LSEG vs. AQX, HSBA, BNC, LLOY, OMU, BARC, NWG, STAN, PRU, and LGEN
Should you be buying London Stock Exchange Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of London Stock Exchange Group include Aquis Exchange (AQX), HSBC (HSBA), Banco Santander (BNC), Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), Old Mutual (OMU), Barclays (BARC), NatWest Group (NWG), Standard Chartered (STAN), Prudential (PRU), and Legal & General Group (LGEN). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
London Stock Exchange Group vs.
Aquis Exchange (LON:AQX) and London Stock Exchange Group (LON:LSEG) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
Aquis Exchange currently has a consensus target price of GBX 960, suggesting a potential upside of 35.21%. London Stock Exchange Group has a consensus target price of GBX 7,871.67, suggesting a potential downside of 30.71%. Given Aquis Exchange's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Aquis Exchange is more favorable than London Stock Exchange Group.
Aquis Exchange has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, London Stock Exchange Group has a beta of 0.41, meaning that its stock price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Aquis Exchange has a net margin of 20.80% compared to London Stock Exchange Group's net margin of 7.93%. Aquis Exchange's return on equity of 17.27% beat London Stock Exchange Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Aquis Exchange had 1 more articles in the media than London Stock Exchange Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Aquis Exchange and 4 mentions for London Stock Exchange Group. Aquis Exchange's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat London Stock Exchange Group's score of 0.46 indicating that Aquis Exchange is being referred to more favorably in the media.
London Stock Exchange Group has higher revenue and earnings than Aquis Exchange. Aquis Exchange is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than London Stock Exchange Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
36.7% of Aquis Exchange shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.0% of London Stock Exchange Group shares are held by institutional investors. 47.8% of Aquis Exchange shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.6% of London Stock Exchange Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
London Stock Exchange Group received 22 more outperform votes than Aquis Exchange when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 88.00% of users gave London Stock Exchange Group an outperform vote while only 73.33% of users gave Aquis Exchange an outperform vote.
Summary
Aquis Exchange beats London Stock Exchange Group on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:LSEG) was last updated on 4/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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