CME vs. ICE, MCO, IBKR, NDAQ, MSCI, MKTX, AROW, PHH, TW, and LPLA
Should you be buying CME Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CME Group include Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Moody's (MCO), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), Nasdaq (NDAQ), MSCI (MSCI), MarketAxess (MKTX), Arrow Financial (AROW), PHH (PHH), Tradeweb Markets (TW), and LPL Financial (LPLA). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
CME Group vs.
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) and CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, risk and institutional ownership.
Intercontinental Exchange currently has a consensus target price of $182.47, suggesting a potential upside of 8.55%. CME Group has a consensus target price of $256.80, suggesting a potential downside of 7.32%. Given Intercontinental Exchange's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Intercontinental Exchange is more favorable than CME Group.
CME Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Intercontinental Exchange. CME Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Intercontinental Exchange, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CME Group has a net margin of 57.52% compared to Intercontinental Exchange's net margin of 23.42%. CME Group's return on equity of 13.62% beat Intercontinental Exchange's return on equity.
89.3% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of CME Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of CME Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Intercontinental Exchange received 175 more outperform votes than CME Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.09% of users gave Intercontinental Exchange an outperform vote while only 58.59% of users gave CME Group an outperform vote.
Intercontinental Exchange pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. CME Group pays an annual dividend of $5.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Intercontinental Exchange pays out 40.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CME Group pays out 50.3% 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.
In the previous week, CME Group had 23 more articles in the media than Intercontinental Exchange. MarketBeat recorded 54 mentions for CME Group and 31 mentions for Intercontinental Exchange. Intercontinental Exchange's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat CME Group's score of 0.85 indicating that Intercontinental Exchange is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Intercontinental Exchange has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CME Group has a beta of 0.43, meaning that its stock price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Intercontinental Exchange beats CME Group on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CME) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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