MORN vs. NDAQ, MCO, MSCI, NYT, SSTK, SCHL, DJCO, VALU, MKTW, and TRI
Should you be buying Morningstar stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Morningstar include Nasdaq (NDAQ), Moody's (MCO), MSCI (MSCI), New York Times (NYT), Shutterstock (SSTK), Scholastic (SCHL), Daily Journal Corp. (S.C.) (DJCO), Value Line (VALU), MarketWise (MKTW), and Thomson Reuters (TRI).
Morningstar vs. Its Competitors
Morningstar (NASDAQ:MORN) and Nasdaq (NASDAQ:NDAQ) are related large-cap companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Morningstar currently has a consensus target price of $361.67, indicating a potential upside of 16.26%. Nasdaq has a consensus target price of $88.06, indicating a potential downside of 2.08%. Given Morningstar's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Morningstar is more favorable than Nasdaq.
Morningstar has a net margin of 16.60% compared to Nasdaq's net margin of 16.36%. Morningstar's return on equity of 23.23% beat Nasdaq's return on equity.
Morningstar pays an annual dividend of $1.82 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Nasdaq pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Morningstar pays out 20.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Nasdaq pays out 49.1% 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. Morningstar has increased its dividend for 16 consecutive years and Nasdaq has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Nasdaq had 1 more articles in the media than Morningstar. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Nasdaq and 29 mentions for Morningstar. Nasdaq's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Morningstar's score of 0.46 indicating that Nasdaq is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nasdaq has higher revenue and earnings than Morningstar. Morningstar is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nasdaq, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
57.0% of Morningstar shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.5% of Nasdaq shares are held by institutional investors. 36.2% of Morningstar shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Nasdaq shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Morningstar has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nasdaq has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Nasdaq beats Morningstar on 10 of the 18 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 MORN and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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This page (NASDAQ:MORN) was last updated on 7/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
