Company Analysis

SEI Investments Company (SEIC)

Nasdaq: SEIC · Security Brokers, Dealers & Flotation Companies · Oaks, PA · filing with the SEC since 1995
Grade4.9
◀ Past 4.5● Present 5.4▶ Future 4.4

The grade of SEI Investments Company

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.9/10
◀ Past4.525% of the headline
● Present5.445% of the headline
▶ Future4.430% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

4.5/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
1.8/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

1 warning event since 2017; the latest 2024-02-01.

weight 45% of this tense · 18th percentile among 30 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

SEI Investments Company's filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, the latest 2024-02-01) (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
5.6/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+5.6% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 33% of this tense · 56th percentile among 29 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

SEI Investments Company's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.4 billion in fiscal 2016 to $2.3 billion in fiscal 2025, up 5.6% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 4% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2023; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span5.6%bottom 13% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 36% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 21% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak3.6%top 33% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
8.5/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 2.8% a year. 92% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 39 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 85th percentile among 26 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2024-12-31, SEI Investments Company's diluted share count shrank about 2.8% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 92% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 39 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-12 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 20% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 10% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

5.4/1045% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
8.5/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 26%: 26¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 16%: owes 16¢ per asset dollar.

weight 33% of this tense · 85th percentile among 29 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2024-12-31, SEI Investments Company earned about 26 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 26 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 16 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.5% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 2% of its family
  • return on equitytop 12% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 25% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 20% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
4.6/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 46% of 29 in its family; net margin 31.1%.

weight 45% of this tense · 46th percentile among 29 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

SEI Investments Company's standing among 29 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.3 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 48% by size; a net margin of 31.1% ranks in the top 19%; revenue growth of 4.9% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 9% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$2.30Bbottom 48% of its family
  • net margin31.1%top 19% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth4.9%bottom 9% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
2.5/10

What are the people in charge doing?

bottom 25% of 18 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2023.

weight 22% of this tense · 25th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

SEI Investments Company's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Hicke, Ryan (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2023-06-30, 3.4 years (bottom 42% of its family); the 17 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 3.8 years (bottom 8%); 8 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 17 people in charge now (bottom 26%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge8 in three years among 17 peoplebottom 26% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed3.8 yearsbottom 8% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record3.4 yearsbottom 42% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.4/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
5.5/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 46% of 29 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 54th percentile among 29 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

SEI Investments Company's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash from operations less capital spending is 25.5% of revenue (top 33%); a gross margin of 35.2% (bottom 42%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue25.5%top 33% of its family
  • gross margin35.2%bottom 42% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
2.7/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 27% of 29 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 27th percentile among 29 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

SEI Investments Company's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 4.9% a year over the last three filed years against 5.6% over all 10, slowing (bottom 31% of its family); the newest year grew 8.1% (bottom 23%); capital spending grew -16.7% a year (bottom 25%) (its annual reports). SEI Investments Company reported 5 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Investment Managers at $815 million (36%), Investment Advisors at $577 million (25%), Private Bank at $573 million (25%), and 2 more; 3 of 5 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-0.8 points a yearbottom 31% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth8.1%bottom 23% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-16.7%bottom 25% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
5.1/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

top 49% of 25 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 51st percentile among 25 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

SEI Investments Company's newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.3 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 4.6% above the $2.2 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 46% of its family); net income of $715 million against a prior three-year average of $506 million (bottom 44%); a net margin of 31.1% against 25.1% before (top 46%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace4.6%top 46% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+41%bottom 44% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average+6.0 pointstop 46% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton SEIC · research, not advice