MFI vs. ICE, CME, MCO, IBKR, MSCI, NDAQ, MKTX, AROW, MNDO, and TSRI
Should you be buying MicroFinancial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MicroFinancial include Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), CME Group (CME), Moody's (MCO), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), MSCI (MSCI), Nasdaq (NDAQ), MarketAxess (MKTX), Arrow Financial (AROW), MIND C.T.I. (MNDO), and TSR (TSRI).
MicroFinancial (NASDAQ:MFI) and Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.
Intercontinental Exchange received 717 more outperform votes than MicroFinancial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 74.64% of users gave MicroFinancial an outperform vote while only 72.63% of users gave Intercontinental Exchange an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Intercontinental Exchange had 9 more articles in the media than MicroFinancial. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Intercontinental Exchange and 2 mentions for MicroFinancial. Intercontinental Exchange's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat MicroFinancial's score of 0.00 indicating that Intercontinental Exchange is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
89.3% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are held by institutional investors. 41.1% of MicroFinancial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Intercontinental Exchange shares are held 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.
Intercontinental Exchange has higher revenue and earnings than MicroFinancial.
MicroFinancial presently has a consensus target price of $32.00, indicating a potential upside of 3,319.90%. Intercontinental Exchange has a consensus target price of $148.29, indicating a potential upside of 10.74%. Given MicroFinancial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe MicroFinancial is more favorable than Intercontinental Exchange.
Intercontinental Exchange has a net margin of 24.24% compared to MicroFinancial's net margin of 0.00%. Intercontinental Exchange's return on equity of 12.76% beat MicroFinancial's return on equity.
Summary
Intercontinental Exchange beats MicroFinancial on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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