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$216.01 +2.48 (+1.16%)
Closing price 05/16/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Arrow Financial13.32% 8.59% 0.76%
MarketAxess 33.56%20.23%14.75%

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.

Company Overall Sentiment
Arrow Financial Very Positive
MarketAxess Positive

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Arrow Financial$144.69M3.05$29.71M$1.7015.55
MarketAxess$815.36M9.94$274.18M$5.7537.57

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.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Arrow FinancialOutperform Votes
116
50.43%
Underperform Votes
114
49.57%
MarketAxessOutperform Votes
343
45.19%
Underperform Votes
416
54.81%

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.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Arrow Financial
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
MarketAxess
1 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.30

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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MKTX vs. The Competition

MetricMarketAxessSecurity brokers & dealers IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$8.10B$33.11B$11.65B$8.52B
Dividend Yield1.39%2.52%5.47%4.11%
P/E Ratio29.7115.7322.9820.05
Price / Sales9.946.0526.77119.71
Price / Cash20.5722.5317.6234.62
Price / Book5.872.932.874.60
Net Income$274.18M$1.49B$1.04B$248.70M
7 Day Performance-6.48%3.40%2.12%5.15%
1 Month Performance-4.06%16.55%8.00%14.04%
1 Year Performance0.61%33.61%538.63%6.76%

MarketAxess Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MKTX
MarketAxess
4.6519 of 5 stars
$216.01
+1.2%
$241.78
+11.9%
+0.6%$8.10B$815.36M29.71740
AROW
Arrow Financial
4.5444 of 5 stars
$26.72
+2.3%
$30.00
+12.3%
+5.9%$445.45M$144.69M15.10510Positive News
Ex-Dividend
PHH
PHH
N/A$13.38
-10.3%
N/AN/A$350.56M$2.38M0.0033News Coverage
ICE
Intercontinental Exchange
4.1436 of 5 stars
$173.14
-2.9%
$185.93
+7.4%
+27.2%$99.32B$12.19B36.228,910Trending News
CME
CME Group
4.1968 of 5 stars
$270.47
-4.9%
$256.80
-5.1%
+29.6%$97.47B$6.28B27.973,460Trending News
Analyst Revision
High Trading Volume
MCO
Moody's
4.4197 of 5 stars
$487.26
+3.5%
$515.87
+5.9%
+18.2%$87.66B$7.23B43.2314,400Trending News
IBKR
Interactive Brokers Group
2.8822 of 5 stars
$197.24
+6.3%
$207.88
+5.4%
+68.9%$83.35B$9.43B27.942,820Analyst Upgrade
NDAQ
Nasdaq
4.4803 of 5 stars
$80.75
+1.9%
$86.50
+7.1%
+30.5%$46.36B$7.82B42.066,380Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Upgrade
Analyst Revision
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
MSCI
MSCI
4.9254 of 5 stars
$568.76
+2.2%
$645.36
+13.5%
+13.0%$44.01B$2.92B40.454,760Trending News
RJF
Raymond James
4.6211 of 5 stars
$151.46
+4.2%
$153.82
+1.6%
+21.8%$31.04B$13.43B14.7819,000Trending News
Analyst Revision
NMR
Nomura
4.5587 of 5 stars
$5.81
+3.1%
N/A+1.6%$17.25B$1.66T8.2926,600

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This page (NASDAQ:MKTX) was last updated on 5/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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