IBKR vs. ICE, CME, MCO, MSCI, NDAQ, MKTX, AROW, PHH, MS, and GS
Should you be buying Interactive Brokers Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Interactive Brokers Group include Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), CME Group (CME), Moody's (MCO), MSCI (MSCI), Nasdaq (NDAQ), MarketAxess (MKTX), Arrow Financial (AROW), PHH (PHH), Morgan Stanley (MS), and The Goldman Sachs Group (GS). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Interactive Brokers Group vs.
Interactive Brokers Group (NASDAQ:IBKR) and Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends and profitability.
Intercontinental Exchange has a net margin of 23.42% compared to Interactive Brokers Group's net margin of 9.25%. Intercontinental Exchange's return on equity of 12.95% beat Interactive Brokers Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Intercontinental Exchange had 17 more articles in the media than Interactive Brokers Group. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for Intercontinental Exchange and 26 mentions for Interactive Brokers Group. Interactive Brokers Group's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Intercontinental Exchange's score of 1.23 indicating that Interactive Brokers Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Interactive Brokers Group has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intercontinental Exchange has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Interactive Brokers Group currently has a consensus price target of $204.13, indicating a potential upside of 17.35%. Intercontinental Exchange has a consensus price target of $178.80, indicating a potential upside of 1.77%. Given Interactive Brokers Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Interactive Brokers Group is more favorable than Intercontinental Exchange.
Intercontinental Exchange has higher revenue and earnings than Interactive Brokers Group. Interactive Brokers 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.
23.8% of Interactive Brokers Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.3% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Interactive Brokers Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Interactive Brokers Group pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Intercontinental Exchange pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Interactive Brokers Group pays out 14.2% 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.
Intercontinental Exchange received 537 more outperform votes than Interactive Brokers Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.06% of users gave Intercontinental Exchange an outperform vote while only 56.91% of users gave Interactive Brokers Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Intercontinental Exchange beats Interactive Brokers Group on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:IBKR) was last updated on 3/27/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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