTEE REPORT ON EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION The responsibilities of the Committee are provided in its charter, which has been approved by our Board. In fulfilling its oversight responsibilities with respect to the Compensation Discussion and Analysis included in this Report, the Committee, among other things, has:

| u | Reviewed and discussed the Compensation Discussion and Analysis with our management; and |

| u | Following such review, the Committee has recommended the inclusion of such Compensation Discussion and Analysis in this Proxy Statement. |

Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of Stifel Financial Corp. David A. Peacock, Chair Adam T. Berlew Robert E. Grady

| Proxy Statement for the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders |     | 58 |

## ITEM 2. AN ADVISORY VOTE TO APPROVE EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION (SAY ON PAY)Our Board unanimously recommends a vote FOR the resolution approving the executive compensation of our named executive officers.In deciding how to vote on this proposal, you are encouraged to consider the description of the Committee’s executive compensation philosophy and its decisions in the“Compensation Discussion and Analysis” section of this Proxy Statement beginning on page 23 and the Summary Compensation Tables beginning on page 48.Our Board recognizes the fundamental interest our shareholders have in executive compensation. Our say on pay vote gives our shareholders the opportunity to cast an advisory vote to approve the compensation of all of our named executive officers.Say on Pay VoteAs required by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, we are required by Section 14A of the Exchange Act to provide shareholders with an advisory vote on executive compensation. Our Board recommended, and our shareholders approved, to hold this advisory vote on an annual basis. Although the vote is advisory and is not binding on the Board, the Compensation Committee, or the Company, the Compensation Committee will take into account the outcome of the vote when considering future executive