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Nasdaq (NDAQ) Competitors

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$77.70 +0.32 (+0.41%)
(As of 12/20/2024 05:45 PM ET)

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

Should you be buying Nasdaq stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nasdaq include Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Moody's (MCO), CME Group (CME), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), MSCI (MSCI), MarketAxess (MKTX), Arrow Financial (AROW), Tradeweb Markets (TW), T. Rowe Price Group (TROW), and LPL Financial (LPLA). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Nasdaq vs.

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

72.5% of Nasdaq shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.3% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Nasdaq shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Nasdaq presently has a consensus price target of $82.40, suggesting a potential upside of 6.05%. Intercontinental Exchange has a consensus price target of $175.07, suggesting a potential upside of 16.47%. Given Intercontinental Exchange's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Intercontinental Exchange is more favorable than Nasdaq.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Nasdaq
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
12 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.71
Intercontinental Exchange
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
13 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.87

Nasdaq received 23 more outperform votes than Intercontinental Exchange when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.02% of users gave Intercontinental Exchange an outperform vote while only 69.57% of users gave Nasdaq an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
NasdaqOutperform Votes
862
69.57%
Underperform Votes
377
30.43%
Intercontinental ExchangeOutperform Votes
839
72.02%
Underperform Votes
326
27.98%

Nasdaq pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Intercontinental Exchange pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Nasdaq pays out 57.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Intercontinental Exchange pays out 42.7% 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 raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Nasdaq is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Intercontinental Exchange has higher revenue and earnings than Nasdaq. Intercontinental Exchange 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
Nasdaq$7.02B6.36$1.06B$1.6746.53
Intercontinental Exchange$11.40B7.57$2.37B$4.2235.62

In the previous week, Nasdaq had 2 more articles in the media than Intercontinental Exchange. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Nasdaq and 12 mentions for Intercontinental Exchange. Nasdaq's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Intercontinental Exchange's score of 0.58 indicating that Nasdaq is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Nasdaq
7 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Intercontinental Exchange
3 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Intercontinental Exchange has a net margin of 21.31% compared to Nasdaq's net margin of 13.67%. Nasdaq's return on equity of 14.56% beat Intercontinental Exchange's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Nasdaq13.67% 14.56% 5.15%
Intercontinental Exchange 21.31%12.75%2.50%

Nasdaq has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intercontinental Exchange has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Intercontinental Exchange beats Nasdaq on 13 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$44.66B$26.49B$11.26B$9.08B
Dividend Yield1.21%1.41%5.77%4.23%
P/E Ratio46.5320.3726.7517.18
Price / Sales6.366.2736.48116.99
Price / Cash26.3222.7618.6537.86
Price / Book4.144.932.764.78
Net Income$1.06B$909.38M$1.04B$225.60M
7 Day Performance-3.02%-3.22%-2.89%-1.23%
1 Month Performance-4.04%-4.52%-2.90%3.36%
1 Year Performance38.53%5.31%11.58%16.60%

Nasdaq Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NDAQ
Nasdaq
4.6376 of 5 stars
$77.70
+0.4%
$82.40
+6.0%
+40.9%$44.66B$7.02B46.538,525Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
ICE
Intercontinental Exchange
4.6132 of 5 stars
$155.22
+0.1%
$175.07
+12.8%
+22.8%$89.12B$11.40B36.8713,222Insider Trade
MCO
Moody's
4.3874 of 5 stars
$490.27
+0.3%
$501.46
+2.3%
+21.9%$88.84B$6.90B44.6615,151Analyst Forecast
CME
CME Group
4.5331 of 5 stars
$237.24
+0.0%
$226.20
-4.7%
+13.0%$85.49B$6.04B25.003,565Analyst Forecast
IBKR
Interactive Brokers Group
3.4587 of 5 stars
$181.12
+0.9%
$166.13
-8.3%
+116.0%$76.53B$8.99B27.402,932Analyst Forecast
MSCI
MSCI
4.7214 of 5 stars
$620.33
-0.8%
$634.58
+2.3%
+12.0%$48.62B$2.80B41.045,794Analyst Upgrade
MKTX
MarketAxess
4.7901 of 5 stars
$236.64
+1.2%
$266.70
+12.7%
-17.3%$8.92B$811.94M31.67740Analyst Forecast
AROW
Arrow Financial
3.7977 of 5 stars
$31.51
+1.2%
$31.00
-1.6%
+2.1%$527.45M$138.99M15.91537Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
TW
Tradeweb Markets
3.9669 of 5 stars
$133.40
+1.4%
$132.69
-0.5%
+48.1%$31.51B$1.34B62.921,179Analyst Upgrade
News Coverage
TROW
T. Rowe Price Group
4.4798 of 5 stars
$120.31
+0.6%
$117.09
-2.7%
+9.6%$26.73B$6.46B13.087,906Analyst Upgrade
LPLA
LPL Financial
4.6939 of 5 stars
$330.11
0.0%
$305.17
-7.6%
+48.0%$24.72B$11.52B24.838,400Analyst Upgrade

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This page (NASDAQ:NDAQ) was last updated on 12/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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