MarketAxess Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:MKTX)

MarketAxess trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "MKTX."

MarketAxess announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, July 16th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, August 7th will be given a dividend of $0.51 per share on Wednesday, August 21st. This represents a $2.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.58%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, August 6th. View MarketAxess' Dividend History.

MarketAxess declared that its board has approved a stock buyback plan on Wednesday, October 25th 2017, which permits the company to buyback $100,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are generally an indication that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:MKTX) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, July, 24th. The financial services provider reported $1.27 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.30 by $0.03. The financial services provider earned $125.50 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $126.06 million. MarketAxess had a net margin of 39.89% and a return on equity of 29.85%. MarketAxess's revenue for the quarter was up 17.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $1.07 earnings per share. View MarketAxess' Earnings History.

MarketAxess is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, October 23rd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for MarketAxess.

MarketAxess will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, October 23rd at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

7 analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for MarketAxess' shares. Their forecasts range from $249.00 to $339.00. On average, they expect MarketAxess' share price to reach $300.80 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 14.8%. View Analyst Price Targets for MarketAxess.

7 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for MarketAxess in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings and 5 hold ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for MarketAxess.

Press coverage about MKTX stock has trended somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. MarketAxess earned a media sentiment score of 0.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the financial services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for MarketAxess.

MarketAxess saw a decline in short interest in the month of September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totalling 1,870,000 shares, a decline of 6.0% from the August 15th total of 1,990,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 497,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.8 days. Approximately 5.1% of the company's shares are short sold. View MarketAxess' Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to MarketAxess include Charles Schwab (SCHW), Credit Suisse Group (CS), TD Ameritrade (AMTD), Nomura (NMR), Raymond James (RJF), SEI Investments (SEIC), Jefferies Financial Group (JEF), Stifel Financial (SF), Virtu Financial (VIRT), Navient (NAVI), Futu (FHL), Waddell & Reed Financial (WDR), Piper Jaffray Companies (PJC), Associated Capital Group (AC) and Wisdom Tree Investments (WETF).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other MarketAxess investors own include AutoZone (AZO), Paypal (PYPL), Intuitive Surgical (ISRG), Starbucks (SBUX), Netflix (NFLX), NVIDIA (NVDA), Visa (V), Alphabet (GOOG), Lam Research (LRCX) and Alibaba Group (BABA).

MarketAxess' stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Stephens Investment Management Group LLC (0.60%), Peregrine Capital Management LLC (0.15%), Forte Capital LLC ADV (0.11%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.08%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.07%) and CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC (0.04%). Company insiders that own MarketAxess stock include Antonio L Delise, David G Gomach, John Steinhardt, Kevin M Mcpherson, Nicholas Themelis, Richard Leon Prager, Richard M Mcvey and Stephen P Casper. View Institutional Ownership Trends for MarketAxess.

MKTX stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC, Stephens Investment Management Group LLC, Pacer Advisors Inc., Peregrine Capital Management LLC, Decatur Capital Management Inc., Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. and First Hawaiian Bank. Company insiders that have sold MarketAxess company stock in the last year include Antonio L Delise, John Steinhardt, Kevin M Mcpherson, Nicholas Themelis, Richard M Mcvey and Stephen P Casper. View Insider Buying and Selling for MarketAxess.

MKTX stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Campbell Capital Management Inc., Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Forte Capital LLC ADV, Polianta Ltd, Wealthfront Advisers LLC and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for MarketAxess.

Shares of MKTX can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of MKTX stock can currently be purchased for approximately $352.88.

MarketAxess has a market capitalization of $13.32 billion and generates $435.57 million in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $172.85 million in net income (profit) each year or $4.57 on an earnings per share basis. MarketAxess employs 476 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About MarketAxess.

The official website for MarketAxess is http://www.marketaxess.com/.

MarketAxess' mailing address is 55 HUDSON YARDS 15TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY, 10001. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 212-813-6000 or via email at [email protected]