ICE vs. CME, NDAQ, TROW, TW, SMFG, EQIX, SAN, KKR, BN, and BMO
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), Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), Equinix (EQIX), Banco Santander (SAN), KKR & Co. Inc. (KKR), Brookfield (BN), and Bank of Montreal (BMO). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) and Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, community ranking and dividends.
CME Group presently has a consensus price target of $217.30, indicating a potential downside of 0.73%. Intercontinental Exchange has a consensus price target of $145.83, indicating a potential upside of 8.52%. Given CME Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Intercontinental Exchange is more favorable than CME Group.
Intercontinental Exchange received 157 more outperform votes than CME Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.67% of users gave Intercontinental Exchange an outperform vote while only 60.33% of users gave CME Group an outperform vote.
CME Group has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intercontinental Exchange has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Intercontinental Exchange had 4 more articles in the media than CME Group. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Intercontinental Exchange and 14 mentions for CME Group. Intercontinental Exchange's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat CME Group's score of 0.55 indicating that CME Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CME Group has a net margin of 57.83% compared to CME Group's net margin of 23.91%. CME Group's return on equity of 12.91% beat Intercontinental Exchange's return on equity.
CME Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
CME Group pays an annual dividend of $4.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Intercontinental Exchange pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. CME Group pays out 51.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Intercontinental Exchange pays out 42.9% 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 has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years and Intercontinental Exchange has raised its dividend for 10 consecutive years. CME Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
85.7% of CME Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.9% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of CME Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are held 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.
Summary
Intercontinental Exchange beats CME Group on 14 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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