MKTX vs. AROW, PHH, ICE, CME, MCO, IBKR, NDAQ, MSCI, RJF, and NMR
Should you be buying MarketAxess stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MarketAxess include Arrow Financial (AROW), PHH (PHH), Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), CME Group (CME), Moody's (MCO), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), Nasdaq (NDAQ), MSCI (MSCI), Raymond James (RJF), and Nomura (NMR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
MarketAxess vs.
Arrow Financial (NASDAQ:AROW) and MarketAxess (NASDAQ:MKTX) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, risk, media sentiment, earnings and community ranking.
MarketAxess has a net margin of 33.56% compared to Arrow Financial's net margin of 13.32%. MarketAxess' return on equity of 20.23% beat Arrow Financial's return on equity.
Arrow Financial has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MarketAxess has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, MarketAxess had 16 more articles in the media than Arrow Financial. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for MarketAxess and 0 mentions for Arrow Financial. Arrow Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.73 beat MarketAxess' score of 0.89 indicating that Arrow Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MarketAxess has higher revenue and earnings than Arrow Financial. Arrow Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MarketAxess, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MarketAxess received 227 more outperform votes than Arrow Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 50.43% of users gave Arrow Financial an outperform vote while only 45.19% of users gave MarketAxess an outperform vote.
46.7% of Arrow Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.0% of MarketAxess shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.6% of Arrow Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of MarketAxess shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Arrow Financial presently has a consensus target price of $30.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.46%. MarketAxess has a consensus target price of $241.78, indicating a potential upside of 11.93%. Given Arrow Financial's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Arrow Financial is more favorable than MarketAxess.
Arrow Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. MarketAxess pays an annual dividend of $3.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Arrow Financial pays out 65.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MarketAxess pays out 52.9% 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. Arrow Financial has raised its dividend for 7 consecutive years and MarketAxess has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Arrow Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
MarketAxess beats Arrow Financial on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:MKTX) was last updated on 5/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff