MSCI vs. IBKR, ICE, MCO, CME, NDAQ, MKTX, AROW, PHH, PDD, and UBER
Should you be buying MSCI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MSCI include Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Moody's (MCO), CME Group (CME), Nasdaq (NDAQ), MarketAxess (MKTX), Arrow Financial (AROW), PHH (PHH), PDD (PDD), and Uber Technologies (UBER).
MSCI vs.
MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) and Interactive Brokers Group (NASDAQ:IBKR) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
MSCI has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Interactive Brokers Group. Interactive Brokers Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MSCI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MSCI received 238 more outperform votes than Interactive Brokers Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.14% of users gave MSCI an outperform vote while only 57.12% of users gave Interactive Brokers Group an outperform vote.
MSCI has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Interactive Brokers Group has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
MSCI pays an annual dividend of $7.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Interactive Brokers Group pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. MSCI pays out 51.2% 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. MSCI has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years. MSCI is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
MSCI presently has a consensus price target of $649.23, indicating a potential upside of 13.32%. Interactive Brokers Group has a consensus price target of $204.13, indicating a potential downside of 13.33%. Given MSCI's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe MSCI is more favorable than Interactive Brokers Group.
90.0% of MSCI shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.8% of Interactive Brokers Group shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of MSCI shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Interactive Brokers Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
MSCI has a net margin of 38.83% compared to Interactive Brokers Group's net margin of 9.25%. Interactive Brokers Group's return on equity of 5.00% beat MSCI's return on equity.
In the previous week, MSCI had 9 more articles in the media than Interactive Brokers Group. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for MSCI and 23 mentions for Interactive Brokers Group. Interactive Brokers Group's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat MSCI's score of 0.88 indicating that Interactive Brokers Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
MSCI beats Interactive Brokers Group on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:MSCI) was last updated on 2/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff