NDAQ vs. SNEX, YIN, ICE, MCO, CME, IBKR, MSCI, MKTX, AROW, and TROW
Should you be buying Nasdaq stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nasdaq include StoneX Group (SNEX), Yintech Investment (YIN), Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Moody's (MCO), CME Group (CME), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), MSCI (MSCI), MarketAxess (MKTX), Arrow Financial (AROW), and T. Rowe Price Group (TROW).
StoneX Group (NASDAQ:SNEX) and Nasdaq (NASDAQ:NDAQ) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends and earnings.
Nasdaq has a net margin of 15.98% compared to Nasdaq's net margin of 0.33%. Nasdaq's return on equity of 17.29% beat StoneX Group's return on equity.
75.9% of StoneX Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.5% of Nasdaq shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.2% of StoneX Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Nasdaq shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
StoneX Group has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nasdaq has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Nasdaq has lower revenue, but higher earnings than StoneX Group. StoneX Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nasdaq, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Nasdaq had 3 more articles in the media than StoneX Group. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Nasdaq and 7 mentions for StoneX Group. StoneX Group's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Nasdaq's score of 0.96 indicating that Nasdaq is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nasdaq received 828 more outperform votes than StoneX Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.54% of users gave Nasdaq an outperform vote while only 41.67% of users gave StoneX Group an outperform vote.
Nasdaq has a consensus price target of $65.92, indicating a potential upside of 12.15%. Given StoneX Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Nasdaq is more favorable than StoneX Group.
Summary
Nasdaq beats StoneX Group on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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