Tranche Update on Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE:SF)'s Equity Buyback Plan announced on May 6, 2005.

Stifel Financial Corp. is a financial holding company. The Company's principal subsidiary is Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated, a full-service retail and institutional wealth management and investment banking company. Its segment includes Global Wealth Management, Institutional Group, and others. Its Global Wealth Management segment consists of two businesses, the Private Client Group and Stifel Bancorp. The Private Client Group provides securities brokerage services, including the sale of equities, mutual funds, fixed income products, and insurance, as well as offering banking products to its private clients through its bank subsidiaries, which provide residential, consumer, commercial lending, and FDIC-insured deposit accounts to customers. The Institutional Group segment includes institutional sales and trading. The Other segment includes interest income from stock borrow activities, unallocated interest expense, interest income and gains and losses from investments.