SEI Investments (SEIC) Competitors

State Street (NYSE:STT) and SEI Investments (NASDAQ:SEIC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, risk, community ranking and dividends.

Do analysts recommend STT or SEIC?

State Street presently has a consensus target price of $102.15, indicating a potential upside of 4.53%. SEI Investments has a consensus target price of $87.60, indicating a potential upside of 2.35%. Given State Street's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe State Street is more favorable than SEI Investments.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
State Street	1 Sell rating(s)	6 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.38
SEI Investments	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50

Which has better earnings and valuation, STT or SEIC?

State Street has higher revenue and earnings than SEI Investments. State Street is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SEI Investments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
State Street	$13.07B	2.13	$2.69B	$8.91	10.97
SEI Investments	$2.16B	4.92	$581.19M	$4.60	18.61

Which has more risk & volatility, STT or SEIC?

State Street has a beta of 1.42, indicating that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SEI Investments has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media refer more to STT or SEIC?

In the previous week, State Street had 8 more articles in the media than SEI Investments. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for State Street and 25 mentions for SEI Investments. State Street's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat SEI Investments' score of 0.84 indicating that State Street is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
State Street	21 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	5 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
SEI Investments	14 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do insiders & institutionals believe in STT or SEIC?

87.4% of State Street shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.6% of SEI Investments shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of State Street shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.6% of SEI Investments shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer STT or SEIC?

State Street received 297 more outperform votes than SEI Investments when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.47% of users gave SEI Investments an outperform vote while only 55.94% of users gave State Street an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
State Street	Outperform Votes 687 55.94%	Underperform Votes 541 44.06%
SEI Investments	Outperform Votes 390 58.47%	Underperform Votes 277 41.53%

Is STT or SEIC more profitable?

SEI Investments has a net margin of 27.35% compared to State Street's net margin of 12.14%. SEI Investments' return on equity of 25.51% beat State Street's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
State Street	12.14%	12.60%	0.83%
SEI Investments	27.35%	25.51%	22.21%

Is STT or SEIC a better dividend stock?

State Street pays an annual dividend of $3.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. SEI Investments pays an annual dividend of $0.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. State Street pays out 34.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SEI Investments pays out 21.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. State Street has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years and SEI Investments has raised its dividend for 34 consecutive years.

Summary

State Street beats SEI Investments on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.