MSCI vs. ICE, CME, MCO, IBKR, NDAQ, MKTX, AROW, PHH, PDD, and MELI
Should you be buying MSCI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MSCI include Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), CME Group (CME), Moody's (MCO), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), Nasdaq (NDAQ), MarketAxess (MKTX), Arrow Financial (AROW), PHH (PHH), PDD (PDD), and MercadoLibre (MELI).
MSCI vs.
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) and MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.
89.3% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.0% of MSCI shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of MSCI 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.
In the previous week, MSCI had 8 more articles in the media than Intercontinental Exchange. MarketBeat recorded 49 mentions for MSCI and 41 mentions for Intercontinental Exchange. Intercontinental Exchange's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat MSCI's score of 1.09 indicating that Intercontinental Exchange is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Intercontinental Exchange received 298 more outperform votes than MSCI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.07% of users gave Intercontinental Exchange an outperform vote while only 65.99% of users gave MSCI an outperform vote.
MSCI has a net margin of 38.83% compared to Intercontinental Exchange's net margin of 23.42%. Intercontinental Exchange's return on equity of 12.95% beat MSCI's return on equity.
Intercontinental Exchange has higher revenue and earnings than MSCI. Intercontinental Exchange is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MSCI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Intercontinental Exchange has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MSCI has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Intercontinental Exchange pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. MSCI pays an annual dividend of $7.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Intercontinental Exchange pays out 39.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MSCI pays out 49.5% 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 MSCI has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years. MSCI is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Intercontinental Exchange currently has a consensus price target of $188.46, indicating a potential upside of 8.37%. MSCI has a consensus price target of $645.36, indicating a potential upside of 14.51%. Given MSCI's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe MSCI is more favorable than Intercontinental Exchange.
Summary
MSCI beats Intercontinental Exchange on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:MSCI) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
