IBKR vs. ICE, CME, MCO, MSCI, NDAQ, RJF, JEF, SEIC, MKTX, and AROW
Should you be buying Interactive Brokers Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Interactive Brokers Group include Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), CME Group (CME), Moody's (MCO), MSCI (MSCI), Nasdaq (NDAQ), Raymond James (RJF), Jefferies Financial Group (JEF), SEI Investments (SEIC), MarketAxess (MKTX), and Arrow Financial (AROW).
Interactive Brokers Group (NASDAQ:IBKR) and Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Interactive Brokers Group pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Intercontinental Exchange pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Interactive Brokers Group pays out 17.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Intercontinental Exchange pays out 41.3% 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.
Interactive Brokers Group currently has a consensus target price of $124.00, suggesting a potential downside of 1.37%. Intercontinental Exchange has a consensus target price of $148.29, suggesting a potential upside of 10.74%. Given Intercontinental Exchange's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Intercontinental Exchange is more favorable than Interactive Brokers Group.
Intercontinental Exchange received 530 more outperform votes than Interactive Brokers Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.63% of users gave Intercontinental Exchange an outperform vote while only 55.88% of users gave Interactive Brokers Group an outperform vote.
23.8% of Interactive Brokers Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.3% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of Interactive Brokers Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Intercontinental Exchange has a net margin of 24.24% compared to Interactive Brokers Group's net margin of 7.62%. Intercontinental Exchange's return on equity of 12.76% beat Interactive Brokers Group's return on equity.
Interactive Brokers Group has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intercontinental Exchange has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Intercontinental Exchange had 7 more articles in the media than Interactive Brokers Group. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Intercontinental Exchange and 7 mentions for Interactive Brokers Group. Interactive Brokers Group's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Intercontinental Exchange's score of 0.64 indicating that Interactive Brokers Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
Summary
Intercontinental Exchange beats Interactive Brokers Group on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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