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

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), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Moody's (MCO), MSCI (MSCI), and Arrow Financial (AROW).

CME Group vs. Its Competitors

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

Cboe Global Markets pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. CME Group pays an annual dividend of $5.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. 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. CME Group pays out 50.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cboe Global Markets has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. CME Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Cboe Global Markets presently has a consensus target price of $212.89, indicating a potential downside of 13.41%. CME Group has a consensus target price of $261.93, indicating a potential downside of 5.50%. Given CME Group's higher probable 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
Cboe Global Markets
1 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33
CME Group
3 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.06

In the previous week, CME Group had 58 more articles in the media than Cboe Global Markets. MarketBeat recorded 59 mentions for CME Group and 1 mentions for Cboe Global Markets. CME Group's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Cboe Global Markets' score of 0.63 indicating that CME Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Cboe Global Markets
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
CME Group
37 Very Positive mention(s)
8 Positive mention(s)
8 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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

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
Cboe Global Markets$3.49B7.46$529M$1.94126.73
CME Group$6.13B16.29$3.53B$9.9427.89

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
Cboe Global Markets5.77% 20.05% 9.29%
CME Group 57.71%14.03%2.76%

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

Summary

CME Group beats Cboe Global Markets on 11 of the 18 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$99.88B$79.15B$12.24B$9.49B
Dividend Yield1.82%1.18%5.55%4.00%
P/E Ratio27.8928.9319.0819.95
Price / Sales16.299.2326.2482.68
Price / Cash24.2321.6421.6858.45
Price / Book3.766.282.295.82
Net Income$3.53B$2.04B$998.01M$258.42M
7 Day Performance-0.23%0.41%0.79%1.94%
1 Month Performance2.14%2.21%3.81%12.02%
1 Year Performance40.52%29.14%541.45%20.80%

CME Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CME
CME Group
4.4199 of 5 stars
$277.18
+0.3%
$261.93
-5.5%
+40.0%$99.88B$6.13B27.893,760Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
CBOE
Cboe Global Markets
0.8673 of 5 stars
$236.65
+22.4%
$212.89
-10.0%
+31.7%$20.41B$3.49B123.001,540High Trading Volume
COIN
Coinbase Global
2.8316 of 5 stars
$413.63
-1.5%
$320.06
-22.6%
+54.4%$105.01B$6.56B77.463,772Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
MKTX
MarketAxess
4.5449 of 5 stars
$207.76
-0.5%
$240.67
+15.8%
-4.1%$7.79B$817.10M36.13740
NDAQ
Nasdaq
4.6244 of 5 stars
$89.24
-0.1%
$92.63
+3.8%
+39.8%$51.23B$7.40B40.569,162Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
NVDA
NVIDIA
4.5236 of 5 stars
$171.38
-0.6%
$181.22
+5.7%
+39.3%$4.18T$130.50B55.2836,000Trending News
Insider Trade
IBKR
Interactive Brokers Group
3.4799 of 5 stars
$62.00
-3.2%
$59.38
-4.2%
+107.5%$104.81B$9.60B31.882,998Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
ICE
Intercontinental Exchange
4.7101 of 5 stars
$180.82
+0.1%
$194.42
+7.5%
+21.8%$103.72B$11.76B37.4412,920Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
MCO
Moody's
4.69 of 5 stars
$500.45
+0.1%
$523.73
+4.7%
+12.5%$90.03B$7.09B43.2215,838Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
MSCI
MSCI
4.5835 of 5 stars
$578.92
+0.2%
$654.27
+13.0%
-2.6%$44.79B$2.86B39.796,132Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
AROW
Arrow Financial
4.1154 of 5 stars
$26.91
+0.6%
$30.00
+11.5%
-13.1%$448.59M$223.07M15.83510News Coverage
Dividend Increase

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This page (NASDAQ:CME) was last updated on 7/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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