SEI Investments (SEIC) Competitors

State Street (NYSE:STT) 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, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.

Do analysts rate STT or SEIC?

State Street currently has a consensus target price of $103.69, suggesting a potential upside of 27.47%. SEI Investments has a consensus target price of $86.80, suggesting a potential upside of 18.48%. Given State Street's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe State Street is more favorable than SEI Investments.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
State Street	1 Sell rating(s)	6 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.38
SEI Investments	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.60

Does the MarketBeat Community favor STT or SEIC?

State Street received 300 more outperform votes than SEI Investments when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.60% of users gave SEI Investments an outperform vote while only 55.96% of users gave State Street an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
State Street	Outperform Votes 685 55.96%	Underperform Votes 539 44.04%
SEI Investments	Outperform Votes 385 58.60%	Underperform Votes 272 41.40%

Is STT or SEIC more profitable?

SEI Investments has a net margin of 27.35% compared to State Street's net margin of 12.14%. SEI Investments' return on equity of 25.51% beat State Street's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
State Street	12.14%	12.60%	0.83%
SEI Investments	27.35%	25.51%	22.21%

Does the media prefer STT or SEIC?

In the previous week, State Street had 3 more articles in the media than SEI Investments. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for State Street and 27 mentions for SEI Investments. State Street's average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat SEI Investments' score of 0.84 indicating that State Street is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
State Street	21 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	6 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
SEI Investments	13 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	8 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in STT or SEIC?

87.4% of State Street shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.6% of SEI Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of State Street shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.3% of SEI Investments shares are owned 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.

Is STT or SEIC a better dividend stock?

State Street pays an annual dividend of $3.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. SEI Investments pays an annual dividend of $0.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. State Street pays out 36.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SEI Investments pays out 22.2% 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. State Street has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years and SEI Investments has increased its dividend for 34 consecutive years.

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, STT or SEIC?

State Street has higher revenue and earnings than SEI Investments. State Street is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SEI Investments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
State Street	$12.92B	1.82	$2.69B	$8.24	9.87
SEI Investments	$2.13B	4.38	$581.19M	$4.42	16.57

Which has more risk & volatility, STT or SEIC?

State Street has a beta of 1.42, suggesting that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SEI Investments has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

State Street beats SEI Investments on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.