JEF vs. SEIC, SF, MKTX, FRHC, HOOD, PIPR, VIRT, NMR, RJF, and CUBE
Should you be buying Jefferies Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Jefferies Financial Group include SEI Investments (SEIC), Stifel Financial (SF), MarketAxess (MKTX), Freedom (FRHC), Robinhood Markets (HOOD), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), Virtu Financial (VIRT), Nomura (NMR), Raymond James (RJF), and CubeSmart (CUBE). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Jefferies Financial Group (NYSE:JEF) and SEI Investments (NASDAQ:SEIC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
60.9% of Jefferies Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.6% of SEI Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.4% of Jefferies Financial Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.5% of SEI Investments shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SEI Investments has a net margin of 24.08% compared to Jefferies Financial Group's net margin of 5.90%. SEI Investments' return on equity of 22.40% beat Jefferies Financial Group's return on equity.
Jefferies Financial Group received 106 more outperform votes than SEI Investments when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.40% of users gave SEI Investments an outperform vote while only 53.89% of users gave Jefferies Financial Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Jefferies Financial Group had 6 more articles in the media than SEI Investments. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Jefferies Financial Group and 16 mentions for SEI Investments. SEI Investments' average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Jefferies Financial Group's score of 0.81 indicating that SEI Investments is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SEI Investments has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
Jefferies Financial Group currently has a consensus target price of $43.33, suggesting a potential downside of 0.20%. SEI Investments has a consensus target price of $71.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.80%. Given SEI Investments' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe SEI Investments is more favorable than Jefferies Financial Group.
Jefferies Financial Group has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SEI Investments has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Jefferies Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. SEI Investments pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. 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 pays out 26.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
SEI Investments beats Jefferies Financial Group on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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