MCO vs. ICE, CME, IBKR, MSCI, NDAQ, MKTX, AROW, SPGI, EFX, and TRU
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), MSCI (MSCI), Nasdaq (NDAQ), MarketAxess (MKTX), Arrow Financial (AROW), S&P Global (SPGI), Equifax (EFX), and TransUnion (TRU).
Moody's (NYSE:MCO) and Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, dividends, community ranking and profitability.
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.
Moody's has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intercontinental Exchange has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Moody's has a net margin of 27.01% compared to Intercontinental Exchange's net margin of 24.24%. Moody's' return on equity of 54.50% beat Intercontinental Exchange's return on equity.
Moody's presently has a consensus target price of $400.50, suggesting a potential upside of 0.88%. Intercontinental Exchange has a consensus target price of $148.29, suggesting a potential upside of 10.74%. Given Intercontinental Exchange's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Intercontinental Exchange is more favorable than Moody's.
In the previous week, Intercontinental Exchange had 2 more articles in the media than Moody's. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Intercontinental Exchange and 12 mentions for Moody's. Moody's' average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Intercontinental Exchange's score of 0.64 indicating that Moody's is being referred to more favorably in the media.
92.1% of Moody's shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.3% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Moody's 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 hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Moody's pays an annual dividend of $3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Intercontinental Exchange pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Moody's pays out 37.1% 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 received 294 more outperform votes than Moody's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.63% of users gave Intercontinental Exchange an outperform vote while only 59.57% of users gave Moody's an outperform vote.
Summary
Intercontinental Exchange beats Moody's on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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