MSCI vs. ICE, CME, MCO, IBKR, NDAQ, MKTX, AROW, UBER, FI, 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), Uber Technologies (UBER), Fiserv (FI), and MercadoLibre (MELI).
MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) and Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations and risk.
MSCI presently has a consensus price target of $570.53, suggesting a potential upside of 15.22%. Intercontinental Exchange has a consensus price target of $148.29, suggesting a potential upside of 10.74%. Given MSCI's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe MSCI is more favorable than Intercontinental Exchange.
In the previous week, Intercontinental Exchange had 2 more articles in the media than MSCI. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Intercontinental Exchange and 12 mentions for MSCI. MSCI's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Intercontinental Exchange's score of 0.64 indicating that MSCI is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Intercontinental Exchange received 292 more outperform votes than MSCI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.63% of users gave Intercontinental Exchange an outperform vote while only 65.67% of users gave MSCI an outperform vote.
90.0% of MSCI shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.3% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of MSCI shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
MSCI has a net margin of 44.55% compared to Intercontinental Exchange's net margin of 24.24%. Intercontinental Exchange's return on equity of 12.76% 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.
MSCI pays an annual dividend of $6.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Intercontinental Exchange pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. 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. Intercontinental Exchange is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
MSCI has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intercontinental Exchange has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Intercontinental Exchange beats MSCI on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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