SEIC vs. HOOD, JEF, SF, MKTX, FRHC, NMR, VIRT, CS, PIPR, and NAVI
Should you be buying SEI Investments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SEI Investments include Robinhood Markets (HOOD), Jefferies Financial Group (JEF), Stifel Financial (SF), MarketAxess (MKTX), Freedom (FRHC), Nomura (NMR), Virtu Financial (VIRT), Credit Suisse Group (CS), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), and Navient (NAVI). These companies are all part of the "security brokers & dealers" industry.
SEI Investments vs.
SEI Investments (NASDAQ:SEIC) and Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ:HOOD) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and community ranking.
SEI Investments received 342 more outperform votes than Robinhood Markets when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.26% of users gave SEI Investments an outperform vote while only 25.69% of users gave Robinhood Markets an outperform vote.
SEI Investments has higher revenue and earnings than Robinhood Markets. Robinhood Markets is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SEI Investments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SEI Investments has a net margin of 20.88% compared to Robinhood Markets' net margin of -76.47%. SEI Investments' return on equity of 22.29% beat Robinhood Markets' return on equity.
SEI Investments has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Robinhood Markets has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Robinhood Markets had 8 more articles in the media than SEI Investments. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Robinhood Markets and 6 mentions for SEI Investments. SEI Investments' average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Robinhood Markets' score of 0.25 indicating that SEI Investments is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SEI Investments presently has a consensus target price of $60.80, suggesting a potential upside of 3.83%. Robinhood Markets has a consensus target price of $11.73, suggesting a potential upside of 28.59%. Given Robinhood Markets' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Robinhood Markets is more favorable than SEI Investments.
69.5% of SEI Investments shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.8% of Robinhood Markets shares are held by institutional investors. 25.4% of SEI Investments shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 20.8% of Robinhood Markets shares are held by 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.
Summary
SEI Investments beats Robinhood Markets on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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