IBKR vs. ICE, CME, MCO, NDAQ, MSCI, MKTX, AROW, PHH, MS, and GS
Should you be buying Interactive Brokers Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Interactive Brokers Group include Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), CME Group (CME), Moody's (MCO), Nasdaq (NDAQ), MSCI (MSCI), MarketAxess (MKTX), Arrow Financial (AROW), PHH (PHH), Morgan Stanley (MS), and The Goldman Sachs Group (GS). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Interactive Brokers Group vs.
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) and Interactive Brokers Group (NASDAQ:IBKR) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and profitability.
Intercontinental Exchange pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Interactive Brokers Group pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Intercontinental Exchange pays out 39.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Interactive Brokers Group pays out 17.3% 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. Intercontinental Exchange has raised its dividend for 9 consecutive years and Interactive Brokers Group has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Intercontinental Exchange is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Intercontinental Exchange has higher revenue and earnings than Interactive Brokers Group. Interactive Brokers 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 has a net margin of 23.42% compared to Interactive Brokers Group's net margin of 9.25%. Intercontinental Exchange's return on equity of 12.95% beat Interactive Brokers Group's return on equity.
89.3% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.8% of Interactive Brokers Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Interactive Brokers Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Intercontinental Exchange currently has a consensus target price of $188.46, suggesting a potential upside of 7.44%. Interactive Brokers Group has a consensus target price of $213.50, suggesting a potential upside of 3.32%. Given Intercontinental Exchange's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Intercontinental Exchange is more favorable than Interactive Brokers Group.
Intercontinental Exchange received 534 more outperform votes than Interactive Brokers Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.07% of users gave Intercontinental Exchange an outperform vote while only 56.96% of users gave Interactive Brokers Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Intercontinental Exchange had 33 more articles in the media than Interactive Brokers Group. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for Intercontinental Exchange and 6 mentions for Interactive Brokers Group. Intercontinental Exchange's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Interactive Brokers Group's score of 0.62 indicating that Intercontinental Exchange is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Intercontinental Exchange has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Interactive Brokers Group has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Intercontinental Exchange beats Interactive Brokers Group on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:IBKR) was last updated on 5/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
