APAM vs. SEIC, TROW, VRTS, AMG, BEN, BLK, BX, CNS, IVZ, and JHG
Should you be buying Artisan Partners Asset Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Artisan Partners Asset Management include SEI Investments (SEIC), T. Rowe Price Group (TROW), Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS), Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), Franklin Resources (BEN), BlackRock (BLK), Blackstone (BX), Cohen & Steers (CNS), Invesco (IVZ), and Janus Henderson Group (JHG). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Artisan Partners Asset Management vs. Its Competitors
Artisan Partners Asset Management (NYSE:APAM) and SEI Investments (NASDAQ:SEIC) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and institutional ownership.
Artisan Partners Asset Management presently has a consensus target price of $44.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.92%. SEI Investments has a consensus target price of $105.00, suggesting a potential upside of 29.28%. Given SEI Investments' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe SEI Investments is more favorable than Artisan Partners Asset Management.
Artisan Partners Asset Management has a beta of 1.72, indicating that its share price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SEI Investments has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SEI Investments has higher revenue and earnings than Artisan Partners Asset Management. Artisan Partners Asset Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SEI Investments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
86.5% of Artisan Partners Asset Management shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.6% of SEI Investments shares are held by institutional investors. 12.5% of Artisan Partners Asset Management shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.3% of SEI Investments shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, SEI Investments had 1 more articles in the media than Artisan Partners Asset Management. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for SEI Investments and 10 mentions for Artisan Partners Asset Management. SEI Investments' average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Artisan Partners Asset Management's score of 0.95 indicating that SEI Investments is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Artisan Partners Asset Management pays an annual dividend of $2.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. SEI Investments pays an annual dividend of $0.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Artisan Partners Asset Management pays out 77.7% 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 pays out 18.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SEI Investments has raised its dividend for 34 consecutive years.
SEI Investments has a net margin of 31.25% compared to Artisan Partners Asset Management's net margin of 23.87%. Artisan Partners Asset Management's return on equity of 71.72% beat SEI Investments' return on equity.
Summary
SEI Investments beats Artisan Partners Asset Management on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:APAM) was last updated on 10/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff