NDAQ vs. SNEX, ICE, MCO, CME, IBKR, MSCI, MKTX, AROW, TW, and TROW
Should you be buying Nasdaq stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nasdaq include StoneX Group (SNEX), Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Moody's (MCO), CME Group (CME), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), MSCI (MSCI), MarketAxess (MKTX), Arrow Financial (AROW), Tradeweb Markets (TW), and T. Rowe Price Group (TROW).
StoneX Group (NASDAQ:SNEX) and Nasdaq (NASDAQ:NDAQ) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
In the previous week, Nasdaq had 28 more articles in the media than StoneX Group. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Nasdaq and 2 mentions for StoneX Group. Nasdaq's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat StoneX Group's score of 0.94 indicating that StoneX Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Nasdaq received 832 more outperform votes than StoneX Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.64% of users gave Nasdaq an outperform vote while only 41.67% of users gave StoneX Group an outperform vote.
75.9% of StoneX Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.5% of Nasdaq shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.2% of StoneX Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Nasdaq shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
StoneX Group has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nasdaq has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Nasdaq has a consensus target price of $68.25, indicating a potential upside of 1.93%. Given StoneX Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Nasdaq is more favorable than StoneX Group.
Nasdaq has lower revenue, but higher earnings than StoneX Group. StoneX Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nasdaq, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Nasdaq has a net margin of 15.98% compared to Nasdaq's net margin of 0.33%. Nasdaq's return on equity of 17.29% beat StoneX Group's return on equity.
Summary
Nasdaq beats StoneX Group on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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