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CME Group (CME) Competitors

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CME vs. CBOE, COIN, MKTX, NDAQ, NVDA, ICE, IBKR, MCO, MSCI, and PHH

Should you be buying CME Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CME Group include Cboe Global Markets (CBOE), Coinbase Global (COIN), MarketAxess (MKTX), Nasdaq (NDAQ), NVIDIA (NVDA), Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), Moody's (MCO), MSCI (MSCI), and PHH (PHH).

CME Group vs. Its Competitors

CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) and Cboe Global Markets (BATS:CBOE) are related large-cap companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and profitability.

CME Group pays an annual dividend of $5.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Cboe Global Markets pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. CME Group pays out 50.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cboe Global Markets pays out 99.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Cboe Global Markets has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. CME Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

CME Group has higher revenue and earnings than Cboe Global Markets. CME Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cboe Global Markets, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
CME Group$6.13B16.03$3.53B$9.9427.44
Cboe Global Markets$3.49B7.01$529M$1.94119.07

CME Group presently has a consensus price target of $259.87, suggesting a potential downside of 4.72%. Cboe Global Markets has a consensus price target of $212.89, suggesting a potential downside of 7.84%. Given CME Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe CME Group is more favorable than Cboe Global Markets.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
CME Group
3 Sell rating(s)
8 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.13
Cboe Global Markets
1 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33

In the previous week, CME Group had 43 more articles in the media than Cboe Global Markets. MarketBeat recorded 44 mentions for CME Group and 1 mentions for Cboe Global Markets. CME Group's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Cboe Global Markets' score of 0.76 indicating that CME Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
CME Group
31 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Cboe Global Markets
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

CME Group has a beta of 0.44, suggesting that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cboe Global Markets has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.

87.8% of CME Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.7% of Cboe Global Markets shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of CME Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Cboe Global Markets shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

CME Group has a net margin of 57.71% compared to Cboe Global Markets' net margin of 5.77%. Cboe Global Markets' return on equity of 20.05% beat CME Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
CME Group57.71% 14.03% 2.76%
Cboe Global Markets 5.77%20.05%9.29%

Summary

CME Group beats Cboe Global Markets on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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CME vs. The Competition

MetricCME GroupSecurities Exchanges IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$98.94B$79.61B$12.07B$9.01B
Dividend Yield1.82%1.17%5.58%4.11%
P/E Ratio27.6228.6420.0820.07
Price / Sales16.039.2525.70109.13
Price / Cash24.3021.8521.3456.90
Price / Book3.706.202.285.70
Net Income$3.53B$2.04B$1.00B$248.47M
7 Day Performance-0.03%1.39%2.33%2.92%
1 Month Performance-3.39%2.82%4.39%5.77%
1 Year Performance39.11%33.01%541.13%21.39%

CME Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CME
CME Group
4.2392 of 5 stars
$272.75
-1.1%
$259.87
-4.7%
+40.0%$98.94B$6.13B27.623,760Trending News
Analyst Forecast
CBOE
Cboe Global Markets
0.804 of 5 stars
$230.30
+19.1%
$212.89
-7.6%
+35.3%$20.41B$3.49B117.921,540High Trading Volume
COIN
Coinbase Global
3.1695 of 5 stars
$350.49
-0.8%
$291.06
-17.0%
+55.8%$88.98B$6.56B65.634,510Trending News
MKTX
MarketAxess
4.5229 of 5 stars
$223.34
+1.7%
$241.78
+8.3%
+13.1%$8.38B$817.10M38.84740Positive News
NDAQ
Nasdaq
4.7999 of 5 stars
$89.42
+0.4%
$87.19
-2.5%
+49.3%$51.34B$7.40B40.656,380Positive News
Analyst Forecast
NVDA
NVIDIA
4.8933 of 5 stars
$157.99
+0.2%
$175.78
+11.3%
+28.2%$3.85T$130.50B50.9636,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
ICE
Intercontinental Exchange
4.199 of 5 stars
$183.64
+1.0%
$188.46
+2.6%
+28.9%$105.34B$11.76B38.0212,920Trending News
Insider Trade
IBKR
Interactive Brokers Group
3.5739 of 5 stars
$55.41
+2.7%
$53.38
-3.7%
+82.4%$93.67B$5.19B29.992,820Options Volume
MCO
Moody's
4.4453 of 5 stars
$502.16
+2.9%
$519.40
+3.4%
+16.8%$90.34B$7.09B43.3614,400Analyst Forecast
MSCI
MSCI
4.9023 of 5 stars
$575.80
-0.1%
$645.36
+12.1%
+18.7%$44.55B$2.86B39.574,760
PHH
PHH
N/A$34.99
+3.2%
N/AN/A$916.74M$2.38M0.0033

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This page (NASDAQ:CME) was last updated on 7/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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