SEIC vs. SF, JEF, MKTX, FRHC, VIRT, TROW, STT, NTRS, ARCC, and BEN
Should you be buying SEI Investments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SEI Investments include Stifel Financial (SF), Jefferies Financial Group (JEF), MarketAxess (MKTX), Freedom (FRHC), Virtu Financial (VIRT), T. Rowe Price Group (TROW), State Street (STT), Northern Trust (NTRS), Ares Capital (ARCC), and Franklin Resources (BEN). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Stifel Financial (NYSE:SF) and SEI Investments (NASDAQ:SEIC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
82.0% of Stifel Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.6% of SEI Investments shares are held by institutional investors. 4.6% of Stifel Financial 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 large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SEI Investments has a net margin of 24.80% compared to SEI Investments' net margin of 11.34%. Stifel Financial's return on equity of 22.91% beat SEI Investments' return on equity.
Stifel Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. SEI Investments pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Stifel Financial pays out 38.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SEI Investments pays out 25.1% 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. Stifel Financial has raised its dividend for 8 consecutive years and SEI Investments has raised its dividend for 33 consecutive years.
Stifel Financial has higher revenue and earnings than SEI Investments. Stifel Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SEI Investments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Stifel Financial has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SEI Investments has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Stifel Financial presently has a consensus price target of $84.50, suggesting a potential upside of 4.39%. SEI Investments has a consensus price target of $71.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.86%. Given Stifel Financial's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe SEI Investments is more favorable than Stifel Financial.
In the previous week, Stifel Financial and Stifel Financial both had 6 articles in the media. Stifel Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat SEI Investments' score of 0.52 indicating that SEI Investments is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SEI Investments received 109 more outperform votes than Stifel Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.40% of users gave SEI Investments an outperform vote while only 55.56% of users gave Stifel Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
SEI Investments beats Stifel Financial on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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