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.
SEI Investments (NASDAQ:SEIC) and Stifel Financial (NYSE:SF) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment and valuation.
SEI Investments has a net margin of 24.80% compared to Stifel Financial's net margin of 11.34%. SEI Investments' return on equity of 22.91% beat Stifel Financial's return on equity.
SEI Investments currently has a consensus price target of $71.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.80%. Stifel Financial has a consensus price target of $84.50, indicating a potential upside of 8.04%. Given SEI Investments' higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe SEI Investments is more favorable than Stifel Financial.
SEI Investments has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Stifel Financial has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, SEI Investments had 3 more articles in the media than Stifel Financial. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for SEI Investments and 2 mentions for Stifel Financial. Stifel Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat SEI Investments' score of 1.14 indicating that Stifel Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SEI Investments pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Stifel Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. SEI Investments pays out 25.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Stifel Financial pays out 38.2% 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.
70.6% of SEI Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.0% of Stifel Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.3% of SEI Investments shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.6% of Stifel Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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.
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.
Summary
SEI Investments beats Stifel Financial on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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