ICE vs. CME, NDAQ, TROW, TW, LPLA, BNS, MCO, BMO, BX, and SMFG
Should you be buying Intercontinental Exchange stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Intercontinental Exchange include CME Group (CME), Nasdaq (NDAQ), T. Rowe Price Group (TROW), Tradeweb Markets (TW), LPL Financial (LPLA), Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS), Moody's (MCO), Bank of Montreal (BMO), Blackstone (BX), and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Intercontinental Exchange vs.
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) and CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
Intercontinental Exchange pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. CME Group pays an annual dividend of $4.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Intercontinental Exchange pays out 65.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CME Group pays out 55.9% 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. CME Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
87.3% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.1% of CME Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of CME Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
CME Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Intercontinental Exchange. CME Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Intercontinental Exchange, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Intercontinental Exchange has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CME Group has a beta of 0.41, indicating that its stock price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Intercontinental Exchange received 145 more outperform votes than CME Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.88% of users gave Intercontinental Exchange an outperform vote while only 61.26% of users gave CME Group an outperform vote.
CME Group has a net margin of 55.99% compared to Intercontinental Exchange's net margin of 14.97%. Intercontinental Exchange's return on equity of 12.98% beat CME Group's return on equity.
Intercontinental Exchange presently has a consensus price target of $130.70, indicating a potential upside of 23.38%. CME Group has a consensus price target of $212.73, indicating a potential upside of 19.01%. Given Intercontinental Exchange's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Intercontinental Exchange is more favorable than CME Group.
In the previous week, Intercontinental Exchange had 4 more articles in the media than CME Group. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Intercontinental Exchange and 7 mentions for CME Group. CME Group's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Intercontinental Exchange's score of 0.42 indicating that CME Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Intercontinental Exchange beats CME Group on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding ICE 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 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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