SEI Investments Company · SEIC · FY2025 Q2 · Calendar Q3 2025
SEI pairs record sales events with Stratos investment
The quarter supports a constructive but conditional view: strong sales activity, outsourcing demand, and the Stratos partnership can reinforce growth, but the thesis depends on execution and eventual returns from investment spending.
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What changed
SEI moved from a prior quarter defined by record sales events, margin strength, and new product expansion to a quarter that added a strategic Stratos investment and record quarterly sales events. The emphasis shifted toward funding talent and technology, with intentional margin pressure and greater integration and execution demands.
Guidance delta
Maintained.
Key takeaways
- Management highlighted a record $30 million in quarterly net sales events, led by Investment Managers.
- The Stratos investment broadens advisory and technology capabilities, while talent and technology spending weighs on margins.
- Management cited balanced pipelines, AUM/AUA growth, and continued shareholder returns as support for the longer-term trajectory.
Management priorities
- Integrate Stratos and use its platform to expand advisory capabilities.
- Invest in talent and scalable technology to support pipeline execution.
- Advance direct indexing, SMA, asset-management upstream initiatives, and aligned M&A.
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Analyst 52W Price Targets
Latest persisted target per named analyst; persisted previous close from FN2's market snapshot as of Oct 22, 2026. Not an FN2 forecast.
Firm-level rating actions
FMP grade actions identify the grading firm, not a named analyst.
| Firm | Rating | Prior rating | Action | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piper Sandler | Overweight | Overweight | Maintain | Oct 19, 2026 |
| William Blair | Outperform | Market Perform | Upgrade | Sep 15, 2026 |
| Morgan Stanley | Overweight | Overweight | Maintain | Jul 23, 2026 |
| Keefe, Bruyette & Woods | Outperform | Outperform | Maintain | Jul 23, 2026 |
| Raymond James | Outperform | Outperform | Maintain | Jul 6, 2026 |
| Oppenheimer | Outperform | Outperform | Maintain | Jul 8, 2025 |
| Goldman Sachs | Neutral | Neutral | Maintain | Nov 23, 2022 |
| Truist Securities | Hold | Hold | Maintain | Nov 3, 2021 |
| Keefe Bruyette & Woods | Market Perform | Outperform | Downgrade | Apr 15, 2019 |
| Mizuho | Buy | Buy | Maintain | Jun 28, 2017 |
| CLSA | Buy | Outperform | Maintain | Aug 27, 2015 |
| Sterne Agee | Buy | Buy | Maintain | Sep 16, 2014 |
| Stifel Nicolaus | Buy | Buy | Maintain | May 30, 2013 |
| Stifel | Buy | Buy | Maintain | May 30, 2013 |
Named analyst price targets
Upside is calculated against the persisted previous close $108.43. FMP does not supply a rating on these named-analyst rows.
| Firm | Analyst | 52W target | Price when posted | Upside | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piper Sandler | Crispin Love | $127 | $104.94 | +17.1% | Oct 19, 2026 |
| Wells Fargo | Analyst unavailable | $129 | $103.87 | +19.0% | Oct 1, 2026 |
| UBS | Alex Kramm | $125 | $96.74 | +15.3% | Jul 23, 2026 |
| Piper Sandler | Crispin Love | $120 | $98.75 | +10.7% | Jul 23, 2026 |
| Piper Sandler | Crispin Love | $114 | $95.45 | +5.1% | Jul 13, 2026 |
| Raymond James | Patrick O'Shaughnessy | $124 | $95.06 | +14.4% | Jul 6, 2026 |
| Raymond James | Patrick O'Shaughnessy | $82 | $90.9 | -24.4% | Apr 29, 2026 |
| Piper Sandler | Analyst unavailable | $105 | $84.79 | -3.2% | Apr 23, 2026 |
| Piper Sandler | Crispin Love | $106 | $80.92 | -2.2% | Feb 20, 2026 |
| UBS | Alex Kramm | $115 | $84.13 | +6.1% | Feb 4, 2026 |
| Piper Sandler | Analyst unavailable | $109 | $86.1 | +0.5% | Jan 29, 2026 |
| Raymond James | Patrick O\'Shaughnessy | $117 | $87.26 | +7.9% | Jan 5, 2026 |
| Piper Sandler | Crispin Love | $102 | $84.35 | -5.9% | Dec 23, 2025 |
| Raymond James | Patrick O'Shaughnessy | $120 | $82.52 | +10.7% | Oct 14, 2025 |
| Morgan Stanley | Ryan Kenny | $115 | $86.62 | +6.1% | Sep 19, 2025 |
| Morgan Stanley | Ryan Kenny | $100 | $86.85 | -7.8% | Jun 26, 2025 |
| Morgan Stanley | Ryan Kenny | $84 | $84.97 | -22.5% | Jun 3, 2025 |
| Raymond James | Patrick O'Shaughnessy | $99 | $82.96 | -8.7% | Jan 30, 2025 |
| Morgan Stanley | Ryan Kenny | $75 | $75.1 | -30.8% | Oct 24, 2024 |
| Piper Sandler | Crispin Love | $77 | $74.69 | -29.0% | Oct 24, 2024 |
| Oppenheimer | Glenn Greene | $85 | $74.69 | -21.6% | Oct 24, 2024 |
| Piper Sandler | Crispin Love | $71 | $66.07 | -34.5% | Jul 25, 2024 |
| Piper Sandler | Crispin Love | $72 | $64.26 | -33.6% | Jul 10, 2024 |
| Piper Sandler | Crispin Love | $69 | $65.52 | -36.4% | Apr 25, 2024 |
| J.P. Morgan | Seth Seifman | $68 | $32.29 | -37.3% | Dec 26, 2023 |
| Piper Sandler | Crispin Love | $64 | $57 | -41.0% | Oct 3, 2023 |
| Morgan Stanley | Analyst unavailable | $53 | $62.94 | -51.1% | Dec 1, 2022 |
| Morgan Stanley | Analyst unavailable | $52 | $53.3 | -52.0% | Jul 21, 2022 |
| Morgan Stanley | Analyst unavailable | $55 | $53.56 | -49.3% | Jul 6, 2022 |
| Morgan Stanley | Analyst unavailable | $58 | $57.58 | -46.5% | Jun 2, 2022 |
| Morgan Stanley | Analyst unavailable | $62 | $59.25 | -42.8% | Apr 21, 2022 |
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Snapshot as of publicationSEI Investments Company is a publicly traded enterprise primarily focused on asset management. Leveraging its network of subsidiaries, SEI delivers a comprehensive suite of financial offerings. These encompass wealth, retirement, and investment solutions, alongside specialized asset management, asset administration, and outsourced investment processing services, in addition to general financial services and investment advisory expertise. Its extensive client roster serves a diverse array of financial entities, including private banks, independent financial advisors, investment managers, wealth management organizations, hedge fund managers, and broker-dealers.…
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Sources
- Earnings call transcript and parsed analysis · 2026-05-11T10:29:34.698584+00:00
- FN2 earnings calendar · 2026-07-26T00:37:55.686058+00:00
- Polygon adjusted daily market bars · 2026-10-22T11:00:43.002496+00:00
- Financial Modeling Prep analyst price-target consensus and quote snapshot · 2026-10-22T11:00:42.999695+00:00
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