CME vs. IBKR, ICE, MCO, 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 Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Moody's (MCO), 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 Interactive Brokers Group (NASDAQ:IBKR) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
CME Group has higher revenue and earnings than Interactive Brokers Group. CME Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Interactive Brokers Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, CME Group had 38 more articles in the media than Interactive Brokers Group. MarketBeat recorded 54 mentions for CME Group and 16 mentions for Interactive Brokers Group. Interactive Brokers Group's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat CME Group's score of 1.17 indicating that Interactive Brokers Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CME Group presently has a consensus price target of $236.13, suggesting a potential downside of 4.91%. Interactive Brokers Group has a consensus price target of $204.13, suggesting a potential downside of 9.68%. Given CME Group's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe CME Group is more favorable than Interactive Brokers Group.
CME Group has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Interactive Brokers Group has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
CME Group received 356 more outperform votes than Interactive Brokers Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.64% of users gave CME Group an outperform vote while only 57.12% of users gave Interactive Brokers Group an outperform vote.
CME Group has a net margin of 57.52% compared to Interactive Brokers Group's net margin of 9.25%. CME Group's return on equity of 13.62% beat Interactive Brokers Group's return on equity.
87.8% of CME Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.8% of Interactive Brokers Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of CME Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Interactive Brokers Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
CME Group pays an annual dividend of $4.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Interactive Brokers Group pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. CME Group pays out 47.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Interactive Brokers Group pays out 14.2% 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 increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years. CME Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
CME Group beats Interactive Brokers Group on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CME) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
