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MCO vs. ICE, CME, IBKR, NDAQ, MSCI, MKTX, AROW, PHH, SPGI, and EFX

Should you be buying Moody's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Moody's include Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), CME Group (CME), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), Nasdaq (NDAQ), MSCI (MSCI), MarketAxess (MKTX), Arrow Financial (AROW), PHH (PHH), S&P Global (SPGI), and Equifax (EFX).

Moody's vs.

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) and Moody's (NYSE:MCO) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking and analyst recommendations.

In the previous week, Moody's had 70 more articles in the media than Intercontinental Exchange. MarketBeat recorded 110 mentions for Moody's and 40 mentions for Intercontinental Exchange. Intercontinental Exchange's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat Moody's' score of 0.61 indicating that Intercontinental Exchange is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Intercontinental Exchange
36 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Moody's
41 Very Positive mention(s)
25 Positive mention(s)
18 Neutral mention(s)
20 Negative mention(s)
6 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

89.3% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.1% of Moody's shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Moody's shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Intercontinental Exchange presently has a consensus price target of $188.46, indicating a potential upside of 8.22%. Moody's has a consensus price target of $515.87, indicating a potential upside of 9.16%. Given Moody's' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Moody's is more favorable than Intercontinental Exchange.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Intercontinental Exchange
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
11 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.85
Moody's
1 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.53

Intercontinental Exchange has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Moody's has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Intercontinental Exchange has higher revenue and earnings than Moody's. Intercontinental Exchange is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Moody's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Intercontinental Exchange$12.19B8.20$2.75B$4.8336.06
Moody's$7.23B11.77$2.06B$11.5840.81

Moody's has a net margin of 29.03% compared to Intercontinental Exchange's net margin of 23.42%. Moody's' return on equity of 58.94% beat Intercontinental Exchange's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Intercontinental Exchange23.42% 12.95% 2.57%
Moody's 29.03%58.94%14.87%

Intercontinental Exchange pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Moody's pays an annual dividend of $3.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Intercontinental Exchange pays out 39.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Moody's pays out 32.5% 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 increased its dividend for 9 consecutive years and Moody's has increased its dividend for 16 consecutive years.

Intercontinental Exchange received 297 more outperform votes than Moody's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.07% of users gave Intercontinental Exchange an outperform vote while only 58.97% of users gave Moody's an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Intercontinental ExchangeOutperform Votes
849
72.07%
Underperform Votes
329
27.93%
Moody'sOutperform Votes
552
58.97%
Underperform Votes
384
41.03%

Summary

Moody's beats Intercontinental Exchange on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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MCO vs. The Competition

MetricMoody'sConsumer credit reporting agencies, mercantile reporting agencies, IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$85.02B$42.40B$11.48B$19.31B
Dividend Yield0.77%0.96%5.45%3.83%
P/E Ratio41.9339.3422.4534.55
Price / Sales11.775.1627.5234.91
Price / Cash34.2117.9917.6217.51
Price / Book22.826.202.774.68
Net Income$2.06B$984.76M$1.04B$1.02B
7 Day Performance-3.24%-3.14%-0.29%-1.96%
1 Month Performance9.76%4.16%6.03%7.26%
1 Year Performance13.82%10.69%536.56%3.95%

Moody's Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MCO
Moody's
4.3247 of 5 stars
$471.60
-0.2%
$515.87
+9.4%
+14.5%$84.84B$7.23B41.8514,400
ICE
Intercontinental Exchange
4.038 of 5 stars
$176.61
+0.2%
$185.93
+5.3%
+27.2%$101.31B$12.19B36.958,910Positive News
CME
CME Group
3.8769 of 5 stars
$277.94
+0.6%
$256.80
-7.6%
+33.9%$100.16B$6.28B28.743,460Insider Trade
IBKR
Interactive Brokers Group
2.8914 of 5 stars
$208.00
-0.5%
$213.50
+2.6%
+62.1%$87.90B$9.43B29.462,820
NDAQ
Nasdaq
4.3922 of 5 stars
$81.96
+0.1%
$86.50
+5.5%
+29.1%$47.06B$7.82B42.696,380Trending News
Dividend Increase
Analyst Revision
MSCI
MSCI
4.9279 of 5 stars
$572.45
+0.0%
$645.36
+12.7%
+10.7%$44.29B$2.92B40.714,760Trending News
MKTX
MarketAxess
4.6723 of 5 stars
$219.42
+1.6%
$241.78
+10.2%
+1.0%$8.23B$815.36M30.18740News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
AROW
Arrow Financial
4.1006 of 5 stars
$26.63
+0.7%
$30.00
+12.7%
+6.3%$444.06M$144.69M15.05510Analyst Upgrade
PHH
PHH
N/A$14.18
-4.3%
N/AN/A$371.52M$2.38M0.0033News Coverage
SPGI
S&P Global
4.7805 of 5 stars
$523.89
+0.3%
$592.71
+13.1%
+15.9%$160.68B$14.49B42.4240,000Trending News
Analyst Revision
EFX
Equifax
4.7553 of 5 stars
$280.53
+0.7%
$292.00
+4.1%
+8.5%$34.84B$5.73B58.0814,000Trending News
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This page (NYSE:MCO) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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