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$546.73 +4.17 (+0.77%)
Closing price 04/17/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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MSCI vs. CME, ICE, MCO, IBKR, NDAQ, MKTX, AROW, PHH, UBER, and PDD

Should you be buying MSCI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MSCI include CME Group (CME), Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Moody's (MCO), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), Nasdaq (NDAQ), MarketAxess (MKTX), Arrow Financial (AROW), PHH (PHH), Uber Technologies (UBER), and PDD (PDD).

MSCI vs.

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

CME Group presently has a consensus price target of $247.47, suggesting a potential downside of 5.74%. MSCI has a consensus price target of $643.92, suggesting a potential upside of 17.78%. Given MSCI's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe MSCI is more favorable than CME Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
CME Group
4 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.13
MSCI
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
11 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.79

CME Group pays an annual dividend of $5.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. MSCI pays an annual dividend of $7.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. CME Group pays out 51.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MSCI pays out 51.2% 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. MSCI has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years.

In the previous week, CME Group had 8 more articles in the media than MSCI. MarketBeat recorded 56 mentions for CME Group and 48 mentions for MSCI. CME Group's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat MSCI's score of 0.76 indicating that CME Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
CME Group
31 Very Positive mention(s)
5 Positive mention(s)
14 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
MSCI
19 Very Positive mention(s)
11 Positive mention(s)
13 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

CME Group has a net margin of 57.52% compared to MSCI's net margin of 38.83%. CME Group's return on equity of 13.62% beat MSCI's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
CME Group57.52% 13.62% 2.81%
MSCI 38.83%-156.08%22.03%

87.8% of CME Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.0% of MSCI shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of CME Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of MSCI shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

CME Group received 120 more outperform votes than MSCI when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.03% of users gave MSCI an outperform vote while only 58.67% of users gave CME Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
CME GroupOutperform Votes
670
58.67%
Underperform Votes
472
41.33%
MSCIOutperform Votes
550
66.03%
Underperform Votes
283
33.97%

CME Group has a beta of 0.43, meaning that its stock price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MSCI has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
CME Group$6.13B15.43$3.53B$9.6727.15
MSCI$2.86B14.86$1.11B$14.0638.89

Summary

MSCI beats CME Group on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.

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MSCI vs. The Competition

MetricMSCIBusiness services IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$42.45B$19.39B$10.83B$18.41B
Dividend Yield1.36%2.92%5.97%4.20%
P/E Ratio38.8932.0621.6731.07
Price / Sales14.866.9425.4326.55
Price / Cash31.8932.3017.6117.53
Price / Book-45.184.932.564.30
Net Income$1.11B$681.55M$1.03B$1.02B
7 Day Performance0.82%1.00%1.88%1.42%
1 Month Performance-3.83%-8.95%-3.66%-7.32%
1 Year Performance8.17%13.84%535.25%2.27%

MSCI Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MSCI
MSCI
4.7107 of 5 stars
$546.73
+0.8%
$643.92
+17.8%
+6.8%$42.45B$2.86B38.894,760Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
CME
CME Group
3.9845 of 5 stars
$264.13
+1.0%
$247.47
-6.3%
+26.0%$95.18B$6.13B27.313,460Upcoming Earnings
ICE
Intercontinental Exchange
4.1635 of 5 stars
$159.94
+2.6%
$182.47
+14.1%
+21.1%$91.89B$11.76B33.4612,920Insider Trade
Positive News
MCO
Moody's
4.6812 of 5 stars
$437.83
+2.2%
$524.86
+19.9%
+13.0%$78.76B$7.09B38.8514,400Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Positive News
IBKR
Interactive Brokers Group
4.6898 of 5 stars
$174.69
+1.9%
$195.88
+12.1%
+46.0%$73.82B$9.32B24.742,820Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Stock Split
Short Interest ↓
NDAQ
Nasdaq
4.6426 of 5 stars
$72.88
+1.9%
$85.63
+17.5%
+20.3%$41.92B$7.40B37.966,380Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Upgrade
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
MKTX
MarketAxess
4.6358 of 5 stars
$222.00
+0.1%
$252.11
+13.6%
+11.5%$8.37B$817.10M30.54740Analyst Revision
Positive News
AROW
Arrow Financial
4.6701 of 5 stars
$23.90
-1.0%
$31.00
+29.7%
+9.4%$399.56M$139.81M13.50510Analyst Downgrade
Gap Up
PHH
PHH
N/A$12.81
-1.3%
N/AN/A$335.62M$2.38M0.0033Gap Up
UBER
Uber Technologies
4.7999 of 5 stars
$73.36
+1.5%
$89.97
+22.6%
+4.7%$153.45B$43.98B16.0932,800Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
PDD
PDD
4.652 of 5 stars
$95.60
+5.6%
$169.91
+77.7%
-17.4%$131.53B$393.84B9.3412,992

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This page (NYSE:MSCI) was last updated on 4/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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