NDAQ vs. ICE, CME, MCO, IBKR, MSCI, MKTX, PHH, AROW, TW, and LPLA
Should you be buying Nasdaq stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nasdaq include Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), CME Group (CME), Moody's (MCO), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), MSCI (MSCI), MarketAxess (MKTX), PHH (PHH), Arrow Financial (AROW), Tradeweb Markets (TW), and LPL Financial (LPLA). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Nasdaq vs. Its Competitors
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) and Nasdaq (NASDAQ:NDAQ) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Intercontinental Exchange has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nasdaq has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Intercontinental Exchange has a net margin of 23.42% compared to Nasdaq's net margin of 15.10%. Nasdaq's return on equity of 14.82% beat Intercontinental Exchange's return on equity.
Intercontinental Exchange currently has a consensus target price of $188.46, indicating a potential upside of 6.28%. Nasdaq has a consensus target price of $86.50, indicating a potential downside of 0.80%. Given Intercontinental Exchange's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Intercontinental Exchange is more favorable than Nasdaq.
Intercontinental Exchange has higher revenue and earnings than Nasdaq. Intercontinental Exchange is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nasdaq, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
89.3% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.5% of Nasdaq shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Nasdaq shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Intercontinental Exchange had 15 more articles in the media than Nasdaq. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Intercontinental Exchange and 17 mentions for Nasdaq. Nasdaq's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Intercontinental Exchange's score of 0.95 indicating that Nasdaq is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Intercontinental Exchange pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Nasdaq pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Intercontinental Exchange pays out 39.8% 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. Intercontinental Exchange has raised its dividend for 9 consecutive years and Nasdaq has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Nasdaq is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Nasdaq received 30 more outperform votes than Intercontinental Exchange when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.07% of users gave Intercontinental Exchange an outperform vote while only 69.43% of users gave Nasdaq an outperform vote.
Summary
Intercontinental Exchange beats Nasdaq on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NASDAQ:NDAQ) was last updated on 6/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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