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$53.96 +0.55 (+1.03%)
Closing price 06/27/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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IBKR vs. ICE, CME, MCO, NDAQ, MSCI, MKTX, PHH, AROW, WFC, and MS

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), Nasdaq (NDAQ), MSCI (MSCI), MarketAxess (MKTX), PHH (PHH), Arrow Financial (AROW), Wells Fargo & Company (WFC), and Morgan Stanley (MS). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Interactive Brokers Group vs. Its Competitors

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) and Interactive Brokers Group (NASDAQ:IBKR) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.

Intercontinental Exchange pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Interactive Brokers Group pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Intercontinental Exchange pays out 39.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Interactive Brokers Group pays out 17.3% 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 has increased its dividend for 9 consecutive years and Interactive Brokers Group has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Intercontinental Exchange is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Intercontinental Exchange presently has a consensus target price of $188.46, indicating a potential upside of 3.70%. Interactive Brokers Group has a consensus target price of $53.38, indicating a potential downside of 1.08%. Given Intercontinental Exchange's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Intercontinental Exchange is more favorable than Interactive Brokers Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Intercontinental Exchange
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
11 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.85
Interactive Brokers Group
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75

In the previous week, Intercontinental Exchange had 17 more articles in the media than Interactive Brokers Group. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Intercontinental Exchange and 12 mentions for Interactive Brokers Group. Intercontinental Exchange's average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat Interactive Brokers Group's score of 0.57 indicating that Intercontinental Exchange is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Intercontinental Exchange
23 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Interactive Brokers Group
3 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Intercontinental Exchange has a net margin of 22.84% compared to Interactive Brokers Group's net margin of 9.53%. Intercontinental Exchange's return on equity of 13.27% beat Interactive Brokers Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Intercontinental Exchange22.84% 13.27% 2.62%
Interactive Brokers Group 9.53%4.97%0.55%

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Intercontinental Exchange$11.76B8.86$2.75B$4.8337.63
Interactive Brokers Group$5.19B17.59$755M$1.8529.17

89.3% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.8% of Interactive Brokers Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Interactive Brokers Group shares are held 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.

Intercontinental Exchange has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Interactive Brokers Group has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Intercontinental Exchange beats Interactive Brokers Group on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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IBKR vs. The Competition

MetricInteractive Brokers GroupFIN IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$91.22B$95.56B$11.94B$8.93B
Dividend Yield0.59%1.98%5.62%4.14%
P/E Ratio29.2117.7319.7419.64
Price / Sales17.595.0525.51105.07
Price / Cash105.8121.9021.1156.84
Price / Book5.493.482.195.43
Net Income$755M$6.49B$1.01B$249.20M
7 Day Performance5.10%5.50%1.77%3.99%
1 Month Performance2.39%6.94%2.58%5.31%
1 Year Performance76.05%44.15%535.80%17.09%

Interactive Brokers Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
IBKR
Interactive Brokers Group
3.3673 of 5 stars
$53.96
+1.0%
$53.38
-1.1%
+75.5%$91.22B$5.19B29.212,998News Coverage
ICE
Intercontinental Exchange
4.1513 of 5 stars
$179.83
+0.8%
$188.46
+4.8%
+32.2%$103.16B$11.76B37.2312,920Positive News
CME
CME Group
4.0883 of 5 stars
$272.62
-0.5%
$258.20
-5.3%
+40.5%$98.24B$6.13B27.433,760Positive News
MCO
Moody's
4.3016 of 5 stars
$476.28
+1.3%
$519.40
+9.1%
+16.5%$85.68B$7.09B41.1315,838Trending News
NDAQ
Nasdaq
4.7209 of 5 stars
$86.79
+0.8%
$87.19
+0.5%
+48.0%$49.83B$7.40B39.459,162News Coverage
Positive News
MSCI
MSCI
4.8382 of 5 stars
$555.46
+2.0%
$645.36
+16.2%
+18.5%$42.98B$2.86B38.186,132
MKTX
MarketAxess
4.3627 of 5 stars
$220.71
+0.4%
$241.78
+9.5%
+10.0%$8.28B$817.10M38.38740
PHH
PHH
N/A$30.13
+13.4%
N/AN/A$789.41M$2.38M0.0033Lockup Expiration
High Trading Volume
AROW
Arrow Financial
4.5151 of 5 stars
$25.96
+3.5%
$30.00
+15.5%
+5.2%$432.82M$223.07M15.27510News Coverage
Analyst Downgrade
WFC
Wells Fargo & Company
4.7534 of 5 stars
$77.02
+2.1%
$77.98
+1.2%
+38.3%$250.64B$125.40B13.83217,000Trending News
MS
Morgan Stanley
4.6656 of 5 stars
$134.04
+1.0%
$133.62
-0.3%
+46.9%$215.04B$107.29B15.7380,000Trending News

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This page (NASDAQ:IBKR) was last updated on 6/28/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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