CME vs. ICE, MCO, IBKR, MSCI, NDAQ, MKTX, AROW, TW, TROW, 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), MSCI (MSCI), Nasdaq (NDAQ), MarketAxess (MKTX), Arrow Financial (AROW), Tradeweb Markets (TW), T. Rowe Price Group (TROW), and LPL Financial (LPLA).
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) and CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability and earnings.
Intercontinental Exchange received 167 more outperform votes than CME Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.57% of users gave Intercontinental Exchange an outperform vote while only 59.53% of users gave CME Group an outperform vote.
Intercontinental Exchange pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. CME Group pays an annual dividend of $4.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Intercontinental Exchange pays out 41.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CME Group pays out 52.3% 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. CME Group has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years. CME Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, CME Group had 6 more articles in the media than Intercontinental Exchange. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for CME Group and 23 mentions for Intercontinental Exchange. Intercontinental Exchange's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat CME Group's score of 0.29 indicating that CME Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
89.3% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of CME Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Intercontinental Exchange 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 will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
Intercontinental Exchange presently has a consensus target price of $152.07, indicating a potential upside of 0.71%. CME Group has a consensus target price of $212.64, indicating a potential upside of 6.03%. Given Intercontinental Exchange's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe CME Group is more favorable than Intercontinental Exchange.
CME Group has a net margin of 56.98% compared to CME Group's net margin of 24.24%. Intercontinental Exchange's return on equity of 12.82% beat CME Group's return on equity.
Intercontinental Exchange has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CME Group has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Intercontinental Exchange and CME Group tied by winning 11 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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