SEIC vs. MKTX, SF, FUTU, FRHC, VIRT, STT, TROW, NTRS, ARCC, and BEN
Should you be buying SEI Investments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SEI Investments include MarketAxess (MKTX), Stifel Financial (SF), Futu (FUTU), Freedom (FRHC), Virtu Financial (VIRT), State Street (STT), T. Rowe Price Group (TROW), Northern Trust (NTRS), Ares Capital (ARCC), and Franklin Resources (BEN).
SEI Investments vs.
SEI Investments (NASDAQ:SEIC) and MarketAxess (NASDAQ:MKTX) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.
MarketAxess has a net margin of 34.32% compared to SEI Investments' net margin of 26.60%. SEI Investments' return on equity of 24.29% beat MarketAxess' return on equity.
SEI Investments pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. MarketAxess pays an annual dividend of $2.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. SEI Investments pays out 22.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MarketAxess pays out 40.1% 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. SEI Investments has increased its dividend for 33 consecutive years and MarketAxess has increased its dividend for 16 consecutive years. SEI Investments is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
SEI Investments currently has a consensus price target of $77.50, suggesting a potential downside of 3.02%. MarketAxess has a consensus price target of $267.50, suggesting a potential upside of 0.78%. Given MarketAxess' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe MarketAxess is more favorable than SEI Investments.
In the previous week, SEI Investments had 1 more articles in the media than MarketAxess. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for SEI Investments and 12 mentions for MarketAxess. SEI Investments' average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat MarketAxess' score of 0.71 indicating that SEI Investments is being referred to more favorably in the media.
70.6% of SEI Investments shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.0% of MarketAxess shares are held by institutional investors. 14.3% of SEI Investments shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of MarketAxess 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 received 44 more outperform votes than MarketAxess when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.98% of users gave SEI Investments an outperform vote while only 45.60% of users gave MarketAxess an outperform vote.
SEI Investments has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MarketAxess has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SEI Investments has higher revenue and earnings than MarketAxess. SEI Investments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MarketAxess, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
SEI Investments beats MarketAxess on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:SEIC) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
