MCO vs. CME, ICE, IBKR, MSCI, NDAQ, MKTX, AROW, SPGI, EFX, and TRU
Should you be buying Moody's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Moody's include CME Group (CME), Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), MSCI (MSCI), Nasdaq (NDAQ), MarketAxess (MKTX), Arrow Financial (AROW), S&P Global (SPGI), Equifax (EFX), and TransUnion (TRU).
Moody's vs.
Moody's (NYSE:MCO) and CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and valuation.
In the previous week, Moody's and Moody's both had 28 articles in the media. CME Group's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Moody's' score of 0.83 indicating that CME Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CME Group received 118 more outperform votes than Moody's when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.35% of users gave Moody's an outperform vote while only 58.87% of users gave CME Group an outperform vote.
Moody's pays an annual dividend of $3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. CME Group pays an annual dividend of $4.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Moody's pays out 31.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CME Group pays out 48.4% 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. Moody's has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years and CME Group has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years.
CME Group has higher revenue and earnings than Moody's. CME Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Moody's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CME Group has a net margin of 57.34% compared to Moody's' net margin of 29.05%. Moody's' return on equity of 57.97% beat CME Group's return on equity.
Moody's has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CME Group has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
92.1% of Moody's shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of CME Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Moody's shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of CME Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Moody's presently has a consensus price target of $506.14, suggesting a potential upside of 6.39%. CME Group has a consensus price target of $229.27, suggesting a potential downside of 1.48%. Given Moody's' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Moody's is more favorable than CME Group.
Summary
Moody's beats CME Group on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:MCO) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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