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NDAQ vs. IBKR, ICE, MCO, CME, MSCI, MKTX, AROW, PHH, TW, and LPLA

Should you be buying Nasdaq stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nasdaq include Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Moody's (MCO), CME Group (CME), 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.

Nasdaq vs.

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

Nasdaq has higher revenue and earnings than Interactive Brokers Group. Interactive Brokers Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nasdaq, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Interactive Brokers Group$5.19B17.93$755M$7.0631.17
Nasdaq$7.40B6.33$1.12B$1.9242.45

Interactive Brokers Group pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Nasdaq pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Interactive Brokers Group pays out 14.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Nasdaq pays out 50.0% 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. Nasdaq has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Nasdaq is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Interactive Brokers Group currently has a consensus price target of $204.13, indicating a potential downside of 7.24%. Nasdaq has a consensus price target of $86.88, indicating a potential upside of 6.60%. Given Nasdaq's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Nasdaq is more favorable than Interactive Brokers Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Interactive Brokers Group
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.88
Nasdaq
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
14 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.78

In the previous week, Nasdaq had 3 more articles in the media than Interactive Brokers Group. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Nasdaq and 15 mentions for Interactive Brokers Group. Nasdaq's average media sentiment score of 1.48 beat Interactive Brokers Group's score of 1.26 indicating that Nasdaq is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Interactive Brokers Group
13 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Nasdaq
16 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Nasdaq has a net margin of 15.10% compared to Interactive Brokers Group's net margin of 9.25%. Nasdaq's return on equity of 14.82% beat Interactive Brokers Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Interactive Brokers Group9.25% 5.00% 0.55%
Nasdaq 15.10%14.82%5.37%

23.8% of Interactive Brokers Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.5% of Nasdaq shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of Interactive Brokers Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Nasdaq shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Interactive Brokers Group has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nasdaq has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Nasdaq received 561 more outperform votes than Interactive Brokers Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.66% of users gave Nasdaq an outperform vote while only 57.12% of users gave Interactive Brokers Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Interactive Brokers GroupOutperform Votes
309
57.12%
Underperform Votes
232
42.88%
NasdaqOutperform Votes
870
69.66%
Underperform Votes
379
30.34%

Summary

Nasdaq beats Interactive Brokers Group on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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NDAQ vs. The Competition

MetricNasdaqSecurity & commodity brokers IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$46.79B$28.29B$11.66B$9.02B
Dividend Yield1.16%1.37%5.57%3.85%
P/E Ratio42.4019.0824.2218.96
Price / Sales6.336.1926.3177.29
Price / Cash21.1521.2318.1337.47
Price / Book4.185.002.624.69
Net Income$1.12B$1.00B$1.03B$245.69M
7 Day Performance0.73%1.54%-0.98%-1.85%
1 Month Performance2.04%3.63%0.63%-1.54%
1 Year Performance45.43%11.60%15.73%14.60%

Nasdaq Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NDAQ
Nasdaq
4.6649 of 5 stars
$81.07
-1.8%
$86.88
+7.2%
+48.6%$46.60B$7.40B42.228,525Dividend Announcement
Positive News
IBKR
Interactive Brokers Group
4.0033 of 5 stars
$234.12
-0.3%
$204.13
-12.8%
+118.7%$98.92B$5.19B33.162,932Positive News
ICE
Intercontinental Exchange
4.5948 of 5 stars
$166.85
-1.0%
$178.80
+7.2%
+22.4%$95.80B$11.76B34.9113,222Insider Trade
MCO
Moody's
4.7056 of 5 stars
$522.76
-0.9%
$522.62
0.0%
+36.1%$94.72B$5.92B47.7415,151Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Positive News
CME
CME Group
4.5765 of 5 stars
$245.48
-1.9%
$234.13
-4.6%
+17.7%$88.46B$5.58B25.813,565Analyst Forecast
Positive News
MSCI
MSCI
4.9173 of 5 stars
$572.78
+0.1%
$649.23
+13.3%
+3.3%$44.89B$2.86B40.745,794
MKTX
MarketAxess
4.8172 of 5 stars
$193.49
+1.1%
$254.78
+31.7%
-11.3%$7.29B$817.10M26.61740Analyst Revision
Positive News
AROW
Arrow Financial
4.5578 of 5 stars
$26.97
-0.6%
$31.00
+14.9%
+7.9%$451.48M$223.07M15.24510
PHH
PHH
N/A$5.26
-5.2%
N/AN/A$137.81M$1.94M0.0033News Coverage
Gap Down
TW
Tradeweb Markets
2.8336 of 5 stars
$127.03
-1.0%
$138.50
+9.0%
+26.7%$30.01B$1.73B54.521,179
LPLA
LPL Financial
4.6581 of 5 stars
$373.98
+0.4%
$379.17
+1.4%
+48.3%$28.00B$12.39B26.648,400

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This page (NASDAQ:NDAQ) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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