---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000720005-23-000068"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RJF"
cik: "0000720005"
company_name: "RAYMOND JAMES FINANCIAL INC"
filed_at: "2023-08-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-11T03:46:26.437858+00:00"
event_type: "dividend"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Raymond James declares quarterly dividends on common and preferred stock

## Summary
- Common stock quarterly dividend of $0.42 per share declared.
- Dividend payable Oct 16, 2023 to shareholders of record Oct 2, 2023.
- Preferred stock (RJF PrB) quarterly dividend of $0.3984375 per depositary share declared.
- Preferred dividend payable Oct 2, 2023 to holders of record Sep 15, 2023.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000720005-23-000068
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RJF
- cik: 0000720005
- company_name: RAYMOND JAMES FINANCIAL INC
- filed_at: 2023-08-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: dividend
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/720005/000072000523000068/0000720005-23-000068-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/720005/000072000523000068/rjf-20230821.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000720005-23-000068.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  RAYMOND JAMES FINANCIAL INC: Amended and restated by-laws to update provisions regarding shareholder proposals, director nominations, and procedural rules for annual meetings (effective 2023-08-21).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-08-21
  source text: On August 21, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Raymond James Financial, Inc., a Florida corporation (the “Company”), approved a resolution to amend and restate the Company’s By-laws (the “By-laws”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/720005/000072000523000068/0000720005-23-000068-index.htm

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