CME vs. ICE, MCO, IBKR, NDAQ, MSCI, MKTX, AROW, PHH, TW, and LPLA
Should you be buying CME Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CME Group include Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Moody's (MCO), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), Nasdaq (NDAQ), MSCI (MSCI), MarketAxess (MKTX), Arrow Financial (AROW), PHH (PHH), Tradeweb Markets (TW), and LPL Financial (LPLA). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
CME Group vs.
CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) and Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Intercontinental Exchange had 5 more articles in the media than CME Group. MarketBeat recorded 44 mentions for Intercontinental Exchange and 39 mentions for CME Group. CME Group's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Intercontinental Exchange's score of 1.19 indicating that CME Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CME Group presently has a consensus target price of $238.93, suggesting a potential downside of 9.05%. Intercontinental Exchange has a consensus target price of $178.80, suggesting a potential upside of 1.77%. Given Intercontinental Exchange's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Intercontinental Exchange is more favorable than CME Group.
87.8% of CME Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.3% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of CME Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
CME Group pays an annual dividend of $5.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Intercontinental Exchange pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. CME Group pays out 51.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Intercontinental Exchange pays out 40.2% 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 higher earnings, but lower revenue than Intercontinental Exchange. CME Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Intercontinental Exchange, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Intercontinental Exchange received 179 more outperform votes than CME Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.06% of users gave Intercontinental Exchange an outperform vote while only 58.71% of users gave CME Group an outperform vote.
CME Group has a net margin of 57.52% compared to Intercontinental Exchange's net margin of 23.42%. CME Group's return on equity of 13.62% beat Intercontinental Exchange's return on equity.
CME Group has a beta of 0.53, suggesting that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intercontinental Exchange has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Intercontinental Exchange beats CME Group on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CME) was last updated on 3/27/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
