SEIC vs. JEF, SF, FUTU, MKTX, FRHC, PIPR, VIRT, HOOD, NMR, and AMTD
Should you be buying SEI Investments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SEI Investments include Jefferies Financial Group (JEF), Stifel Financial (SF), Futu (FUTU), MarketAxess (MKTX), Freedom (FRHC), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), Virtu Financial (VIRT), Robinhood Markets (HOOD), Nomura (NMR), and TD Ameritrade (AMTD).
SEI Investments (NASDAQ:SEIC) and Jefferies Financial Group (NYSE:JEF) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
SEI Investments pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Jefferies Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. SEI Investments pays out 25.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Jefferies Financial Group pays out 98.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
SEI Investments presently has a consensus price target of $71.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.11%. Jefferies Financial Group has a consensus price target of $44.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.28%. Given SEI Investments' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe SEI Investments is more favorable than Jefferies Financial Group.
Jefferies Financial Group received 111 more outperform votes than SEI Investments when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.40% of users gave SEI Investments an outperform vote while only 53.91% of users gave Jefferies Financial Group an outperform vote.
SEI Investments has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Jefferies Financial Group. SEI Investments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Jefferies Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, SEI Investments and SEI Investments both had 25 articles in the media. SEI Investments' average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Jefferies Financial Group's score of 0.60 indicating that SEI Investments is being referred to more favorably in the media.
70.6% of SEI Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.9% of Jefferies Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.5% of SEI Investments shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.4% of Jefferies Financial Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SEI Investments has a net margin of 24.80% compared to Jefferies Financial Group's net margin of 5.90%. SEI Investments' return on equity of 22.91% beat Jefferies Financial Group's return on equity.
SEI Investments has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Jefferies Financial Group has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
SEI Investments beats Jefferies Financial Group on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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