MKTX vs. SF, SEIC, JEF, FRHC, VIRT, PIPR, AMTD, HOOD, NMR, and RJF
Should you be buying MarketAxess stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MarketAxess include Stifel Financial (SF), SEI Investments (SEIC), Jefferies Financial Group (JEF), Freedom (FRHC), Virtu Financial (VIRT), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), TD Ameritrade (AMTD), Robinhood Markets (HOOD), Nomura (NMR), and Raymond James (RJF). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Stifel Financial (NYSE:SF) and MarketAxess (NASDAQ:MKTX) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability and community ranking.
Stifel Financial has higher revenue and earnings than MarketAxess. Stifel Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MarketAxess, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Stifel Financial presently has a consensus target price of $84.50, suggesting a potential upside of 1.89%. MarketAxess has a consensus target price of $249.73, suggesting a potential upside of 16.31%. Given Stifel Financial's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe MarketAxess is more favorable than Stifel Financial.
Stifel Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. MarketAxess pays an annual dividend of $2.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Stifel Financial pays out 38.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MarketAxess pays out 43.5% 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. Stifel Financial has raised its dividend for 8 consecutive years and MarketAxess has raised its dividend for 16 consecutive years. Stifel Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
MarketAxess has a net margin of 33.83% compared to MarketAxess' net margin of 11.34%. Stifel Financial's return on equity of 20.82% beat MarketAxess' return on equity.
MarketAxess received 65 more outperform votes than Stifel Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.56% of users gave Stifel Financial an outperform vote while only 46.59% of users gave MarketAxess an outperform vote.
Stifel Financial has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MarketAxess has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
82.0% of Stifel Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.0% of MarketAxess shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of Stifel Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of MarketAxess shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, MarketAxess had 3 more articles in the media than Stifel Financial. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for MarketAxess and 5 mentions for Stifel Financial. Stifel Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat MarketAxess' score of 0.98 indicating that MarketAxess is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
MarketAxess beats Stifel Financial on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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