AROW vs. CME, MCO, ICE, IBKR, MSCI, NDAQ, MKTX, CHCO, FCF, and NWBI
Should you be buying Arrow Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arrow Financial include CME Group (CME), Moody's (MCO), Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), MSCI (MSCI), Nasdaq (NDAQ), MarketAxess (MKTX), City (CHCO), First Commonwealth Financial (FCF), and Northwest Bancshares (NWBI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Arrow Financial vs.
CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) and Arrow Financial (NASDAQ:AROW) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, dividends, earnings, media sentiment and community ranking.
CME Group has a net margin of 57.34% compared to Arrow Financial's net margin of 15.00%. CME Group's return on equity of 13.39% beat Arrow Financial's return on equity.
CME Group has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arrow Financial has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
87.8% of CME Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.7% of Arrow Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of CME Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of Arrow Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
CME Group presently has a consensus price target of $229.27, suggesting a potential downside of 1.48%. Arrow Financial has a consensus price target of $32.00, suggesting a potential upside of 16.83%. Given Arrow Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Arrow Financial is more favorable than CME Group.
CME Group has higher revenue and earnings than Arrow Financial. Arrow Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CME Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CME Group pays an annual dividend of $4.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Arrow Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. CME Group pays out 48.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Arrow Financial pays out 57.1% 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. CME Group has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years.
CME Group received 548 more outperform votes than Arrow Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.87% of users gave CME Group an outperform vote while only 51.33% of users gave Arrow Financial an outperform vote.
In the previous week, CME Group had 25 more articles in the media than Arrow Financial. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for CME Group and 2 mentions for Arrow Financial. CME Group's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Arrow Financial's score of 0.64 indicating that CME Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
CME Group beats Arrow Financial on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:AROW) was last updated on 1/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
