MSCI vs. ICE, MCO, CME, IBKR, NDAQ, MKTX, AROW, UBER, PDD, and MELI
Should you be buying MSCI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MSCI include Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Moody's (MCO), CME Group (CME), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), Nasdaq (NDAQ), MarketAxess (MKTX), Arrow Financial (AROW), Uber Technologies (UBER), PDD (PDD), and MercadoLibre (MELI).
MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) and Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, valuation, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Intercontinental Exchange received 291 more outperform votes than MSCI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.18% of users gave Intercontinental Exchange an outperform vote while only 65.68% of users gave MSCI an outperform vote.
90.0% of MSCI shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.3% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of MSCI shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are owned by company 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.
MSCI has a net margin of 43.86% compared to Intercontinental Exchange's net margin of 21.43%. Intercontinental Exchange's return on equity of 12.70% beat MSCI's return on equity.
MSCI pays an annual dividend of $6.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Intercontinental Exchange pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. MSCI pays out 43.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Intercontinental Exchange pays out 41.3% 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.
MSCI currently has a consensus target price of $584.79, suggesting a potential upside of 4.45%. Intercontinental Exchange has a consensus target price of $154.93, suggesting a potential downside of 3.46%. Given MSCI's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe MSCI is more favorable than Intercontinental Exchange.
In the previous week, MSCI had 4 more articles in the media than Intercontinental Exchange. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for MSCI and 17 mentions for Intercontinental Exchange. Intercontinental Exchange's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat MSCI's score of 0.60 indicating that Intercontinental Exchange is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MSCI has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intercontinental Exchange has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Summary
MSCI beats Intercontinental Exchange on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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