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MicroFinancial (MFI) Competitors

MFI vs. ICE, CME, MCO, IBKR, NDAQ, MSCI, MKTX, PHH, AROW, and VRAR

Should you be buying MicroFinancial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MicroFinancial include Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), CME Group (CME), Moody's (MCO), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), Nasdaq (NDAQ), MSCI (MSCI), MarketAxess (MKTX), PHH (PHH), Arrow Financial (AROW), and The Glimpse Group (VRAR).

MicroFinancial vs. Its Competitors

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) and MicroFinancial (NASDAQ:MFI) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability and media sentiment.

Intercontinental Exchange presently has a consensus target price of $188.46, indicating a potential upside of 5.70%. Given Intercontinental Exchange's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Intercontinental Exchange is more favorable than MicroFinancial.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Intercontinental Exchange
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
11 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.85
MicroFinancial
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Intercontinental Exchange has higher revenue and earnings than MicroFinancial.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Intercontinental Exchange$12.19B8.39$2.75B$4.8336.92
MicroFinancial$4.09M10.72$850KN/AN/A

In the previous week, Intercontinental Exchange had 23 more articles in the media than MicroFinancial. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Intercontinental Exchange and 2 mentions for MicroFinancial. Intercontinental Exchange's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat MicroFinancial's score of 0.00 indicating that Intercontinental Exchange is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Intercontinental Exchange Positive
MicroFinancial Neutral

Intercontinental Exchange has a net margin of 23.42% compared to MicroFinancial's net margin of 0.00%. Intercontinental Exchange's return on equity of 12.95% beat MicroFinancial's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Intercontinental Exchange23.42% 12.95% 2.57%
MicroFinancial N/A N/A N/A

Intercontinental Exchange received 746 more outperform votes than MicroFinancial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 74.64% of users gave MicroFinancial an outperform vote while only 72.07% of users gave Intercontinental Exchange an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Intercontinental ExchangeOutperform Votes
849
72.07%
Underperform Votes
329
27.93%
MicroFinancialOutperform Votes
103
74.64%
Underperform Votes
35
25.36%

89.3% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 41.1% of MicroFinancial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Intercontinental Exchange beats MicroFinancial on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding MFI and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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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MFI vs. The Competition

MetricMicroFinancialCustom computer programming services IndustryComputer SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$8.61M$7.69B$25.80B$8.50B
Dividend YieldN/A2.89%2.85%4.16%
P/E RatioN/A100.5044.3919.64
Price / Sales10.7213.111,695.13152.17
Price / CashN/A23.7734.7434.64
Price / BookN/A5.356.824.60
Net Income$850K$204.55M$741.34M$248.06M

MicroFinancial Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MFI
MicroFinancial
N/A$3.31
+359.7%
N/A+195.5%$8.61M$4.09M0.00N/AShort Interest ↑
Gap Down
ICE
Intercontinental Exchange
3.8306 of 5 stars
$175.52
-0.3%
$188.46
+7.4%
+31.8%$100.68B$12.19B36.728,910Insider Trade
CME
CME Group
3.9997 of 5 stars
$266.10
-0.8%
$258.20
-3.0%
+37.8%$95.89B$6.28B27.523,460Positive News
Insider Trade
MCO
Moody's
4.8185 of 5 stars
$485.16
-0.1%
$519.40
+7.1%
+14.8%$87.28B$7.23B43.0514,400
IBKR
Interactive Brokers Group
3.2018 of 5 stars
$205.05
+0.2%
$213.50
+4.1%
+66.7%$86.66B$9.43B29.042,820
NDAQ
Nasdaq
4.5787 of 5 stars
$86.07
+0.5%
$86.50
+0.5%
+44.6%$49.41B$7.82B44.836,380Positive News
Dividend Increase
MSCI
MSCI
4.8357 of 5 stars
$558.10
+0.0%
$645.36
+15.6%
+11.9%$43.18B$2.92B39.694,760Positive News
MKTX
MarketAxess
3.9535 of 5 stars
$224.44
+0.5%
$241.78
+7.7%
+13.0%$8.42B$815.36M30.87740Positive News
PHH
PHH
N/A$18.70
+1.1%
N/AN/A$489.94M$2.38M0.0033Gap Up
AROW
Arrow Financial
4.4795 of 5 stars
$26.29
+1.3%
$30.00
+14.1%
+3.1%$438.39M$144.69M14.85510Positive News
VRAR
The Glimpse Group
2.0795 of 5 stars
$1.47
-4.5%
$2.62
+78.2%
+22.7%$30.95M$8.76M-3.77200Positive News
Short Interest ↑

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This page (NASDAQ:MFI) was last updated on 6/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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