ICE vs. CBOE, CME, COIN, MKTX, NDAQ, MCO, SPGI, IBKR, MSCI, and AROW
Should you be buying Intercontinental Exchange stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Intercontinental Exchange include Cboe Global Markets (CBOE), CME Group (CME), Coinbase Global (COIN), MarketAxess (MKTX), Nasdaq (NDAQ), Moody's (MCO), S&P Global (SPGI), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), MSCI (MSCI), and Arrow Financial (AROW).
Intercontinental Exchange vs. Its Competitors
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) and Cboe Global Markets (BATS:CBOE) are related large-cap companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings, dividends and valuation.
Intercontinental Exchange has a net margin of 23.92% compared to Cboe Global Markets' net margin of 5.77%. Cboe Global Markets' return on equity of 20.05% beat Intercontinental Exchange's return on equity.
Intercontinental Exchange presently has a consensus price target of $197.10, indicating a potential upside of 24.46%. Cboe Global Markets has a consensus price target of $219.60, indicating a potential downside of 9.81%. Given Intercontinental Exchange's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Intercontinental Exchange is more favorable than Cboe Global Markets.
In the previous week, Intercontinental Exchange had 56 more articles in the media than Cboe Global Markets. MarketBeat recorded 58 mentions for Intercontinental Exchange and 2 mentions for Cboe Global Markets. Intercontinental Exchange's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Cboe Global Markets' score of 0.70 indicating that Intercontinental Exchange is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Intercontinental Exchange pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Cboe Global Markets pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Intercontinental Exchange pays out 36.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cboe Global Markets pays out 99.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Intercontinental Exchange has increased its dividend for 9 consecutive years and Cboe Global Markets has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Intercontinental Exchange is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Intercontinental Exchange has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cboe Global Markets has a beta of 0.61, indicating that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
89.3% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.7% of Cboe Global Markets shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Cboe Global Markets shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Intercontinental Exchange has higher revenue and earnings than Cboe Global Markets. Intercontinental Exchange is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cboe Global Markets, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Intercontinental Exchange beats Cboe Global Markets on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE 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 (NYSE:ICE) was last updated on 10/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
