ICE vs. IBKR, MCO, CME, NDAQ, MSCI, MKTX, AROW, PHH, TW, and LPLA
Should you be buying Intercontinental Exchange stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Intercontinental Exchange include Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), Moody's (MCO), CME Group (CME), Nasdaq (NDAQ), 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.
Intercontinental Exchange vs.
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) and Interactive Brokers Group (NASDAQ:IBKR) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Intercontinental Exchange has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Interactive Brokers Group has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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 $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Intercontinental Exchange pays out 40.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Interactive Brokers Group pays out 14.2% 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.
89.3% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.8% of Interactive Brokers Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Interactive Brokers Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
Intercontinental Exchange presently has a consensus price target of $178.80, indicating a potential upside of 6.41%. Interactive Brokers Group has a consensus price target of $204.13, indicating a potential downside of 6.66%. Given Intercontinental Exchange's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Intercontinental Exchange is more favorable than Interactive Brokers Group.
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.
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 57.12% of users gave Interactive Brokers Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Intercontinental Exchange had 31 more articles in the media than Interactive Brokers Group. MarketBeat recorded 46 mentions for Intercontinental Exchange and 15 mentions for Interactive Brokers Group. Interactive Brokers Group's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Intercontinental Exchange's score of 1.22 indicating that Interactive Brokers Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Intercontinental Exchange beats Interactive Brokers Group on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ICE) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
