ICE vs. CME, NDAQ, TW, TROW, LPLA, SMFG, EQIX, SAN, MCO, and BN
Should you be buying Intercontinental Exchange stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Intercontinental Exchange include CME Group (CME), Nasdaq (NDAQ), Tradeweb Markets (TW), T. Rowe Price Group (TROW), LPL Financial (LPLA), Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), Equinix (EQIX), Banco Santander (SAN), Moody's (MCO), and Brookfield (BN). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) and CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Intercontinental Exchange currently has a consensus price target of $147.92, indicating a potential upside of 6.88%. CME Group has a consensus price target of $217.80, indicating a potential upside of 2.19%. Given Intercontinental Exchange's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Intercontinental Exchange is more favorable than CME Group.
Intercontinental Exchange received 165 more outperform votes than CME Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.67% of users gave Intercontinental Exchange an outperform vote while only 59.84% of users gave CME Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, CME Group had 18 more articles in the media than Intercontinental Exchange. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for CME Group and 18 mentions for Intercontinental Exchange. CME Group's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Intercontinental Exchange's score of 0.81 indicating that CME Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Intercontinental Exchange has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CME Group has a beta of 0.48, meaning that its stock price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.
CME Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Intercontinental Exchange. CME 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 pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. CME Group pays an annual dividend of $4.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Intercontinental Exchange pays out 41.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CME Group pays out 52.3% 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.
CME Group has a net margin of 56.84% compared to Intercontinental Exchange's net margin of 24.24%. Intercontinental Exchange's return on equity of 12.76% beat CME Group's return on equity.
89.3% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of CME Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of CME Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Intercontinental Exchange beats CME Group on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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