NDAQ vs. SNEX, YIN, ICE, CME, MCO, IBKR, MSCI, MKTX, AROW, and TROW
Should you be buying Nasdaq stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nasdaq include StoneX Group (SNEX), Yintech Investment (YIN), Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), CME Group (CME), Moody's (MCO), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), MSCI (MSCI), MarketAxess (MKTX), Arrow Financial (AROW), and T. Rowe Price Group (TROW).
StoneX Group (NASDAQ:SNEX) and Nasdaq (NASDAQ:NDAQ) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and community ranking.
In the previous week, Nasdaq had 7 more articles in the media than StoneX Group. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Nasdaq and 3 mentions for StoneX Group. Nasdaq's average media sentiment score of 1.70 beat StoneX Group's score of 0.94 indicating that StoneX Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Nasdaq has a consensus price target of $65.92, indicating a potential upside of 11.68%. Given StoneX Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Nasdaq is more favorable than StoneX Group.
Nasdaq received 828 more outperform votes than StoneX Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.54% of users gave Nasdaq an outperform vote while only 41.67% of users gave StoneX Group an outperform vote.
Nasdaq has lower revenue, but higher earnings than StoneX Group. StoneX Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nasdaq, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Nasdaq has a net margin of 15.98% compared to Nasdaq's net margin of 0.33%. Nasdaq's return on equity of 17.29% beat StoneX Group's return on equity.
StoneX Group has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nasdaq has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
75.9% of StoneX Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.5% of Nasdaq shares are held by institutional investors. 16.2% of StoneX Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Nasdaq shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Nasdaq beats StoneX Group on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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