MKTX vs. AROW, ICE, MCO, CME, IBKR, MSCI, NDAQ, RJF, NMR, and JEF
Should you be buying MarketAxess stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MarketAxess include Arrow Financial (AROW), Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Moody's (MCO), CME Group (CME), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), MSCI (MSCI), Nasdaq (NDAQ), Raymond James (RJF), Nomura (NMR), and Jefferies Financial Group (JEF). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
MarketAxess vs.
Arrow Financial (NASDAQ:AROW) and MarketAxess (NASDAQ:MKTX) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, risk, community ranking and dividends.
MarketAxess has a net margin of 34.32% compared to Arrow Financial's net margin of 15.00%. MarketAxess' return on equity of 20.93% beat Arrow Financial's return on equity.
Arrow Financial has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MarketAxess has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Arrow Financial presently has a consensus target price of $31.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.62%. MarketAxess has a consensus target price of $266.70, indicating a potential upside of 13.54%. Given MarketAxess' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe MarketAxess is more favorable than Arrow Financial.
MarketAxess received 221 more outperform votes than Arrow Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 51.79% of users gave Arrow Financial an outperform vote while only 45.54% of users gave MarketAxess an outperform vote.
Arrow Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. MarketAxess pays an annual dividend of $2.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Arrow Financial pays out 57.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MarketAxess pays out 40.1% 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. MarketAxess has raised its dividend for 16 consecutive years.
46.7% of Arrow Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.0% of MarketAxess shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of Arrow Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of MarketAxess shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
MarketAxess has higher revenue and earnings than Arrow Financial. Arrow Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MarketAxess, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, MarketAxess had 5 more articles in the media than Arrow Financial. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for MarketAxess and 4 mentions for Arrow Financial. Arrow Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat MarketAxess' score of 1.04 indicating that Arrow Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
MarketAxess beats Arrow Financial on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:MKTX) was last updated on 12/18/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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