SEI Investments (SEIC) Competitors

Stifel Financial (NYSE:SF) and SEI Investments (NASDAQ:SEIC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and media sentiment.

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of SF or SEIC?

82.0% of Stifel Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.6% of SEI Investments shares are held by institutional investors. 3.5% of Stifel Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 14.3% of SEI Investments shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts rate SF or SEIC?

Stifel Financial presently has a consensus price target of $84.50, indicating a potential upside of 1.89%. SEI Investments has a consensus price target of $71.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.91%. Given Stifel Financial's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe SEI Investments is more favorable than Stifel Financial.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Stifel Financial	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50
SEI Investments	1 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Is SF or SEIC a better dividend stock?

Stifel Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. SEI Investments pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. 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.

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, SF or SEIC?

Stifel Financial has higher revenue and earnings than SEI Investments. SEI Investments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Stifel Financial, 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
Stifel Financial	$4.35B	1.96	$522.54M	$4.40	18.85
SEI Investments	$1.92B	4.68	$462.26M	$3.66	18.67

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in SF or SEIC?

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.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Stifel Financial	Outperform Votes 270 55.56%	Underperform Votes 216 44.44%
SEI Investments	Outperform Votes 379 59.40%	Underperform Votes 259 40.60%

Which has more risk and volatility, SF or SEIC?

Stifel Financial has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SEI Investments has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer SF or SEIC?

In the previous week, SEI Investments had 17 more articles in the media than Stifel Financial. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for SEI Investments and 5 mentions for Stifel Financial. SEI Investments' average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Stifel Financial's score of 0.86 indicating that Stifel Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Stifel Financial	3 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
SEI Investments	9 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is SF or SEIC more profitable?

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.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Stifel Financial	11.34%	12.40%	1.51%
SEI Investments	24.80%	22.91%	19.84%

Summary

SEI Investments beats Stifel Financial on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.